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DISCOVER HOW RAPHAEL JIWA CREATED AN OUTOFTHISWORLD

PHOTOMANIPULATION USING PHOTO STOCK AND HIS OWN BRUSHES

GRAVITY

RAPHAEL JIYA

M

alawian-born Raphael Jiwa (www.

elrafagiant.com) came to the UK at

the age of eight and it was then he was

introduced to a computer for the first

time. “[It was] love at first sight! After clicking

around I found Microsoft Paint and I hated it, but

drawing random stuff took me to a different place

so after a while I searched for better software and

stumbled on Gimp. That relationship just didn’t work

out so my ITC teacher introduced me to Adobe

Photoshop 7, and since then I have been designing

my heart out.”

“The inspiration for Gravity was being in a place

where you don’t actually belong and not knowing

01

CUTTING AND MERGING

I cut out the background of this image and

then used the Eraser to rub out the face. Then I used

the Clone Stamp tool to bring back bits of the helmet.

02

SETTING THE SCENE

I made the background with simple Brush

tools by making simple cloud-like effects and adding

gradient maps then merging to add a star pattern.

03

CONTROL CENTRE

I made the control centre in a different document and then dragged it in. I warped and skewed

it to fit the perspective then added a blue Outer Glow.

what you are doing,” Jiwa explains. “I used the

monkey in space trying to repair a spaceship in a

futuristic environment to illustrate it.”

Based mainly on using the Pen tool, his own

custom brushes, Gaussian blurs, blending modes

and the Warp and Transform tools, Jiwa built this

image up from photo stock.

TECHNIQUES HOW I MADE