Today I'm posting 6 French Fashion plates from the 1770's and 1780's as I continue with my fashion series from the time of Marie Antoinette. I've also created a digital artpiece using two of those fashion plates as well as a nice selection of PNGs from the 1779 Walking Dress fashion plate in a variety of color combinations. I hope you Enjoy! EKDuncan digital artscene using vintage French Fashion Plates I created this digital scene in Photoshop using a variety of digital images. The main lady is one of my EKD altered fashion plates, then on the background wall I've digitally framed another of the vintage fashion plates. The table under that is actually from a Regency era 1809 Ackermann's Repository Furniture Plate. The "wallpaper" is a digital scrapbook patterned paper and the rug was created from a photo. Today's selection of French Fashion Plates Today I've chosen a selection of Promenade or Walking Dresses from the 1770's and 1780's for your viewing and crafting pleasure. 1776 French Fashion Plate - Royal Promenade Dress I used this print as the "framed" image in my artpiece at the top of the post. This is the most formal of today' s fashion plates; however the next five costumes are quite lovely too. 1780 French Fashion Plate 1782 French Fashion Plate 1787 French Fashion Plate 1778 French Fashion Plate 1779 French Fashion Plate I altered this image into a PNG and then had a blast creating a variety of color combinations from this original. I can't say I'm a big fan of the original color combination for this or a multitude of other vintage fashion plates in my collection. Many of my vintage fashion plates show some very strange color combinations and it never ceases to amaze me how much an ensemble can be altered by changing the colors. I thinks this is why I'm addicted to playing with these images and creating so many color variations from them. I also remember how frustrating it was to create prior to going digital and being stuck using an image in whatever color it appeared in; so I hope these fun color combinations help add to your crafting potential My EKDuncan Artscene from the top of the post I used the altered Olive and Pink combination of the 1779 walking dress for my digital artscene. Here are the altered PNGs I created. This is the original color combination Teal and Sable Version Slate and Grey Version Blue and Pink Version Peacock and Gold Version Olive and Pink Version Violet and Slate Version Green Version Blue Version Purple Version Brown Version Grey Version I look at a lot of things in an image before I choose it for a PNG upgrade. This 1779 fashion plate showed a lot of promise for conversion and colorizing and I was quite satisfied with my choice in subject matter once the process was complete. I thought her face was lovely, her gown elegant and her pose quite interesting for using in a digital scene. I hope you enjoy using her in your creations too. till next time...