B2CondonTextureFinal

My final picture showed a successful use of texture and included three separate pictures combined in one. The first effect I made was to the original sap picture. I choose the lasso effect and cut the background out so it would just be the tree and sap. Next, I used the magic wand to select the tree and sap, and pasted it onto my background picture. Since the tree was originally fit to be on the right side, I reflected the image to the left. This is because on the background, the left side has darker colors which would contrast with the sap picture better. My next edit was to the picture of Ellie. I used the lasso and traced around her body, then got rid of the background. Ellie's body had more detailed and intricate edges, therefore I used the eraser tool to clean up the edges I missed with the lasso like in between her fingers. After that, I used the magic wand and selected her body.This was hard because some part of her were light colored, so not all of her body got selected. I had to use the 'command alt' button to select the parts I wanted and the 'shift' to get rid of the parts I didn't want. Then, I made an effect by clicking 'select inverse'. After that, I copied Ellie and pasted her on the final picture. Since Ellie was too big for the rest of the picture, I re-sized her. To ensure her body was in proportion, I held the 'shift' button while pulling the corner of the image box down (to make her smaller). Lastly, to fit Ellie's body to the shape of the sap, I tilted the image of Ellie. To add a little more effect to the picture, I shaded where Ellie's butt meets the sap. However I wish I would have used a lighter color to shadow, because it kind of looks like a black line that doesn't belong. The compositional techniques that fit my photograph were Rule of Thirds, because of the tree's; Leading Lines, because of the curve around the sap, and all of the vertical lines from the trees in the background; and framing, because Ellie's body is framed by the two largest trees. The elements of art used were line, because of the multiple trees in the background, and texture (obviously) in the grain of the trees, the leaves, the sap, and Ellie's clothes.