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Five Ways to Blend Images and Techniques for Digital Artists

teacher avatar Christine Sherborne, Artist and Author

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome to Class Four

      1:45

    • 2.

      Lesson One The Masked Woman

      6:47

    • 3.

      Lesson Two The Dragon

      5:56

    • 4.

      Lesson Three The Concept Cave

      11:54

    • 5.

      Lesson Four Japanese Woman

      10:12

    • 6.

      Lesson Five Romantic Lady with Fan

      7:43

    • 7.

      Class Four Wrap Up

      1:30

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About This Class

iColorama is an amazing app for Procreate and other Digitalartists. It's a wonderful addition to enhance your digital artwork with thousands of effects and adjustments available.

Why take this class?
Procreate and digital art lovers can use this app as a creative accompaniment to make their artwork even more exciting and use one piece of art to transform into many variations. IColorama is a powerful tool with many effects, brushes, styles and textures. This class will take you through some of these iColorama tools and give you an overview of many others.

Amazing Results!
The various techniques can change your image into something extraordinary as you learn to use each
part of the program. This will give you additional images to upload to Print on Demand sites or to use for your own satisfaction.

What you will learn
Because there are thousands of ways you can manipulate and change your artwork I intend to break
down the techniques into several classes. In this class you will learn a five techniques to blend images in a variety of ways. The finished pictures will be;

*The Masked Woman
*The Dragon
*The Concept Cave
*The Japanese woman
*Romantic Lady with Fan

Your Creations

In each of the classes I will encourage you to use your existing artwork to change and transform. If you prefer to learn the techniques using my images, you find them in the class resources section to
download.

Welcome to my fourth class using iColorama to Transform your Artwork into Amazing Images.

In this class I am using five ways to create five pictures. Using the blend technique to put an interesting image together and then using other techniques to transform them.

All levels of digital artists will benefit from this class.


I’ll be working on producing the next class  so Please be sure to subscribe to my courses so you will be notified when a new class becomes available.

In the class downloads I have included some of my images but I encourage you to use the techniques on your own artwork.

I’m looking forward to seeing the amazing images you create.

If you can find time to leave a review it would be much appreciated.

This course is ideal for procreate artists. and any digital artist or photographer to learn to make the most of their images. I take you through step by step making the course suitable for any level.

Intrigued?

Well, let’s get started and have some fun. At the end of the course I would love to see your amazing completed artwork.

Meet Your Teacher

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Christine Sherborne

Artist and Author

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Hi, I’m Christine Sherborne, an English ex-pat living in Australia. I attended Walsall School of Art UK and taught Art for a while before moving to New Zealand. Here I built a successful packaging business and did all the design work myself, which I enjoyed.

I then became a writer and wrote two novels, a self help book and then went on to record nineteen audios for Audible.com which are mainly meditations and hypnosis guides.

Returning to my first love, art, I have my artwork on Fine Art America, Etsy store, Society6 etc… Now I’m enjoying creating Skillshare classes.

Please visit my website to enjoy my mind, body and spirit articles to help my readers navigate our complex world with sage advice I’ve researched over the years. www.colourstory... See full profile

