Composite Image Making Work Diary

How I Made The Images

There was a series of steps that I had to follow to create the effect that I wanted when editing the primary and secondary images together. I opened both images within Photoshop and started with the secondary image. For this particular example I used a bird. I began by using the quick selection tool to select the bird and cut it out of it's white background. This left me with an image of a bird with a few white outlines. I zoomed into the image and refined the edges so that there were no white pixels visible on the outline of the bird. I then transferred the secondary image onto the primary image and resized it so that it fit into the landscape. I wanted to keep an element of surrealism within the image so the bird was larger than it normally would be in real life. As the bird stood out within the image, I had to use a mask over the bird to help blend the bird into the background and make it seem more real. I used a paintbrush within this mask that was set to the colour black and had a 30% opacity. I then zoomed in onto the bird and began shading the edges of the bird to blend the bird into the background. This is shown with the two screenshots above. The Composite Image was then complete.


Critical Evaluation
My flaw within this project was that I didn't have enough time to create a thrid image as there was a lot of time spent on editing the two images below. During this project I was learning new editing techniques which also took up a lot of time. Despite this, I feel like the two final images I have created are sufficient and effective to the subject matter of Composite Images.

Progress
This images was edited using the same methods explained above. There was no extra editing, such as editing of saturation and curves, added to the images.