This page has two sets of image maps, each with ten links to the ten
units.
For the large rainbow hands I placed my own hand on the scanner and
put the file in Photoshop. I then erased the background and used one
of the filter Artist effects on the hands to produce a more painted
look than the photograph. Then I used a rainbow gradient overlay with
25% transparency for the left and and 37% on the right hand.
Next I painted the fingernails. I decided that I need some fingerprints
for my page so I made these with black ink on paper, scanned them into
Photoshop and re-colored them. For the shadow effect I made a copy of
the hand, darkened it, blurred the image and placed it underneath the
rainbow hand.
I used the text tool and placed numbers on the fingernails for the
place where the image map will point to.
Lastly I dragged the text of my Photoshop Portfolio into the file. I
saved the Photoshop file which was 2 megs as a JPEG which shrunk down
to about 90k. Then I made an image map to fit the text with the URLs
to take you back to the Portfolio Home page at top and the various units.
You will see the hand pointed if you mouse over the image.
Note that I made a link at the top, "Adele Aldridge, Photoshop
Portfolio" to take you back to the Portfolio home page. I used
that same technique on all the units.
The hands at the bottom are all in one image. I wanted to use the
theme of the painted hand on the front page in the links for all the
Units. I began with the custom shape of the hand that I created in Unit
5.
I removed the drop shadow of the hand shape in the smaller image
for the links at the bottom of the page because when using these ten
images, all in different colors on different backgrounds through out
the portfolio, inevitably one of the images did not blend well with
the back ground. I needed a transparent GIF file, so I reduced the original
hand in size, copied the same colors into the ten images and placed
them in one document. I added an image map, with 10 different URLs to
the different aunt and placed it on all Unit pages.
I think back to the early days when Photoshop did not have layers
and do not see how I could have made this image. I can remember back
to days before there was Photoshop at all, or before computers. Mind
boggling how fast technology has improved the techniques for artists.
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