CSE 455 Project 1 -- Intelligent Scissors

Kiera Henning, Final Artifact

My artifact for project 1 is a composite of four images from four distinct internet sources.

The first step in creating the composite was to isolate the elements in the individual images that I wanted to put in final image. I created closed contours of the man doing capoeira and of the eye on the Anubis statue.

Capoeira Man

Mask created from contour

Anubis

Mask created from contour
The next step was to position the masked elements on the background image.
Then lighting was adjusted in photoshop.
As you can see, at this stage, the lighting was much better, but still not quite right. To take us the final leg of the journey, the image on the left got a radial blur, variations adjustment, and lighting effect (ala Photoshop) to produce the image on the right.

Original

After

Then, this altered image was placed in two separate Photoshop layers. One layer was set to effect the luminance (below left) of all the layers below it. The other was set to have the "color dodge" effect (below right) on all layers below it.

Luminance

Color Dodge

The effect of the two layers together:
The final step was to flatten the layers and touch up the resulting image with contact shadows where appropriate.

Voila