Quartaroli-+Texture







 To create my final photograph I first took the picture of the sun and set it as the first layer. As you can tell it was originally light blue, but I wanted to add contrast to the bench so I darkened to contrast level and darkened it. Next I added the photograph of the tree, again it was too light for the picture so I made it darker and decreased the contrast. I placed this picture on top of the picture of the sun so that they lined up and they looked like they were a single photograph by decreasing the opacity. Next I added the picture of the wooden bench; I kept it the original color because I wanted it to be the main focus of the picture, and however I did sharpen the shadows to make it pop. I placed this on top of the other two layers. I had to erase around the bench so that you could see the new background verses the old one. Finally I took a picture of some dry grass and cut around it so that you could only see the sticks and then copied and pasted them multiple times into the new picture rotating them in different directions or flipping them. Over all I wanted the composition to be asymmetrically symmetric, meaning that they are balanced on both sides but also different so that they weren’t identical. I really wanted to emphasize the roughness of the wood and the hard yet soft texture of the snow. I believe that I was successful on this assignment being that it was my first time using Photoshop, of course it could be better but I’m using this project as a learning experience.