Plane picture.

This is my compositing picture in which I placed an image of a plane onto another background and tried to make it look as if it is flying.

I used the magic wand tool to remove the plane from the white background, by using the lasso tool I was able to ensure that I had got all of the picture and not missed any bits. I then folowed this with the feather feature to remove 0.5 pixels to shave a tiny amount from the plane to make sure I didnt take any white background with it.

I pasted the plane onto the background image and used the move tool to place the plane exactly where I wanted it and resized it to make it look further away. I used the motion blur tool on a copied layer of the plane to make it look like it was moving, then I erased the blur on the front of the plane so that it looks like it was gliding through the air. I also blured the background to make it look like a panning shot and put extra blur on the rock to overexagerate the focus on the plane.

Filters

In this image I used the filter that increased the graininess to 6 and the brightness to 10. This allowed the the light to be drawn out and the colours were stretched. This either gives the impression that the image was poorly taken or it has been adjusted after shooting, here it is made to look like it has been sorted after, a comment was made that it looks like a film scene of a nuclear bomb.

This image was adjusted using the spherize filter and worked to -100 so that the camera looks like its in the middle of a sphere and the image is printed on the inside. This gives the impression that a special type of lense was used or that the train is going fast round a corner.

Filters

Here is my image that I altered by using the mosaic tile filter, I set the tile size to 100 and the Grout width to 6, then I made the Grout lightness to 1 to make the tiles really stand out over the image. This filter gives the image a broken up feel and also destorts the flow of the picture, the line that the eye would normally take across the picture is disrupted by the tiled effect.

This time I used the Chalk and Charcoal filter on my photograph, it enhances the light in my picture by working in black and white and showing the balances of light throughout the image. I set the Chalk effect to 5 and the Charcoal effect to 5. By using this filter it gives a greater sense of depth to the image and makes it feel old and artistic, rather than a modern photograph of a historic scene.