PART 2

For the second part of this brief we had to rework two of our own images with the edition of a scanned object. The first image i reworked was this one i took in Manchester of myself.


This one was done with a self-timer, i just propped it on the table and posed! the way i reworked was by first cutting it out on Photoshop using the lasoo tool, shown here.


The next thing i did was to scan in a few of my polaroids with a few other found images from my room at 300 dpi shown below. Reason for it being 300 dpi is because it is the optimum dpi for scanning, it's the quickest and you cant tell the diference between 300 dpi and anything above that quality wise. Here it is.


Once i had the two images on the computer i layered them on top of one another. I selected the scanned image (ctrlA+ctrlC) select all then copy then pressed ctrlV to add it as a layer. I then played around with diferent blends untill i decided on Lighten. Here is the final Image.


For my second image in this section i decided to merge one of my polaroids with one of my digital shots. The idea was to frame the digital shot within the frame of the polaroid creating a new polaroid. Here are the two origional images.



To start with i opened the scanned image of the polaroid in photoshop then i cropped it using the cropping tool. I then selected the cropped image (Free Transform ctrl T) and enlarged insuring that i held down shift whilst doing it so the image enlarged to scale, then pressed enter to render it to full quality. Once this was done i opened the digitalm image. I then layered the scanned image on top of the digital image the same way i did my first image. Because i wanted the polaroid to sit slightly lower than the digital image i increased the canvas size of the digital image. This allowed me to move the polaroid slightly off the edge of the digital image without loosing any of the polaroids frame. Finally i selected a blend that i wanted, lighten again and left the opacity at 100%, here is the end result.