I’ve started playing around with digital editing, using Pixlr app on my phone and iPad and laptop, i don’t have Photoshop and find it quite complicated to use, whereas Pixlr is more user friendly and i suppose a bit dumbed down so people who aren’t massive computer fans are able to use.
This first strip i just put four of my images in a row then rounded off the edges to give a strip of circular designs like a repeat pattern on a wallpaper.
In this one i used six of my collages, the original four from the first strip, then used the double exposure tool in the editor to impose another collage over the top two images then another collage over the bottom two. I used two of my more brightly coloured ones so even with the image thinned out over the other images, the bright colours still showed through.
For this one i used one of the vintage filters to change the tone of the image. This warm filter floods the image and makes it look older and takes the edge off the disjointed images that it is actually displaying.
This one is just a repeat of the second strip then repeated four times on the same size strip as the other ones. Again I used a filter that was called Pop Art to get the four colours. It’s OK but i think out of all of these i like the second and third ones best. This was just an experiment and a bit of practice for me at photo editing as i want to design a wall covering of my own and these quick ones I’ve knocked up don’t have the impact I’m looking for.
