collage on texture

First me and my partner start off with taking a few pictures outside where there are all diffferent types of textures. We get a few pictures of flowers, trees, plants, rocks and earthly objects. Then by saving them on the computer i choose the best ones for my textural collage. Then i go on the lci comm tech blog and read the article and intrustions that our teacher has left for us. So then i start off by opening photoshop and finding a backround like it said in the article that can portray the feeling of texture with. So i choose a rose from the deviant art website. I choose it because the rose petals has many layers and you can see the soft texture of the pink petals very clearly. Then i choose a picture of rocks because you can see the texture effect of the different types of rocks and then i opened it on photoshop and then by clicking on the MOVE TOOL i move the picture to the rose. When i moved the picture it turned out to be really big so i go up to EDIT then TRANSFORM then SCALE to change the size i prefferd.Then i change NORMAL to LINEAR LIGHT and change the opacity to about 44%. This is so you can see the rose and when you do that to all the pictures they can look like there blended in.Then i go back to EDIT and then go down to FREE TRANSFORM, this is so i can rotate the picture any way i want to. Then i do the same for all the other pictures. As you can see beside the rocks in the collage, is a picture of rocks as well but it was on a wall and i took it from an angle from the top, i think it protrays texture because of the rough feeling of the rocks. Then beside that picture is a picture of many berries which shows texture because of the soft surfaces of the many berries. Then there are two pictures of flowers and i thought they portraied texture because of the petals and colours. then there is a picture of a part of a pine that portraied texture becasue of the many spikes. The picture at the bottom middle of the collage represnted texture because of the flowers, berries and the shape of the leaves together. The last picture in the middle represented texture because of the overlaping of the leaves. Then for the last picture i put a picture of me, i cut myself out with the MAGNETIS LASSO then i slowly erased the parts i didnt get and then i moved it to the collage by using the MOVE TOOL and then resized to the way i wanted it and moved mayslef to the left of the page. I used the picture of myself because of the clothes i was wearing had some texture such as my scarf and jeans. Then i saved it and posted it here so anyone who reads my blog can see my collage. So here is my textural collage, hope you like it. :) sunnie 25

photography intro

Texture can add a significant amount of interest in any picture. Texture is a good idea when you’re taking pictures of rocks, walls, surfaces, someone's hands, or leaves. Generally, the surface characters of an object, e.g. rough, or smooth. In photography, careful control of lighting can be used to describe a surface by adding an obvious quality in terms of depth, shape and tone suggesting three dimensions. In order to make a picture reveal a texture you must make sure the light is coming almost exactly from the side of the surface so it creates shadows in key places.


Linear perspective-The notion of depth given by converging parallel lines, and changes of subject scale between foreground and background elements. A lens with a focal length longer than the diagonal of the film format with which it is used.