Hockney style Joiner help needed.

quinny

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22 Feb 2010 - 8:49 PM

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Can anyone help me. I need to do a Hockney style joiner, I have taken the images already but now realise that maybe I haven't taken enough front on images to be able to join them.

I have tried to to follow the video tutorial on this but it isn't working. Can anyone suggest another way I can do this? I am on a mac and using Photoshop CS4 (unsuccessfully as a beginner).

Pete (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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22 Feb 2010 - 10:30 PM

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Which video and which bit of the video do you get stuck on?
In a few lines as a forum posts, you copy each image and paste them onto a canvas, large enough to have them arranged how you want. Resize each image using the transform tool and position them roughly where you want them to be. Each one is on a new layer so you can move them independently. Use the transform to rotate and put some at slightly jaunty angles. Make sure some areas overlap and some don't so it has a random feel. Use the drop shadow feature to add a slightly raised feel.
Hope that helps

Pete (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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22 Feb 2010 - 10:41 PM

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Well for your book create a blank canvas in Photoshop it's File>New
And set the following (assuming you're putting it in an A4 book) Just change measurement of appropriate size of workbook and leave the rest as illustrated.



Then open your pictures one by one and do the following
Ctrl + A (select all) ctrl + C (copy) on the individual pic,
Followed by crtl +v (paste) on the new canvas.

When each pic is pasted go to Edit>Transform>Scale and adjust to the appropriate size on the canvas.
Use the move tool to reposition.
If you have worked out how big the little pics need to be you can just resize befoe you copy and paste to save time using the transform tool.

quinny

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24 Feb 2010 - 7:52 AM

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It was a video done by Gavin Hoey. I did everything it said but then it came up with something like some couldn't be joined. I think we didn't take enough front facing pictures and too many at different angles (ie underneath, overhead, left and right).

Think it's probably best we start from scratch with this one.

montechoro

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24 Feb 2010 - 8:39 AM

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Quote: The key here is that Hockney used Polaroid for his joiners.
I did a few joiners many years ago, but did them the way Hockney did, and had each seperate image in print form, and mounted them on board.

Nick

As well as Polaroids, Hockney also used 35mm for his joiners and had them processed at the local supermarket.

Mistakes made in the print process, warning labels on prints and tips about exposure from the labs sometimes also found their way into his work.

Good luck with the joiners they are fun to work with.

Remember Hockney did not want his joiners to be perfect - he sought to present the viewer with a representation of what he saw.

He also sometimes included his own feet in his joiner images.

NickParry (Critique Team)

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24 Feb 2010 - 4:55 PM

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Try this too for creating polaroids:

http://poladroid.en.softonic.com/

Nick