Composite produced with a Lytro camera

… Flaming Pear, PSD and Studio Artist and more

Over the past few months, I’ve been spending time trying to become more proficient with Studio Artist while playing with the Lytro camera.

This time, I am taking the images into a different part of Studio Artist. I am also pushing the preprocessing effects as well as the output.

Composite produced with a Lytro camera

All of the images shown were created from Lytro Light Field camera images. Prior to taking the files into Studio Artist, I processed the files in Photoshop to prepare them for digital paint. As part of the preprocessing, I sometimes add color, sharpen, defocus, composite and perform other modifications as I anticipate what I may do in Studio Artist. Although you can do much of the same things in the program itself, I like using Photoshop as a preprocessor. I like to think of these images as being a marriage of photography and computer painting where the photograph becomes the basis of the image.

Composite produced with a Lytro camera

Unlike the original files, the full size versions of these images are actually quite large. The smallest is around 80 megabytes and the largest is nearly 200. The photographic elements have been minimized, distorted and altered from their original appearance.

Every image on this page began from a Lytro image.

Composite produced with a Lytro camera

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