No Staples Book Work in Progress

Inside of book

work in progress shots

I used a awful lot of layers in order to create this Photoshop. As you can see from the images above and below, I used a lot of Magic Wand tool (which selects a certain desired area) to change the colour of some keys and key holes to a different shade of green from the rest, creating some diversity.

I just kept repeating this effect, changing the shades of green. It took some time, since there are some very small areas where you have to zoom right in in order to select them.

I chose a set of keys that were overlapped and decided to create a repeating pattern for the inside and covers of my no staples book. I added in random keys in-between the pattern to make it more interesting. In terms of a simple title "Keys n' stuff" was as straight forward I could come up with.

Double Page Spread

work in progress shots

I started by simply copy and pasting over keys from another Photoshop document which had a scan of my drawn keys on it that I had changed the threshold of, to make them fully black.

I added in more keys, slowly, making sure to change the layout from the drawn sheet of keys. I also changed the sizes of a lot of them, and ran some over the sides to add some variation.

Finally, all of the keys were on the document.

Lastly, I did the same as I had done with the spreads and the covers. I removed some areas of colour, leaving white, and I changed some of the shades of green on the keys, all with the Magic Wand tool