Compositions

Each of these compositions were created with the use of Photoshop.

This composition is a development of my work based on photographer Rebecca Parker, who uses natural settings in her photography work and was created using images entirely from the internet, one of which was taken by Rebecca Parker. This was created by blurring the background to begin with, before cutting the portrait images used out of their original images with the quick selection and eraser tools and importing them in as 3 separate layers on top of the background layer. The same method was repeated with the flower images which were then placed over the top of parts of the portrait images. The text was created by typing out the words "Nature", "Beauty", "Flora", "Blossom", "Freedom", "Peace", "Tranquility", "Serene", "Calm" and "Oasis" into separate text boxes using the type tool, duplicating these layers numerous times and placing the words into rows in the background of the images.

This composition was also created using images entirely from the internet, and is based on my "Behind the Mask" research. This was created by creating a new canvas for the background and using the paint bucket tool to fill it black, and then cutting each of the portrait images out from their original images using the quick selection and eraser tools. These were then imported onto the new canvas as 3 separate layers, and the text, a dictionary definition of "mask", was then created in a separate layer with the use of the type tool and was then placed in the top right corner of the canvas.

This composition was created in a similar way to the previous 2 compositions, but was created using my own images, unlike the others. To create this I opened the first image, which is used as the background, and then cut out the two portrait images from their original images using the quick selection and eraser tools and imported them onto the background image as 2 separate layers. The text layer, which is a quote from musician Alex Gaskarth, was created using the type tool as another layer and was placed in the top left corner of the image.