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The G Experiment

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From an experimentation session in 1997, exploring many of the unlimited treatment possibilites in Photoshop. Using a common lowercase ‘g’ as the subject, I began concocting various digital imaging recipes using combinations of filters, masks, layers, and blending modes. This resulted in 80 variations of the graphic.


↓ Variations below ↓

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Brick
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Burlap
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Camouflage

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Carpet
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Cereal
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Checked

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Chisel
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Chrome A Key
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Clay

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Confetti
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Coral
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Cotton

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Crayon
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Decay
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Embroidery

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Stained Glass
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Sandstone
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Feathers

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Shaving Cream
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Fronds
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Fur

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Deke I
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Deke II
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Gel

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Satin Through Glass
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Glow
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Branding Iron

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For Granite
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Halftone
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License Plate

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Fridge
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Melting Chocolate
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Cut It Out

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End Of The Tunnel
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Smudge
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Not In Your Hand

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Mosaic
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Movement
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Nails

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Neon
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Fire
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Loud Drip

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Lunch
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Pillow
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Plaid

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Plastic
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Potpourri
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Quake

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Stamp
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Artology
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Electric

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Reflector Tape
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Icing
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Scraps

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Skywater
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Smoked
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Spattered

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Sponge
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Stitched Upholstery
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Stony

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Stress
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Stucco
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Tiles

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Blueburn
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Wicker
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Zebra

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Organic
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Canvas
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Bevel

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Acid
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Liquid
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Chrome On Water
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Blue Ox
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This globe was a separate element brought into the overall composition towards the end of the project. It was done entirely from scratch using lighting effects and channel operations. First, I drew the land and text in Illustrator. Then I brought them into Photoshop and created a mask for the circle, a mask for the land, and a mask for the text. I spherized everything. I then duplicated the land mask channel and the text mask channel, and created texture maps using noise filters. Then I applied an omni lighting effects filter twice, once for the land texture, and again backwards for the text map. What I ended up with is a globe with embossed land and engraved text.Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter is extremely RAM intesive. You need about 20 megs of RAM to render lighting effects on 500k worth of pixels. Since I was working in hi-res, I needed to allocate 300 megs of RAM to Photoshop in order to render the effects! No such thing as too much RAM. Fortunately with today’s powerful machines, RAM is usually a non-issue. But we weren’t always so lucky!

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*All images were created from scratch using Adobe Illustrator 6 and Photoshop 4.0.1 on a Powermac. No third party filters were used in this experiment.
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