
Experimenting, I used different lights and moved from a glass tomato jar to a plastic laffy taffy jug to a perfect glass vase. I took out my bed reading lamp and another similar spotlight I own. I tried photographing it, only to realize it happened too fast, and better lights were needed. I watched it go, fascinated, and decided I needed to do something with this image. When painting, I cleaned off an ink brush by dipping it inside of a clear bin of water. Here's the finished images, as seen in the Ink Drop Photography post: Instead, I'll spend my time sharing the fun I had making these photos with you. I'll leave it to someone else to do the research. I'm pretty sure the term for what I played around with is cloud chamber. You probably won't work with cloud chambers, but it's applying this same technique to ink splatters, fun textures, and anything and everything else. With that said, this is a photoshop tutorial in the sense that this is exactly the variety of experimenting needed to make any image in photoshop work. The technical side needs to stop being obsessed over. It was a tiring day, but by the end they knew it.
#Photo in inkdrop photoshop full
I made a full time living for nearly a year teaching a one day intensive course where I did exactly that - taught complete newbs the program in a day. The technical side is not the challenge, and it's upsetting how much focus people have on learning all the tricks of photoshop when they could be dedicating their time to improving their design, photography, and drawing skills.Įverything you need to learn in photoshop you can learn in a day. Photoshop boils down to good art, nice photography, and a modicum of technical skills.

You need to step outside of the computer and use something other then that awesome grunge brush with that killer 3d effects combined with that wild font.


In order to get good in photoshop, you need to experiment in ways never done before.
