Composite Image Making

Composite Image Making: 
Techniques used to manipulate the meaning of images:
-Changing Brightness
-Crop
-Colour levels
-Dodge and burn
-Contrast/ curves
-Airbrush/ Cleaning images/ patch tool

Research

Dada Art Movement
Dada (/ˈdɑːdɑː/) or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915,^[2] and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works.

Hannah Hoch:


This is a photo composite of a large collection of eyes, the creator may have felt like they had no private life and were constantly being scrutinised by people.

Raoul Hausmann: 


In this image machinery is sprouting out of a mans head while other men wait patiently in the background. This may suggest that he feels like they are no longer individuals, like he is a cog caught in a machine and is meaningless without the machine.


Storm Thorgerson:

How to add objects/ items to another layer in photoshop:
Open your background photograph and your object in two different files in photoshop.

Open your image in photoshop and click on the select tool and click around the background so that it surrounds the duck (your object).


Next you select inverse so that the duck is surrounded not the background, by right clicking and selecting inverse. 

Then copy (CMD+C) and paste (CMD+V) the object and click on your background photo that should be open in the background. It will add it as another layer. 



To move and resize the image use CMD+T, while moving keep the CMD button down to keep the image ratio correct. 



To remove/ blend the image into the background use the eraser tool and change the opacity to 0%, and rub out the desired areas. 

Here is the finished photo:
 

I applied this technique to some of my own photograph, I thought it would be ironic to put big foot into a forest. 

Edited photograph: