Howdy lovers of all things Photoshop!
Seeing as how today is the 20th anniversary of our beloved (or hated) piece of software, I thought I would post my old 1994 RMIT BA Photography final year portfolio. Created entirely with Photoshop v2 without layers and Strata Studio Pro v1, a basic 3D program. The first version I [...]

Here are some more images that I created in my 2nd year at RMIT. Each of these incorporated some sort of special effect, photographic effect or trickery. No lith composites here, these were earlier than that..
This was a forced perspective shot, the model is sitting on a triangle shaped piece of perspex, which is also [...]

And this horrible four element composite…  Ah well, it was a technical challenge if nothing else..

My sincerest apologies to Mike Pangrazio for reproducing and ruining such a classic matte painting.. what was I thinking!!

Variations on the theme of last post.. I couldn’t quite get perfect comps using this optical process, could have been my dodgy carpeted bedroom – makes for a bad studio – or that I was using an on-camera flash head – hand held – to expose the lith film in the laundry, may have all [...]

Ah.. the good ol’ days of imaging yore. Are you tired of computers and long for a return to simpler times? I’m tired of computers but there is NO way I would go back into a darkroom just to comp two images together and wait a week for the result…

Here are some of my early [...]