B2TextureMcCormick

Sage's Originals















Sage's Final



Clocks are a representation of time, which I tried to create as the theme to my project, while emphasizing texture. The background was of a clock we took apart and whilst removing the face of the clock, the gears instantly grabbed my attention due to the amount of texture each one displayed. The next picture, of Ally, displayed many different textures in the environment around her. I used the lasso tool in order to copy and paste (which became the basics to bringing my pictures to the background) and used transform size to change the size of the pictures I brought in, making them shrink to the relative size of the gears. I then started using blending-fill opacity to make my photos fade enough that you could see the gears behind them but you could also still see the other original photographs, which allows the viewer to see two different types of texture. I had to use the erase tool for most of my pictures, but didn’t do the best with my skeleton, which was a challenge enough as the bones have their own smooth texture, so I left it the way it was, but it didn’t turn out horrible. I also had to crop parts of my photographs out, such as the leaves in the tree Ally was holding and weren’t needed, and the water tower behind the intricate bench which was distracting and tacky. I used the transform horizontal flip to flip the image of the flower so it would fit the smooth curve of the gear more appropriately, which made it easier to erase the extra background. Likewise, I used the transform flip vertical to reflect the image of the carved gravestone so it was upright, instead of the unique view in the original photograph in order to give the viewer a better insight to the theme. After finishing the last of the composition, I finished by adjusting the brightness and contrast of the final photograph, therefore, completing the last steps to finishing my final photoshopped photograph.

My piece, considering I used Photoshop for the first time, turned out pretty amazing because I was able to create a theme to my photoshopped photograph. The best way to improve would be to ask for help and try to learn some new techniques with different tools to make the images blend more smoothly into the background and to give the layered images a smoother cut. Overall, I believe my piece is unique, tells a story, and conveys different kinds of textures throughout the whole piece.