Intro:
For this photoshop collage, which I title: f.lwer child, by a mix of spontaneity and spelling error, is a mashup of three individual photos. They comprise of a bouquet of flowers, an ELLE magazine cover, and shark infested waters.
Image sources:
Inspiration:
While in class, I believe it was last Monday, we were show some examples of photoshopped images, and one of them had these portraits where the head and neck from collared shirts were cut off, replaced by flowers, starting from their green stems.
This gave me the idea that I could do something of the same concept with a bouquet of flowers, so found the first image of beautiful flowers that have this illustrative property. Then, when I searched ELLE covers, looking for portraits of women and found the photo of this lady with her bouquet-like hair style, I knew that I could make this work. Only when I realized later that I had to incorporate a third image, did I think of the shark invested waters image for the background.
Process:
In photoshop, I used mostly the quick select, magic wand, healing, and clone stamp tools. The quick select and magic wand would let me pick up an oddly shaped amount of the same color, such as the hair, and replace it with another image, such as the bouquet. The healing brush helped me get rid of the text in various places on the skin. The clone stamp helped me do the same same thing as the healing brush, except I used it where there was clothing -the red shirt, to a better effect that the healing brush could not attain. Finally, for the shark background, I used a clipping mask for that layer so that I could adjust its colors without directly affecting the rest of the image.
Final Thoughts:
Not a half-bad job for one of my first photoshop collages. No lie, this wouldn’t be my first time working in photoshop, but it still gave me more opportunity to get better at photoshop and really use it to my advantage.