This post was solely inspired by “The Spirit” movie that I watched today with my fiancee. I think it’s absolutely brilliant piece of cinematic art and Frank Miller’s style is so inspiring that it’s worth putting some examples on the blog.
Frank Miller?
In case you spent last few years under the rock, I’ll drop a short biographic note of Frank Miller. What you need to know is that Frank is the original author of such masterpiece comics like “300″, “Sin City” and “The Spirit” which have been adapted by Hollywood to grow into billion-making movies. His weapon of choice is film noir style, which means it’s mostly about good cops, bad cops, sex, drugs and so on. So, who is Frank Miller (I’ll quote Wikipedia on that):
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics. He recently directed The Spirit. Miller shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on the film Sin City and produced 300.
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Since I’m working more as a consultant on the project in my company lately, because the basic design is done and they just need me here or there to finish something up and my univ schedule is less tight, I have some free time to focus on my private side projects and sometimes just to simply play with Photoshop and do something just for fun. “Lift Me Up” is a new wallpaper I’ve done in my free time as a practice of creating photo manipulations using light effects in Photoshop.
I tried to keep it in glossy-and-cheesy-yet-trendy 80s mood, with light explosions, light beams and blocky typography. I spent quite a few hours on preparing this image and I’m quite satisfied with the results. Of course, it could be touched-up a bit here and there, but I like the overall effect and the fact that I’ve achieved what I wanted to learn – how to play with light in Photoshop using layer effects, selection effects, brushes and dodge&burn tools.
Hope you like it, feedback welcome as always.
Edit: I want to have my readers’ opinion – do you want to have a tutorial how to create a photo-manipulation like that, you don’t want or do you simply don’t care? Let me know in the comments, Twitter or whatever you find suits you best.
