| Travis M. Wright | |
| The Making of My Artifact for CSE 455 Project 1 | |
| The Artifact | The Background |
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| This is the final piece. In addition to the layers and masks shown below, I added some shadowing and added the light boxes around the fish. I’m not sure I like the boxes now, but I wanted to give the impression of an invisible canvas. Things didn’t turn out quite how I envisioned them but I was really limited by my lack of experience with Photoshop. | I used this simple, royalty-free clip art image of clouds as my starting point. |
| The Masks | |
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| The first element is a picture of me. | This is the mask that selects just me. |
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I realized that I wanted my arm in the final image so I took a separate picture of it. |
This is the mask I applied to isolate my arm. |
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| The final image a used was this tropical fish. | This mask isolated just the center fish. |