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1. Welcome to Class Four: Welcome to class for in the eye color armor theories. If you're new to this amazing app, I encourage you to take class one, which explains the basic instructions. This app is an ideal accompaniment to procreate and other digital artists and only costs around sixth US dollars once only. In this class, we'll begin with the masked woman, which features the mosaic effect. Next, we'll create the dragon using the edge flow technique. The concept cave is ideal for a game artists and utilizes the coherence effect. This delicate Japanese woman showcases the watercolor and sketch technique. And finally, the romantic lady with fan is achieved with a painterly effect. I think you'll enjoy creating these pieces of art with mine or your own images. Please tap the Follow button top-left so I can let you know a future courses. I would appreciate a review and would love to see your creations uploaded to class projects. So without further ado, let's start less than one. 2. Lesson One The Masked Woman : Welcome to Lesson one. In this lesson, we will blend the flower image with a mass woman. The techniques used are blend, coherence, charm, a mosaic. So let's begin. Open up Eichler on bringing the flower image, the library, go into form and mirror. So we've flipped the image over to the left-hand side. So saved the adjustment. Then we're going to go into style and look for flow. Go down to the window in the bottom right-hand corner. And select preset for safety adjustment. We're going to go into adjust and tone lab. Look at the presets. I think we're going to choose number two. So save that adjustment. Now we want to save the flower to our camera roll. If I go to the top right-hand corner and save to camera roll, because we're going to bring this image in later. Now go to the top left hand corner and import image from the library. Going to import the masks woman. Now we'll go to style and coherence window at the bottom. And we're going to choose number two. We're going to save that adjustment. Now we're going to go into turn. Look along the second menu to find charm. Tap the window in the bottom right-hand corner. And you can try different ones. But for this image, I chose number for, preset for. So I'm going to save that adjustment. Now we're going to go into effects and blend. This is where we bring in the flower image, going to tap the picture icon in the bottom right. And we're going to bring in the flipped flower image. Now we're going to turn down the feature to about 50 per cent. Tap the circle mask on the left-hand side. In the new menu that comes up, tap the plus sign. And then with your finger, moves the mask over the face, expand it slightly. And we're just going to raise the blur radius. So it's a little bit softer. Save to adjustments. Then we're going to go into style. And in the second menu, find mosaic. Tap the window in the bottom right-hand corner. You can see the different mosaic looks that you can choose from. For this one, I've chosen preset eight. I think that looks quite nice. Now we're going to press the circle mask again on the left-hand side. Press Plus. I'm going to move this circle over the face again and increase the blur radius. Saved two adjustments. Now as usual, we'll put a texture on. So go to texture and go to paper. The window in the bottom right-hand corner. Look at the different textures. For this one I think will choose Preset five. Going to reduce the size a little, put the intensity up a little, saved to adjustments. Now let's just review the history. Previously we bought in the flower image, flipped it, adjusted it, and save to camera roll. So in this part, we bought in the picture of the mass woman. Then we use coherence. And we change the color with charm. We bought in the flower image. And then we put the mosaic effect on. And lastly, the texture effects. That's our whole picture done. So go to the top right-hand corner and save to camera roll. I think you'll agree that's quite a pleasing effect. So now we'll go on to lesson two. 3. Lesson Two The Dragon: Welcome to lesson two. In this lesson, we are going to blend three images together. The dragon, the lantern, and the temple. The techniques used are at flow and blend, and then finishing off with a sparkly texture. So let's get started. Open up Eichler armor. Tap the picture icon and import the dragon picture. Now we're going to go to Style. And at flow. Press the preset window in the bottom right. And we're going to leave it on number one. On the bottom menu, we're going to change the Sigma and the Sigma p. Further going to change the sigma all to around about 2.5 and the Sigma P to about 12. Now we're going to save that to adjustments. Now we're going to go into effects and blend. Tap the picture in the bottom right, and import the lantern. Now we're going to reduce the feature quite a lot. And I think we'll move the London picture up to the right-hand side. And we're going to reduce the opacity. Now we're going to go to the brush mask and choose a soft brush. We're just going to go around the sharp edges and remove the London picture that covers the dragon. Just got a hint of the lanterns, they're going to save the adjustment. Now we're going to go back into effects and blend again. Now we're going to go into the picture icon on the bottom right and tap the temple. Now we're going to use our fingers to reduce the size and put the temple down in the left-hand corner. Going to reduce the opacity. And then we're going to choose the brush mask again. She's the soft airbrush. And then we're just going to lightly go around the edges of the temporal picture. So it blends in, I think, will reduce the opacity a little bit more. Just want it to be a hint in the background. Save the adjustment. Now we're going to go into texture and all the way along until we see sparkles. Tap the window in the bottom right-hand corner, the presets choose number 11. Now we're going to rotate. We have the proper orientation. Now we're going to spread the sparkles with our fingers. That's looking quite good. I think we'll use the brush mask. Just a little over the dragon. That's how pitcher finished. You've got a hint of the Chinese London and a hint as the Chinese temple that makes a blend of three images. So all done. Save to camera roll. Okay, let's review our work. Fresh. The history icon on the top left-hand corner. Number one, we bought in our dragon image. Then we change the look of the dragon image with upflow. Then we went into blend and added in the lanterns. And then we went into blend again an added in the Chinese temple. And finally, we put a sparkle effect on there. So that's the picture all finished. I will move on to lesson three. 