Tessellation Pattern

This is a Tessellation that was done with photos from the Art Deco period, which I manipulated in Photoshop and combined with each other in a repetitive pattern. I had a hard time at first with Photoshop as I had only used Lightroom for editing my photographs before, but finally caught on. With the first few photographs that I manipulated in Photoshop, I had a hard time with the tools of the program. By the fourth or fifth photo, I had learned to use many more tools than before. I chose to do a complementary color theory with the red side of the purples purples and greens because with the editing that I had done to each photo, purple was very apparent already. I improved my color replacement skills in Photoshop when having to change colors within my photographs to match my color theory. I also learned a lot about the polygonal tool and keyboard shortcuts. I decided to do a diagonal layout in order to stick to my theme of Art Deco with the chevron designs and geometric patterns. With the process of the tesselations, I had to edit and manipulate photographs and cut them into a pattern (repeating and tracing that pattern onto each photograph) and then had to open them up in InDesign in order to match the images together like a puzzle. The photos needed to be the same sizes and well cut in order for them to match up well.