Assignment 6: Trompe L'Oeil

The Instructions:

Now is the time to put your knowledge of what we've studied so far to the ultimate Photoshop test: Trompe L'Oeil!

Combine elements of two or more images into one in such a way as to fool the viewer into believing what they see is an original photographic scene.

Colorization, feathering selections, and slight filter manipulation can often be used to mask some of the coarser aspects of the cut-and-paste routines, but please be subtle!

Unlike our "Selection Tools" assignment from week three, the goal here is to make the final images look natural. Considerations of paramount importance are perspective, lighting, contrast, color balance, relative sharpness (or lack thereof) of the original images selected for compositing.

Upload at least two of your original images, as well as the Trompe L'Oeil composite, so I can see where your final came from.

You may select any images in the Corcoran Online Image Library, or use your own scans of photos or drawings, Photo CD images, or copyright free stock photography. As always, please do not use images you do not have a right to use! Respect the copyrights of others, someday you may want YOUR work protected in the same way!

--KPT Saint

The Results:

Versailles -- Don Morehouse Mac Duo 230 and Adobe Photoshop (83KB jpeg) This is a composite photograph of two scanned images that I took on two different trips: one to Versailles and the other to Morocco.

	Bullfighter/Venezuela -- JaneM17941 Color Mac (31KB jpeg) This is a picture I took at a bullfight in Venezuela, scanned and cropped.
	This is a picture I also took in Venezuela, but in a remote area in the mountains. The picture was taken with a panoramic camera.

This is an image with the two pictures together. Because of the depth of the background, the bullfighter and bull look like they are in the foreground, very close up. I added more dust and also skewed the perspective of the bullfighter/bull.

Pyramid -- VJacobsen Color Mac (92KB jpeg) "Fool the Eye" assignment.

	Source photo 1 for assignment 6.
	Source photo 2 for assignment 6.

Elephants -- Stephen667 Color Mac (105KB jpeg) We lived with them for almost three months before they truly accepted us as members of the herd.

	First piece of composite image for CO 220 assignment 6.
	Second piece of composite image for CO 220 assignment 6.

Overlook -- AFH Alex Win95, Photoshop 3.0.4, Ofoto 2.0 (51KB jpeg) Beverly and I hauled ourselves up Diamond Head and reached an overlook. I was idly toying with a stone in my pocket that I had picked up on our last expedition to Monte Alban. One moment we were gazing over Honolulu; the next moment we were at the edge of the universe. Hold onto your hat, pardner, the ride has just begun.

	Original image (1 of 3) Scanned on a Canon IX-4015 flatbed scanner using Ofoto 2.0 (before enhancement), from a photo taken at Diamond Head.
	Original image (2 of 3) Stock photo of Machu Picchu, Peru, from the Corel Draw 6.0 CD. (This is a low resolution copy.)
	Original image (3 of 3) A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion.