Image your Outdoor Sculpture in Chicago, New York, Hollywood, Paris or Tokyo.
Maybe your sculpture will be near a beach, on top of a building, or on the moon.
Make it look true using Photoshop!
Anish Kapoor's 'Cloud Gate' in Chicago
The Bean's real name is 'Cloud Gate'.
Robert Gram's Sculpture 'Monument to Joe Louis' in Detroit.
Robert Indiana's iconic 'LOVE' Sculpture in New York City.
Marshall Fredricks
Detroit based artist Marshall Fredricks' many sculptures symbolize Detroit. He sculpted: Spirit of Detroit, Fountain of Eternal Life Cleveland, Man and the Expanding Universe Fountain, Boy Bear, Leaping Gazelle, The Lion and the Mouse, and hundreds others that you have may have see around Michigan and the World!
Photoshop Paper Sculpture
Turn your paper sculpture into a life like monumental Sculpture.
1.Cut out your Paper Sculpture Photo using Photoshop. It is easy to do using the Object Selection Tool (W). Then click Select and Mask Button up top and clean up any imperfections using The Quick Select Tool (w) When done smooth to 4 Feather to 0 Choose: Output to New Layer with Layer Mask
2. Find a landscape photo of yours (or from the internet) that you would like to use to place your sculpture on for a background. I selected a green golf course photo with a blue sky and dragged it to the desktop. Then drag it into photoshop.
3. Resize and Place your Sculpture. In the layers panel of photoshop drag the landscape under your sculpture. Place your sculpture where you want it with the Move Tool (v). Resize your sculpture to look like a nice large sculpture using Free Transform Tool (Ctrl T). Have Fun! You do not need a copyright free background for this project.
4. Draw a cast shadow on the dark side of the ground and sculpture using the Burn Tool (o). Add a gradient adjustment layer to your Sculpture to create a colored Sculpture.
5. Cut out a person, superhero, or toy to give your sculpture size. Using the Object Select and Free Transform tools again.
6. Name and Save your files. Choose Save As and type your First and Last name _Paper Sculpture and choose psd as file format. Then again choose file Save As and type your first and Last Name_Paper Sculpture and choose jpeg as the file format.
7. Hand in Both your psd & your jpeg into Schoology for a grade.
Choose a location background
Pick your superhero, toy or people
Before shadows were "Burned" in
Photograph your sculpture
Here Bob Ross is added and Shadows are added using the Burn Tool.
Add yourself or some real people!
Color your Sculpture by adding a gradient adjustment layer.
Name your Sculpture! mine is called "Rabbit"
Art Foundations students Photoshop of their Paper Sculptures
Have some fun!
You don't need a copyright free background for this project.
Paper sculpture, photo of paper sculpture and photoshop placement by Marlena Abro.
Artist Inspired Sculpture
Recreate a famous sculpture out of paper, carboard, modeling clay, recycled items, or any material you may have available to you or at home. Photograph your item with a simple background so you can easy photoshop it into a new background. Write about the artist, and original artwork. Explain where it is what it represents, possibly at a quote about the artwork.
Hand in your artwork with the following; 1. Your writing 2. Your photo with a simple background 3. Your photo placed into a new location (you may use any photo from the internet for the new location) 4. Photo of the original artwork that inspired you
Two Forms by Barbara Hempworth
This modern bronze sculpture was made by Barbara Hepworth in 1970. She designed the sculpture after being diagnosed with cancer.
She said "You can climb through the divided circle - you don't need to do it to physically experience it."
Recreated in paper by Reeta Ghazi in 2021 placed in China with Cat Woman.
Recreated by Reeta Ghazi
The Great Camel Sculpture of Egypt
I found my three images to start my project.
My wife and myself on a camel, a photo of the pyramids in Egypt, paper sculpture or an origami camel.
Select and Mask images together and I used the burn tool to draw in shadows.
Photoshop Tips & Short Cut Keys
File - Place Embedded (insert a second photo into the same document)
Ctrl J - Duplicate a layer (do this to your background and add shadows to the second layer and change the opacity of the second layer so the shadow is see through)
Ctrl Z - Backup a Step (if you made a mistake)
Ctrl T - Transform the size of a layer (change the size of your sculpture)
Select and Mask (after clicking the Select and Mask button finish editing than on the right scroll to the bottom under output settings and and choose output as: New Layer with Layer Mask)