collage effects with images and text
I have selected one of my images and used this to develop my skills in making new images using effects and repitition of the image in different ways. The original image is of the remains of some Italian posters on a wall and I chose this because of the plain background and the text. The complete orginal picture is to the left.
This photo was taken with a DSLR camera during a trip to a city called Sulmona in Italy. There are lots of examples of posters on walls there and I took this photo because I liked the colour combinations and the remains of the poster showing torn paper against the soft colour and texture of the wall.
This photo was taken with a DSLR camera during a trip to a city called Sulmona in Italy. There are lots of examples of posters on walls there and I took this photo because I liked the colour combinations and the remains of the poster showing torn paper against the soft colour and texture of the wall.
For my first work on making new images out of one image I have cropped the image and then made a repeat tiled pattern and this looks like wallpaper or fabric design. I am pleased to have succeeded in developing my skills in this work but I do not see this as successful as the change from one copy to another copy is too sudden.
This is something that I may try with other photographs that I take and I may try using the photoshop/photomerge tool to create smoother looking pictures overall without the sudden change from one copy to the next. |
The second attempt is slightly different as I have tried to group some copies of the images and rotated some copies to see how different patterns might show when the words are not running left to right.
Like with the first attempt above, I don't think this is the right picture to try this with but this is definitely something I will try with another picture. I am interested to see how it gets a bit confusing to try and read the words when they are sideways or upside down. However I will probably try this again with a face or landscape picture. |
This version used simple tools in Powerpoint to reverse copies of the image to make mirror effects around the centre of the collage. I am particularly pleased with the effect as there are new shapes appearing around the text as well as new shapes from the effect.
I want to try this effect in future work and like the last picture I think this might be effective with a portrait or landscape photo. Below are some examples of more tools in PowerPoint. I have used the re-colour tool for the first set and this shows a series of the same picture with different levels of colour saturation with the left-hand version having least colour to the right-hand one having very bright colours. The second set uses increasing brightness and this shows an interesting effect which I think is successful and something I will use again if I am making a collage of photographs. |
The last example here is a version which I have applied a filter to in Photoshop (Glowing Edges). I then took this into PowerPoint and create slits of the one image arranged next to each other to break up the image. This has been inspired by looking at landscapes by the photographer Fong Qi Wei - he has taken a series of photos of one scene over a long time and then sliced them together, This shows how colours change through the day.
The right-hand photo shows how the image looked before I made slices from it |
The last example is my favourite and most successful. I have taken a copy of the jmage into Photoshop and create duplicate layers of itself. Then I have changed the opacity to 50% for the top layer and used the Move tool to shift the layer over and this creates the effect of seeing copies of one image faintly over the original. This also reminds me of photos by Fong Qi Wei and this idea is something I may work on more in other photographs. To develop this idea I may also change the colours of some of my duplicate layers.
Below is a gallery showing all of the images together. I have included this so I can quickly check the images and how they appear as I made them. I can use this to check the images and when I want to remember how I achieved different effects using one image. |