Collage

One of my photos that really coincide with my font poem that are in my collage would be the background which is a sunset. In my font poem there is mention of a sun so that would be the correlation of to my collage. Also all of the photos I chose for this collage are hidden above the clouds. In my font poem the word “hidden” is used so that is why I chose to use a background that can give the effect as if the object I put in the collage are being hidden. The images I used in my collage were 2 planes and 2 hot air balloons. I used those images because I just thought it would make sense with the background of the collage. I brought the the images in the collage by downloading them and putting them into photoshop. From photoshop I would use the magic eraser tool to single out the main focus of the image I wanted to use. Then I would copy and paste that part of the image into the collage and use the free transform tool to size up the image and put the image where I want it to be featured in the collage. 

The way I positioned the images was I put one hot air balloon in the bottom left corner and the other one in the upper left corner. I put one of the planes I used off centered to the right and the other plane I used was off centered to the right. The image I used filters, a layer mask, and blended was the plane that is off centered to the right. At the first I used the Lasso cropping tool to cut out the part of the image I want and blended the edges of the part that I cropped out. From there I pasted the image into the collage and fully blended the image into the collage by using the magic eraser tool. From there I put a layer mask on the plane and used the darken blending filter on the plane. 

I would say the part of my collage that I’m most proud of would be the placement and filters I put into my collage. I feel those aspects of my collage are what really makes my collage stand out. If I had more time to work on my collage I would’ve figured out a way to incorporate the moon into my collage to have more correlation with my font poem. My strengths in photoshop would be the ability to incorporate certain effects into my photoshop projects to make them more visually pleasing. My weakness in photoshop would be the fact that I’m very unfamiliar with photoshop based on the fact I’ve just started using it this semester. If I had to work on one thing with photoshop would be to just spend more time on photoshop in general to become more familiar with the software.