4. Lesson Three The Concept Cave: Welcome to lesson three. In this lesson, we will create a concept environment. The techniques include blending three objects, de-noise, the grain, coherence and tone. This process could be useful for fantasy character artist who needs a quick concept background. So let's begin. Open up Eichler armor. We're going to do this concept cave in three different pictures. So first of all, we'll tap the picture icon, import the dragon. Now we're going to go to adjust and turn lab. Tap the window in the bottom right-hand corner and choose number 13. And save two adjustments. Next, we're going to go into effects and the noise. And we're going to choose the grain. That gives us a much softer effect. Save that to adjustments. And we're going to go into style and coherence. The window at the bottom. And we're going to choose number to save to adjustments. Then we're going to go into tone unmuted window at the bottom, we're going to choose number one. Then we're going to change the Gamma to about 30% and save the adjustment. Now that's all the changes we're going to make with the dragon. So we're going to save to the camera roll. But this time we must save it as a PNG. So we have no background on the picture. Next we're going to work on the eyes. So tap the picture icon and import the eye image. Now we're going to go to adjust equal to the window in the bottom right-hand corner. And choose number six. So that brightens the eye up quite a bit. And we're going to save that to adjustments. Next, we're going to go into style and painterly tap the window at the bottom right-hand corner and go right the way down to the end of that menu and choose painter HQ. And that's the adjustments made to the eye. So we're going to save this as a PNG to our camera roll. Now we're going to go to the Window icon on the top left and import the cave. Now we're going to make some adjustments to the cave picture. So go to adjust and tone lab, tap the window. And we're going to find number 16. Share that brightens up the picture quiet a bit. Save two adjustments. Now we're going to go to style and coherence. Tap the window in the bottom right and choose number to save two adjustments. Next, we're going to go into effects and blend. And this is where we bring in the dragon and the I. To start with, we'll bring in the eye. So tap the picture icon on the bottom right and choose the eye that we've made the adjustments too. Use your fingers to reduce the size and place it around about there. Now we're going to go into the brush mask. Going to choose a brush. The basic number one. I make the brush size quite small. Just going to gradually fit that into the window. Make the breast as small as you can. And then we're going to just uncover the window. So it looks as if the eye is behind the window. If you go over the eye in places that you don't want, you can always bring the eye picture back by tapping this icon on the brush mask menu. It will restore the places that you've gone over. Back to the brush. It's a little bit fiddly this part. But you can keep changing between the, the brush and the restore as often as you like until you get it about right? I think that's about it. If you want, you can tap the zoom and make the eye bigger. Tap it again. And just tidy up. Tap off the brush mask. Tap the zoom. Moves the picture back down. Tap the Zoom. Are we going to change the sliders at the bottom? We're going to put the feature on 90 and the opacity down to 70. I think we still need a little more masking on the eye. So I'm going to go back into the brush mask and just tidy It's a little bit more. Now we're going to save that to adjustments. Now we're going to bring in the dragon. So go to effects and blend again. Tap the picture icon in the bottom right. We're going to bring in the dragon that we previously saved. Use your fingers to move the dragon. Make sure you've brushed Mask is off. We'll put the dragon, the bat there so it looks as if the eye is looking up towards the dragon. Now we're going to reduce the feature because it's a little bit Bryce to 60. That looks much better than we going to save the adjustment. Have a little look at the history. We bought in the cave picture. We changed the tone. Use coherence, bought in the eye. And finally finished with the dragon. So that's our picture finished. We're going to save it as a J peg to our camera roll. Now this is great for concept artists, especially if you do fantasy figures and you just want a quick background. I think this will be an ideal technique to use. So now we'll move on to lesson four. 5. Lesson Four Japanese Woman: Welcome to lesson four. In this lesson, we will blend three images together and the techniques used will be watercolor sketch. Then to finish off, we'll put a bokeh effect on the picture or the pleasing texture. So here we go. Open up eye color on there. Go to the picture icon on the top left hand corner and import the image as the Japanese lady. Now we're going to go into style and find edges. Go to the window in the bottom right-hand corner. And from that menu, choose number eight. Now we're going to use this picture later. So we were not going to save two adjustments. We're going to save directly to our camera roll. Now we're going to go to the picture icon again and bringing the image of the lady. Going to go to Style water. The window in the bottom right. I'm going to go right the way down to the bottom and choose 16. This gives us a really pleasing watercolor effect. Now we're going to reduce the opacity too. At this time we will say as an adjustment. Now go to effects and blend. The picture icon on the bottom right. Tap that. And we're going to bring in the sketch that we previously saved. Now, going to turn the feature down to twenty-five percent, the opacity down to 90. And that gives us a nice sketch effects around the Japanese lady. Going to save to adjustments. Then we're going to go back into blend. The picture icon on the bottom right. And we're going to import cherry blossom. Now with the fingers, reduce the size and position this around about there. We're going to turn the feature down to 60 and the opacity to 75. Now tap the brush mask on the left. Tap the brush and choose the basic one. She's the first brush at the top. Reduce the brush size quite a lot. And then gently