Composite Image Making

Composite image making

List the ways in which conventional photographic techniques are used to manipulate images.

• dodge 
• burn
• spot healing brush
• patch
• red-eye
• lasso
• polygonal lasso
• magnetic lasso
• crop
• quick selection
• brush
• pencil
• colour replacement
• clone stamp
• pattern stamp
• eraser
• gradient
• paint bucket
• blur
• sharpen
• smudge
• sponge
• text

Hannah Hoch

This image portrays the idea of art being unconventional. This looks as though the artist has cut out various parts of a magazine and stuck it all together in a structural way. 

Raoul Hausmann

This image is very similar to the one above by Hannah Hoch as it is unconventional art and looks like magazine cuttings. The difference is the style that this artist has accomplished this picture. 

Dada

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature. 

Storm Thorgerson

Thorgerson was an English graphic designer and music video director best known for his work for rock artists such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. In 1968, he co-founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis with Aubrey Powell. They designed many famous single and album covers. 

Tutorial

I opened the following 2 images separately in photoshop:

I used a tool named 'quick selection tool' to outline the image of the duck without the background, which I then copied and pasted into the picture of the pond several times. 

Once I had added the ducks to the image, I changed the sizes of the,m so that they all differed. I did this by selecting the layer that a duck was on and selecting 'alt'+'t'. I could then drag the corners to adjust the size. To make the duck stay consistent, I held the shift key down as I dragged the corners, which I did not do as an example for one of the ducks (right hand side of image above). I then blurred the bottom of the ducks so that it would look as though they were in the water rather than on it. I did this by selecting the layer and painting the opacity on the correct area. 

My work

For this image, I used 7 different images, adding 6 selections to one whole image. I used a picture that I had of a girl as the main image. To start, I opened up a picture of a different girl and used the quick selection tool to outline it, then I copied it into the main image. I moved the eye on top of one of the girl's eyes and repeated this whole step using a different person's eye so that the main image would have 2 different eyes that weren't her own. I did the same thing for the lips, the toy on her shoulder, her body and the flamingo inflatable. I positioned them where I thought looked best. 

For this image, I was inspired by Hannah Hoch, but rather than using physical cut-outs, I used photoshop instead. I liked the idea that you can create an unconventional image as such using literally anything.