Surreal Collage Style Artwork in Photoshop
Today’s we’re going to have loads of fun creating an abstract—and quite surreal—collage style piece of artwork in Adobe Photoshop. This kind of art style has been popular for years, although originally it would have been made using traditional photomontage techniques with photographs, magazine images and newspaper clippings, all cut apart and reassembled using scissors, glue and photocopiers. These days we can use digital techniques to make things without even getting our hands dirty! Plus there’s a wealth of source material readily available in the form of stock imagery that we can pick and choose from. If you browse Google or Pinterest for some examples of surreal collages, you’ll see there’s literally no limits to what you can produce. I personally love the ones with comical outcomes that are made with completely random combinations. For this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll use a selection of free stock images along with basic Photoshop compositing techniques to create a fun abstract piece of artwork. Traditional artists sometimes used paint or pastels to add colour to their work, so we’ll do the same with pixels. Then to mimic the analogue reproduction methods originally used, we’ll distress the result with some effects that mimic bad photocopy prints with high noise and harsh contrast.
Stock photos used:
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Hi Chris, that was fun, I especially love that very sexy picture of Ralph Meeker and Barbara Stanwyk!
Glad you liked the tutorial Gabby!
That was fun! Now to go give it a whirl! Thank you, Chris!
Thank you Su! Let us know how your finished piece turns out
Really cool video Chris definitely gave me some ideas on what I can do with photoshop. This site also helped me out a lot http://ed3ba6ome8e1fl5dskupsd2x9p.hop.clickbank.net/
Glad the tutorial inspired you Alan!
FUN!! Very cool!
Thanks Scott!
This is awesome. Thank you!
Thank you Robin!
Great tut! I’m now hooked on this type of art style. very neat
That’s great! Thanks Dereck!
Thanks for a great tutorials, I learn so much from you
Glad I can help!
Nicely done and a bit of fun!
Thank you Jez!
Thanks Chris! enjoy your tutorials and your fun presentation..
Great to see you’re enjoying the tutorials Zita
Really cool tutorial Chris, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your comment Andres