berg+texture+combine+3



First and foremost, I thought the outcome of my final combined pictures was rather successful. Of this whole project--the hardest part of it was to come up with a concept. After days of pondering for one, I decided it to be “respect and honor”. I picked this concept because I know there are a lot of unrecognized people who do daily goods for the US. You can see their name, NOT their story.

To create the texture combine-- I first started off with adjusting the levels of the original picture. The colors were very bland and dull so I choose to adjust the levels. Secondly, I then adjusted the color balance. The moss on the gravestone was overruling the lighting so I balanced the darker colors to lighter so the letters were more visible. I then switched over to my american flag photo and cropped the flag onto the original. Luckily, it turned out perfectly. To make the position of the flag not so awkward, I flipped it 180 degrees so it lined up with the line on the left of the photo seperating the gray from the red on the headstone. To bring out some of the darker areas of the flag, I adjusted the levels on the flag. Next, using the erased tool, I changed the opacity of the flag to make it transparent. After, I adjusted the color balance to bring colors out behind the flag. In my original picture, on the very right corner-- it is just a white area. So, I selected the corner, and inserted that specific area into another image. I then put the scaled photo into the original corner. Lastly, I adjusted the levels of the new corner picture so it wasn’t as bright as it was originally.