Composite images

I took a tutorial to try and learn some new techniques that I could apply to some of my images. I put the two planes in (on new

layers) and made them look extra realistic b

y using the feathering tool after contracting t

he plane by 0.5 pixels. I blurred the image and

put a motion blur on the planes at the same an

gle as the plane to make it look as if the plane is traveling forward. You can also change the

number of pixels that you blur and so I only dragged the bar across a little because if you blur it by too many pixels you cants see the plane very well (just a blur) and I wanted to make the plane distinguishable in the photo.

The photo on the right is one of mine and I wanted to create an image in the style of David LaChapelle with the same techniques learnt in the tutorial and image I created in the image above. I decided that I would create an Image similar to the style of LaChappelle's by adding colour to this dull image. I also wanted to make a comical image that is rather unrealistic. I first found an image of an ice cream van and customer and copyed it onto a new layer. I placed it to the side of the track and feathered the edge of the van. I then placed a fun fair ride in the background next to the heard of wilderbeast. There was not a break in the heard so I had to clone stamp the grass in front before hand to erase some wilderbeast to make room for the fair ride. I then motion blurred the people on the ride to make it look as if they were going fast. I looked at the sky and noticed there was a big space; big enough to put a plane in. I took a lancaster bomber and placed it on a new layer. I then selected it and resized it by holding shift to keep it to scale. I then used the motion blur on it like I had in the previous image. I originally envisaged changing the hue to make it look almost cartoon like (like LaChapelles) however I didn't want to make too many changes to the image and I was pleased with the image in the end because the idea of a fun fair in the masai mara was rather interesting. Following on from this the lancaster (a second world war bomber) in the masai mara was also rather 'different'.

Filters

I decided that instead of taking one single image and transforming the whole thing by using one filter that I would select certain aspects of a single image and use a range of different textured filters and apply those to the selected areas.

To do this I first unlocked my layer by duplicating it. I then took the magic wand tool to select the sky and went to the filters. I decided to use one of the sketch filters and used the notepaper one. I kept it in black and white because I still wanted a bleak looking photo. I changed the hue slightly to create a light looking sky.


I then used the polygonal lasso tool and cut around the different buildings to create an image with a range of textures. I also added pieces of colour by colourizing certain area by clicking the colourize button.

I had an interesting image in terms of buildings but I thought the Thames needed to look more interesting. I cut around it and used the photocopy filter because I wanted to create a dark dirty looking river to keep in theme with the grey dull sky. I also wanted to create a prevoking image by doing this because it looks like oil that may have spilled from boats.