butterflyTextural wanking to its finest max.
My aim was to... well, use as many Photoshop layers as possible, just to see what the hell I can come up with. The whole thing consists of pictures from the same series of photographs of a GiRLPOP issue, so the theme is already got down. The outfit Ayaya has in there is pretty colorful, with a mix of layers and textures (in the fashion sense), which really complains well with the theme that I picked.
First was to use the 2-page-spread of her standing in front of a fence as the BG, very high contrast, almost thershold'd. Then her close up head pic which I only cropped a chunk off and sits on the lower right. After that is the main Aya picture which I didn't do much except having other random textures on top. Both these 2 layers are positioned such that the perspective of the fence BG is kept intact.
Her clothes has a butterfly pin thing which I really liked. It is magenta, and then there is the camo top she is wearing which is cyan; I sort of took the essence of both and did a angled-bursh of the butterfly stencil, and used the same color scheme.
Typography is meant to be quite subtle, since the composition of the thing is already pretty crammed, with saturated colors and all. So that is that dodge layer. Man, I don't know, I probably put like 20 some textural layers with 40 other individual adjustment layers just to fine tune everything that way.You have no idea how big that PSD file is...
Oh yeah, the notable little part though is the tiled pattern at the back which looks like a heart shaped crest; it is in fact the graphic on the Momoiro Kataomoi CD art. I used it just to echo the heart-ish jewlery ornaments on the front of Aya's hat.
Finally, I outputed 2 more color combinations. One which is the "sakura" version, with magenta scheme. Another is just black and white in almost stencil street art style.
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aya007 2005-04-09
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