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Artist creates ad using 1,000 Photoshop layers
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Most Adobe Photoshop users have often wished for more time to complete a project. One artist took more than 300 hours and used more than 1,000 Photoshop layers to create an impressive composite from many individual images as part of a campaign designed for Adobe Systems.
Adobe ad uses 1,000 layers to create colorful image
The final images encompasses a colorful view of Times Square in New York City, complete with skyscrapers, shops and people, shot by the photographer across multiple locations, and composited together.
According to Composite Planet, a digital imaging site run by Josh Rossi, the artist behind this project, he took thousands of pictures and combined them all using more than 1,000 Photoshop layers. He began with the background, using images of skyscrapers and buildings as the basis for the image. From there, he started to add in additional elements, such as the sky, the ground and the sidewalk. The people came last as he continued to sprinkle the picture with vibrant colors and shapes.
"The perspective was tricky and needed a high angle looking down," he explains on his site. "It was inefficient to bring a ladder around New York City and shoot the 50+ elements so Josh decided to put the camera on a tripod and hold it in the air with a 10 second timer. He needed a high shutter speed as well as a small f-stop to get a deep depth of field to achieve the effect he wanted."
The source also noted that lighting was one of the largest issues Rossi faced when both taking and editing the image, but since Photoshop houses a number of features ideal for perfecting an image's color, Rossi was able to fix the images to get the final product he desired.
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Rossi's image illustrates what you can create when you have a solid knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. American Graphics Institute also helps artists to unlock the power of Photoshop through Photoshop training courses, ideal for artists of any expertise level.
About the author
Jennifer Smith is a user experience designer, educator and author based in Boston. She has worked in the field of user experience design for more than 15 years.She has designed websites, ecommerce sites, apps, and embedded systems. Jennifer designs solutions for mobile, desktop, and iOT devices.
Jennifer delivers UX training and UX consulting for large Fortune 100 companies, small start-ups, and independent software vendors.She has served as a Designer in Residence at Microsoft, assisting third-party app developers to improve their design solutions and create successful user experiences. She has been hired by Adobe and Microsoft to deliver training workshops to their staff, and has traveled to Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East, and across the U.S. to deliver courses and assist on UX design projects. She has extensive knowledge of modern UX Design, and worked closely with major tech companies to create educational material and deliver UX workshops to key partners globally. Jennifer works with a wide range of prototyping tools including XD, Sketch, Balsamiq, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Blend for Visual Studio. She also works extensively in the fields of presentation design and visual design.
Jennifer is also an expert on Photoshop, digital image editing, and photo manipulation. Having written 10 books on Photoshop, and having consulted and provided training to major media companies and businesses around the globe.
Jennifer is the author of more than 20 books on design tools and processes, including Adobe Creative Cloud for Dummies, Adobe Creative Cloud Digital Classroom, and Photoshop Digital Classroom. She has been awarded a Microsoft MVP three times for her work with user experience design in creating apps for touch, desktop, and mobile devices. Jennifer holds the CPUX-F certification from the User Experience Qualification Board and assists others in attaining this designation in leading a UX certification course at American Graphics Institute. She is a candidate for a Master’s degree in Human Factors in Information Design.