Week 13

dX- Photo Compositing

This technique opens the doors for all kinds of mischief.  Placing Elvis's head and face on a giraffe's body is fun but there are many times where you need to add someone or something into a photo to complete an image for a billboard or to create an "unexpected" and eye-stopping ads in a magazine. It is also this technique that professional matte artists like Dylan Cole & his colleagues site 2  use for backgrounds and such in movies. This is an excellent site for the technique!

Follow the below video and create a composite of a fish/orange aquarium (note the many other cool tutorials on the side), do that one and then pick another from the lineup on the right of the minimized video. Change up some things if you can such as using another fish, changing the color of the fish, etc. Place both of them on the same page.

...and for those of you who are more ambitious or to add to your things to try over the summer (to combat summer learning loss), try out these as they will triple your ability to create super cool professional Photoshop composites by identifying the basic steps necessary in any good photo composite- 

dx- Online Portfolio

Assemble your best 10-15 with a max of 20 works so far (from 280, 281, & 282) into a folder (NOTE: you will need to save as a JPG or PNG!).  Then go to one of these (or any other you know of and wish to use)-

• Behance

• Adobe Portfolio

• Wix

• Squarespace

• GoDaddy

Once you get up and running you will then need to copy and paste your URL and place in a Word .doc page and upload to the D2L folder for this exercise. You have till finals day to do this as it is an in-class exercise.