All at Sea

Things have been fairly busy with Photoshop work recently but mostly on the retouching side so much of the work can't be published. This project arrived this week however, the production of poster sized (over 4ft) images for a new office. The images were randomly shot to display the harbour and the ships with the full selection of JPGs arriving back with me. From there I designed a range of final images with differing finishes to compliment the variety of items photographed. All of the designs were completed within a couple of hours. This is a selection of the final images.
The first image above I particularly like. It resembles the old style images found on collectors cards inside cigarette packets, now only found adorning golf club walls in aging frames.

This design resembles those puzzles where you have to move the squares around to recreate the picture. The trick here is to break the image into sections and move them equally apart. Blending Options>Stroke gives an instant uniform border. It's also key to keep the branding on the ship visible.

I picked out three elements which could be found in the wider shot and tried them in varying positions around the image before settling on this one. Anything close to or on the top of the image took away from the leading lines running up to the control deck.

This design was very simplistic but included all of the elements required, 3 types of ship and a large harbour view. The smaller individual shots weren't strong enough on their own to make into full size images.

The original idea for this shot was to split it into two separate windows but after adding a centre line to test the idea I found I preferred it to splitting the image.