6
Opening
When we created digital tattoos on the computer, we learned the
art concepts of opaque and translucent. In this exercise, we used
the opacity bar to make a tattoo translucent on human skin. The top layer
contained an image of a transparent tattoo and the bottom layer contained
an image of human skin.
Today, we are going to apply our knowledge of transparency and opaqueness
in order to design a digital CD cover of the lyric that we downloaded
from the internet. Instead of making the entire image translucent,
we are going to learn how to select specific areas of an image that we
want to be opaque and translucent. By creating a layer mask, I am going to
demonstrate how to blend two images. Unlike the opacity bar, this tool
allows the designer to control which parts of the image will be opaque and
translucent.
As graphic designers, we will learn how the overall meaning of
our song relates to the composition that was created by a layer mask.