clone project

 

While composing the clone project I was easily frustrated and was very confused at the beginning. The strongest part of my work is they placement of the people in my images. It gives the effect of friends hanging out, and all groups of friends have geeky kid that loves school, the ones that don't care and rather sit around and do what ever they feel like. The area I could work on is my picture taking because the lighting was all messed up until I corrected it by using the levels which basically gives the picture better lighting or colors so it looks clearer. The easiest part of the project was placing the layer masks and coloring in the people from the other layers of the image. This was easy because all I had to do is repeat the steps over 5 times and I was done in one class period. The most difficult part of my project was getting the backgrounds to line up because the images weren't exactly the same. This was difficult because not every aspect of the images line up perfectly so you have to be very care to not move while taking the pictures. The tools I used in Photoshop were layer masks, and the brush tool. The layer mask is used to blend layers together, so the image looks like one solid image not just a random person cropped in. The brush tool is used to color in the layers that are under the mask so that you can blend the images. The goal was to take 30 images of one person or thing and clone them into one image 5 or more times. I did exactly that I have 5 images of myself in my living room, and I'm doing 5 different activities. If I were to do this project again, I would take pictures outside that way the picture are clearer and nicer. I would also have my person do very different activities because there is more opportunity outside than inside.