Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Compositing an Image




This is the plane that I have had to composite onto the other image, in order to do this I jad to first select the whole plane to be copied onto the other half of the compostion. In order to do this I used the magic wand tool to select the white background, however this only selected the white whereas I needed the plane so I inverted the selection so that instead of having the plane as the only thing not selected it was the thing that I had selected. The only problem with this was that some parts of the plane had not been completely selected and some parts of the background where still selected, in order to select and deselect the parts i needed I used the polygonal lasso in order to get a straight refined edge to my selection.
So that I didn't have a "halo" around the edge of my picture I had to feather the image by 0.5 pixels. This then meant that I could easily copy and paste this plane into the other half of my composition.

To make the plane look more as if it hasn't been photoshopped into this image I needed to resive it and keep the proportions constrained, I needed to resize the plane down to about 75% of it's original size. To make the plane look as if it is turning I rotated anti-clockwise this gave the effect that it was turning away from the camera. The only problem with this picture now is that it doesn't look as if it is moving as there is no motion blur in order to change this I went into filters->blur->motion blur, I then needed to make sure the angle on the blur is the same as the angle that the plane is flying in, then made the distance for the blur abour 15 pixels. However when something is moving the leading edge doesn't blur so that is why I made this on a copied layer of the composited image so that I could delete the leading edge this made the plane look like it was moving and made it look very realistic.

Stained Glass filter


This filter changes the image completely, it may however been in a very different way to changing the colour to black and white it still makes the image look drastically different from the original and makes it look surreal.

Tiles filter

This filter is completely different from the first two filters I used as it is in colour. The use of the tiles in this picture creates a very rough, jagged and imperfect feel which is a juxtapostion with the buildings in this image which are all very perfect and crisp.

Photocopy filter


The next filter that I used was the photocopy with the detail on it set to high. The effect I found on this one was very similar to the effect that i found with charcoal, however with this image it doesn't provide the same effect and feeling that the charcoal does as it doesn't capture as much of the definition that is captured by the charcoal.

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Charcoal Filter


This is my original image I have chosen to use this image as it has a good variation of colour and the large open areas on both the top and the bottom of the image create a good contrast between the top and the bottom.


This is my image after I applied the charcoal filter I turned up the charcoal thickness from 1 to 2 as I felt that this gives the image more definition and increases the impact of the black and white charcoal effect. I also changed the light/darkness so that it was easier to see the detail of the charcoal filter.