Liquid motion

For this month’s Big Project we’ll look at how to craft a colourful dancer image from a series of photos of paint. This involves a combination of shooting skills and Photoshop techniques.

First, we’ll get set up to shoot vibrant photos of paint by capturing the colours as they travel through water. Once done, we’ll progress into Photoshop where we’ll warp the photos into the shape of our springing dancer. As such, this is effectively two skills in one. So if you’re mainly interested in capturing beautiful paint abstracts, then you can follow along with the first part, and if you’d rather work on the Photoshop skills, you can skip the shooting part and use the supplied images to craft your own painterly figures.