For the AGP Digital Imaging Course we had to create our version of a meme. Wanted to create something different and to challenge myself. So, decided to create a hybrid of several ideas: Banksy Pulp Fiction, Pepper Spray Cop and McKayla is not impressed. | Steps were: 1) Get the Pepper Spray Cop's arm to point up rather than down. Cut and rotated his original arm then applied warping and selective cutting of original arm to sit right.2) Get rid of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction. The gun and hand was the main challenge. Had to clone stamp from Jackson's shirt and tie to replace the hole left on Travolta's body. 3) Create the graffiti effect. Used threshold layers then found a brick wall image. 4) Cut out a frame for the 'art work'. 5) Find a suitable gallery image. In many ways this was the biggest challenge. Many images required a lot of playing around with perspective, which just wasn't working. Once I found this one it was relatively easy to cut out bits of the background (woman on chair, head) to go in front of the Banksy. 6) Add McKayla. Pretty straightforward. Only a bit of blur/ smudge required to sit her in. 7) Adjust levels/ colours on composite images. Just needed a bit of warming to sit the originals in more with the colours of the b/g pic. 8) Add the text. Classic image macro text: Impact font in capitals, white with black layer stroke applied. 9) Crop the image and you're done! |