Jasper James

Jasper James Workshop

For this workshop I was asked to create a piece of work inspired by Jasper James.

Jasper James is famous for creating a silhouette of his photography and making it transparent, then putting his new silhouetted image over the top of a city scape.

I began by picking an image to begin with, I chose this one of me and Hayley:

I firstly opened this image up into photoshop and, using the magnetic lasso tool, traced around our bodies to dispose of the background. I copied and pasted the part of the photo i needed into a new document, photo size 8 by 10, merging the two layers by clicking Layers - Merge Visible. I then, once again, used the magnetic lasso tool to go around the edge of my image and deleted it leaving the document with the silhouetted version of my image. I saved this as a PSD file and then opened my previously saved city scape file into a new document. I then placed my saved silhouette image onto this document by clicking File - Place. I edited the layers fill opacity making it slightly transparent by selecting layer - layer style - blending options and edited the fill opacity. I then cropped my image to change the composition using the crop tool. This created an image similar to that of Jasper James.

These are my final outcomes