Fun with Vintage Photographs Posted on August 19th
I’ve been digitizing the plates from the Ceramique Orientale image portfolio for a few days now, uploading them directly to the clip art store as they are completed and my mind is swimming with ideas!
The idea to apply a kaleidoscopic version of Tile Pattern Page No. 29 to alter the dress on this 19th century antique carte de visite was inspired by Gankutsuou, The Count of Monte Cristo.
Gankutsuou is a feast for the eyes as well as being a very well told tale, actually quite faithful to the original Dumas story in spite of a few radical changes, not the least of those being that our dear Count is blue, with pointed ears and fangs.
The characters clothing and hair is made up of patterns, and as the characters move the patterns do not. It is difficult to describe, so take a look at the trailer at Geneon’s official website for Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Photoshop is my software of choice. The pattern was transformed into repeating pattern using the free Kaleidoscope 2.1 Plugin from Mehdi.
I selected the dress in two sections (the “skirt” and the “bodice”) using the magnetic lasso tool. The tiled pattern was “pasted into” these sections. To age the dress, I chose to re-age the entire photograph using the Old Movie plugin from VanDerLee.
I’ll continue to work on my example image, perhaps keeping some of the color and tinting the photograph more. But for now…back to work on the rest of the tile patterns.
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