Spray Paint

Here are my 2 spray images of marilyn monroe. To create this I put a portrait image of Marilyn Monroe into Photoshop, and then made the image black and white. I then went onto the filters and selected the cutout filter. I made sure there were 2 shades and 2 levels so that I had two different images that were black. I then printed them out as 2 separate images, and cut out the black in the image using a scalpel, so that I could spray the black parts of the image with spray paint. Once I had done this I scanned them in and placed them into Photoshop.

Here I have taken both sprays into Photoshop and used the threshold to make sure there was definite black and white in the images. I then started to take out white in the image so I was able to change the black colours.

I then took the spray image that had the most black in it and made it a purple that was fairly dark.

Then I took the spray image that had less black in it, and made it a lighter pink.

I selected this layer that had the lighter colour and set it to multiply.

This is the outcome of setting the lighter layer to multiply, it meant that both colours merged together, creating a darker colour and more texture within the design.

I then added a layer of light pink behind both spray images to create a background for my image.

Here is my final spray image. I really enjoyed using this technique to design an image and I think it would be a really good way to create a front cover image for my magazine or a good way to create different types of text for other designs.