Layers and overlays...

For this project it was vital to use photoshop to experiment with the opacity of the overlay before printing. Even this only helped to a small extent as the thickness of the tracing paper played a big part in the final result.

Below you can see some examples of the images...both on their own and also with the overlay included.

This is the original image. I initially wanted to create a glitch effect but after  viewing the image with 3D glasses  it appears that the blue and red edging created when making the glitch effect give the image a depth that isn't there without the glasses. This has given us ideas for a sequel to the book.

This example shows the image with the overlay of a space helmet included.  It was so black at 100 % opacity that it required some adjustments and test prints before finalising the whole image.

This image shows how easily changes can be made to improve the opacity of the overlay.  In this instance I think I lowered it too much. At the end of the day if we didn't experiment with this type of thing we couldn't honestly say that we are putting our full effort into making the book as good as we know it can be.



This is the final image as it would be printed. The overlay opacity is at 75%. This allows the image below to be seen underneath the whole overlay but not so much that the overlay is functionless.

This whole process is something we have to do for every image in the book, you could say it's almost like a part of the quality control phase because it plays directly into the narrative of the book as a whole.
I think that if we were given a realistic time frame rather than the constraints of a uni brief timeline then we could really develop this ideas into something sellable.

If we were to mass produce this as a published book we would have to reconsider the image rights to most of the overlays, as we used a lot of appropriated imagery for them. It would be interesting to see what ideas we could develop such as 3D images and also whether we could give the same nostalgic feel without using licensed images from film and tv.

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