mask around the blossom. Removes the hard edges. Just like that. Save two adjustments. Now we have to save this also to the camera roll. Go to the picture icon in the top left hand corner and import that the image that you've just saved. Now we're going to go into effect some blend again. The picture icon bottom right. We're going to bring in the picture of the Japanese lady's head. Usual fingers to reduce the size and position the head. I think that's about right. Turn the feature down to 80. The opacity to 80. Tap the brush mask on the left and check you're still on that basic brush. Reduce the brush size and gently mascots the parts of the picture that we don't want to get closer in the Zoom. And there's a picture of an ad. So we've got a clearer view of the lady's head. Tap the Zoom again to set the possession and gently go around the image. Removing all the unwanted parts of the picture. Tap the brush mask again to tap it off. Tap soon to put it back into position and save the adjustment. Now we're going to go into texture and Bokeh. Rotate the bokeh around so it's the right orientation. And spread it to the edge of the picture. Tap the window in the bottom rise, and look at all the different brokers. But we're going to choose Preset ten. Now we're going to reduce the opacity to 50 per cent. Now using the brush mask sets again on number one, small brush size, I'm going to just gently remove the bokeh from the figures there. That's about it. So we're going to save two adjustments. Now we're going to go into tone. And Postel. Click the window in the bottom right, and choose preset to. That gives us a nice color. Now we're going to save that picture directly to the camera roll. Go to the top left-hand picture icon and import the image that you've just saved. Now to finish off, we're going to pause a nice texture on the picture. So go to texture and paper. Go down to the window and choose Preset five or whichever one you like That looks pleasing to you. Reduce the size. Just a little bit. There. That's all finished our Japanese scene. So go to the top right-hand corner and save your finished project. I hope you enjoyed this lesson and now we'll move on to the final lesson. Number five. 6. Lesson Five Romantic Lady with Fan: Welcome to lesson five. This romantic lady is made up of three blended images and uses watercolor, crop, and painterly techniques. These images are taken from museum sites. And our marks CC, which means Creative Commons, which is copyright free. Creative Commons and museum sites are a good source for artistic inspiration. Just make sure to search and use images mark CC only. Okay, let's make our lady open up eye color on top the picture icon in the top left-hand corner. And we're going to start off by bringing in the West Area. Now we're going to go to Style and water. Going to choose Presets. Number three from the window in the bottom right. And then we're going to put the opacity down to 50 per cent and the edge down to 35. Now we're going to save this picture directly to our camera roll to bring in to use later. So tapped the top right, save to camera roll. Now we're going to tap the picture icon in the top left and bringing the image of the lady. Going to start by cropping the image Dan. You'll find crop in form. And crop just moves the edges in. That looks about right. So I'm going to save it to adjustments. Now we're going to import the fan. We go into effect some bland. Tuck the window in the bottom right-hand corner and bringing the fan from your picture. I tap zoom and bring the picture in so you can see the whole picture. Tap zoom again. Now moves a fan to the size you want. And the position you want. That looks about right? So we're going to save that adjustment. Now, going to style and painterly tap the window in the bottom right, and choose the fourth one down. That's marked paint. That gives us a nice soft image. Save two adjustments. Now go back into his facts and blend. We're going to import the garden picture that we previously saved. Now turn the opacity down so you can see the lady underneath and tap the brush mask. Reduce the brush size. Tap the brush and choose number one, basic. Now, with your Apple pencil, remove the exterior garden from off the lady and off the fan. I put the opacity up and you'll see, it will show you bits that you've missed. Just go over it again, making sure that the fan and the lady is completely clear. Gone a bit too far there. So I'm going to tap the eraser and put that back in again. I'm going to tap the brush and the Zoom. I've got a little bit more control. Mask. Add a little bit more. Tap the brush mask off, tap the Zoom and moves back in. Zoom off the brush mask on again, and just make sure little bit there on the eye. We've masked all of the wrist area covering the lady. Tap the brush mask off, and save two adjustments. Now we're going to go into texture and paper. Tap the window in the bottom right, and look at the different paper textures. In this instance, I've chosen number 25. I've put the size that's about 80. And the intensity up slightly. That gives us quite a nice texture for this painting. Going to save two adjustments. I will just have a look at the history. Started off with this picture. We cropped it. We added in the fan. Then we put the painterly effect on there. Then we added in the hysteria garden. Then finally, we added a paper texture. And that's our picture complete. So now we can go to the top right and save to the camera roll. Hope you enjoyed this lesson. And that's the end of class for see you in the next one. 7. Class Four Wrap Up: Thank you for taking Eichler armor class for I hope you've enjoyed the lessons and it's got your creative juices flowing. There's so many ways you can blend three or even more images together to create a unique work. I encourage you to experiment with the methods I've shown you. I'd be delighted to see your finished pictures. Please upload them for everyone to see. The follow button in the top left. So I can let you know when the next course is ready. I would appreciate a review if you have a moment. Thank you again for taking my course. If you'd like to know more about me, please visit my website, color story.com. I started my creative journey writing books and audios, as you can see here. Then I return to my first love art and created all kinds of art. Finally, I have 20 years of mind, body, and spirit articles to help my readers navigate our complex world. I think you'll find it very interesting to visit my website, color story.com.