The Art of John Uibel

Matte painting #27

Here is an ocean/sky thing which I made from lots of photos and some original painting.

^{Photoshop CS2; 3 hours (source photos courtesy: FXPHD)}

The hardest part was just getting a decent composition out of such random cloud photos and forcing them to cooperate with one another. Clouds can give one such fastidio. This was a good exercise to grade image quality and see how far I can stretch image resolution before it doesn’t work anymore. It’s also a good exercise to see how far I can be stretched before I don’t work anymore.

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Matte Painting #26

Here’s another. I replaced the background of a great image photographed by my bro Chuck Uibel at the Great Salt Lake, and painted in a cityscape using Photoshop CS2. Hats off to Dylan Cole and the crew of Adapt2006.

^{Photoshop CS2; Original photography: © Chuck Uibel 2007; 3 hrs.}

And below is the original photo source from Chuck Uibel:

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Matte Painting 25

Photo manip and complete sky/ foreground replacement and everything but the midground trees. Major color pallette tweak overall.

^{Photoshop CS2; 3.5 hrs}

whereas the one below was the original source image (source unknown)…

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What was I thinking?

The composition on that last one bombed as much as the subject matter. Here’s an attempt to fix it. Now you know how I make these decisions:)

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Matte Painting Concept #24b

Here’s another. And a color variation.

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Matte Painting Concept #24

Just dinking around with some photographs and original painting in Photoshop.

^{Photoshop CS2; 2 hrs; Photography: John Alec Uibel}

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In other news: I am going to post a big schmackeroonish load of content as a result of my attendance at the ADAPT2006 concept illustration conference this weekend in Montreal, which I am quite excited to attend. See you in a few days…

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How to Illustrate a Theme Park Resort and Remain Calm

I created these pieces to augment initial design discussions for a major multi-$Mill theme park resort in an East-European city, the name withheld for obvious clearances.

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This Just In: Business is Booming

Call it fate, call it luck, call it karma. I believe that everything happens for a reason. Well this is a big twinkie! The past month has been, well, one of those months. One of those Good Months that drop from the sky every death of a pope, as they say in Italy.

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My New Photoshop CS2 Basics textbook is finally published!

After a full year of development, I have finished my first nationally released textbook through Thompson Course Technology Publishing, now available from Amazon.com and anywhere fine Photoshop books are sold. And I couldn’t be happier — it is a high-quality, 336-page whopper of a full color textbook with some magnificent lessons and secrets for using Photoshop. Authored with Brian & Cheryl Morse and Karl Barksdale, this textbook takes you through some very interesting and easy-to-understand tutorials for using Photoshop tools in real-world problem solving. You will learn how professionals use Photoshop in their work in graphic design, photo manipulation/restoration and learn very useful techniques for achieving professional results in illustration. You really will learn quickly with this book.

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Not much for Goodbye’s

Here is an image I produced on my laptop in my hotel room while on the road for a large-format film project. Not much there, but there’s something there. I’ll do a revised version once I get home.

Photoshop CS; 4 hours

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