Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The Making Of Smuggling Basketballs


Smuggling Basketballs Maternity T-shirts

This is how I made them.

1. Get an old t-shirt, outgrown but not worn out.
2. Poke holes in it with the screwdriver I just used to tighten my glasses.
3. Rip holes wider by hand.
4. Shove basketball inside t-shirt, set on chair, and arrange holes & ball.
5. Set up camera on tripod.
6. Take picture. (above left)
7. Adjust brightness & contrast of image to make everything more visible.
8. Adjust color of ball to be a more bright orange.
9. Select t-shirt area.
10. Adjust brightness & contrast of t-shirt area to make area between holes mostly white and shadows grey.
11. Select hole areas and tatters, feather a bit, and crop, leaving the rest solid white.
12. Tweak & trim the shadows.
White version done.
13. Select white and tattered areas.
14. Carefully tweak selection.
15. Feather selection and adjust color to black with dark grey highlights. Forget about the shadows.
16. Select and trim away stray highlights beyond tatters surrounding holes.
17 Select all surrounding black area, reduce the selection, and delete leaving transparent section.
Dark version done.

Some of those steps took a bit longer to do than to write. :)
I don't think I've spent more time and effort on a design before. Feels good.

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