Working with Photoshop and the letters

I looked at combining my skills from Photoshop with the photos I took of the dickens letter. One of the elements that really caught my eye was the stamp and how it has evolved so I wanted to highlight that. I even looked at making a continual pattern with the stamp by using the cloning tool.

This continual pattern I created links to the style of textile is the 19^th century around the time of Gaskell. It was often a pattern repeated usually a floral or natural pattern. Therefore, I was experimenting with creating my own 19^th century repetitive textile pattern using the stamps they used.

Here is an example of one of the 9th century textiles piece, would have been used as wallpaper in Upper class family because of the gold colour used in the leaves. I have altered it a bit on Photoshop brings in my paint brush marks I created in the workshop.