Composited Images

For this assignment, we had to composite, or combine, two or more images into one.

One of our composted images had to be made up of two of our abstract pictures we took last week. The picture above is the close-up of a fork, made to look like the prongs are sticking through a blacklight bulb. I achieved this effect by first putting the blacklight bulb over the picture of the fork, lowering its opacity to give it the see-through quality of a lightbulb. I then used the magnetic lasso tool to select both the left and right sides of the prongs, copying them, and then pasting each of them into its own separate layer above the lightbulb. By rounding the edges it looks like the prongs are cutting through a round object.

The image above is the empty shell of a cracked egg, with two flowers put into the egg. I changed the brightness of the flower to better match the lighting in the original egg picture, although I'm not too happy with how that came out (by this time I had not learned much about lighting yet). First I selected the cracked inner edges of the eggshell and cut them out of the picture. I then imposed the flowers into the empty egg, and pasted the cracked edges over the flowers, giving the illusion that they are inside the egg.

I found this image to be a lot more difficult than I thought, and I am not happy with the way it came out. I wanted to make it look as if a ship were being swallowed by a wave, keeping the viewer wondering whether the wave was large or the boat was miniature. In the spirit of only using my own images, however, the only suitable picture I had of a ship was from far away, so I could not get that bluish quality of sky away from the ship's masts without erasing the masts or drawing them over, which did not look good. I cropped part of the wave to make it seem as if it were crashing over the ship, although it did not come out so well.