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.