Samuel-Texture





The changes that I made from the original photographs are as follows:


 * 1) Enlarged the canvas size on the winding path image.
 * 2) Cropped the winding path image.
 * 3) Flipped the straight path image horizontally.
 * 4) Made both path images black and white.
 * 5) Decreased the contrast on both of the path images.
 * 6) Took a selection of the straight path image and copy and pasted it onto the empty canvas part of the winding path image to make it a separate layer.
 * 7) Increased the brightness of the straight path layer.
 * 8) Inserted the tree image on top as another layer of the image.
 * 9) Lowered the opacity of the tree image so it was see through and you could see all the layers.
 * 10) Increased the greenness of the tree image.
 * 11) Moved tree image to the left and then stretched it out horizontally to cover both of the path images completely.
 * 12) Increased the greenness of the winding path layer.

The compositional technique that I used in the final combined photograph would be leading lines because of how both of the paths are used as lines and when you look at the images, it causes your eyes to get dragged further back into the image following the path.

The texture that I emphasized in the final image would be the texture of both of the paths because of how when you look at those images, it emphasizes the borders of the paths and it focuses on what the texture of the path looks like. As another element/principle of design, I used color because of how I increased the greenness of the image.

I feel like I was pretty successful with this project because I got across the exact idea that I wanted to - I tried to get across the idea of two paths leading off in different ways with a distinct background. For next time though, I would consider changing maybe using more of a defined selection process to get a separate part of an image out of another image to insert into my background because that is one of my challenges and it would help me better my Photoshop skills.