Johnson-+Texture


 * Original 1**
 * Original 2**
 * Original 3**
 * Original 4**
 * Final Piece**

In order to create my final Combined 3 image I had to do some simple things in order to create the best piece I could. One of the main things I had to do was remove parts of certain pictures in order to get what I wanted so that I was able to show all of the pictures of my piece. This played a bit part in creating the overall look of my piece. Next came the difficult part and that was adjusting each of my pictures to get it to look like one piece and to give it an over all theme. I wanted to do something cool and a little out of the ordinary for this project and since October was coming upon us I figured to make something a bit creepy to help go with the upcoming holiday.

Most of what I did to my pictures was to change the coloring of it to make it darker and to add the reds and make a creepy atmosphere to it. Adjusting the background was huge in doing so along with the other pictures. I wanted them to have a similar color them to them and then the contrast of the black and white invert of the skull that was there. And to help this I used the doge and burn tools along with changing the levels, curving the pictures, mixing the channels, adjusting the hue and saturation, and changing the exposure levels as well. Also to make all the pictures look a bit see through, aside from the webbing, was making changes to the Opacity and Fill of two of the layers. Changing size and moving the pictures around helped too. The final result was the creepy and dark picture presented.

Moving on to the more important things are the composition and the texture of my pieces. For the main photograph I used mostly fill the frame but a little bit of depth of field as well. I liked how the sun shown through and how some of the leaves where highlighted by that and making it look later in the day then it really was. So having all those dark spots and some lighter ones worked well. As for texture I used a few. I used the unique texture and shine of the spider’s web, the strange crescent shape of the leaf the uses leading lines by not only the natural curve of the veins in the leaf but the way it has dried. Next smooth texture of the plastic skull and all the lines of it and these were similar for the main photograph as well.

For this project I think I was very successful with my combination of the pieces. I managed to change enough of the elements in all four of my pictures to how they needed to be in order to work well. I added several different textures the combined well into one piece and it turned into what I wanted and what I imagined for those particular photographs. One thing that I might make for next time is to maybe go in a brighter direction. Maybe make something happier instead of something that is dark. Overall I feel I completed the assignment to the requirements needed.