Practice composite photo Illustration - DUE TODAY

As you think about and work on your photo illustration (Due Wednesday, May 21) it is useful to practice and to study an interesting professional example.

Time Magazine's April 28, 2008 cover is a perfect example. It is a composite image that has created lots of controversy.

View the cover illustration here.

Read about the controversy here, and vote on what you think about it.


Reproduce the illustration.

1. Open and save the Iwo Jima photo. (It will be in evil index color. You need to change the mode to grayscale)
2. Open and save a redwood photo. (You may substitute another one)
3. Do the following:
A. Erase the backgrounds of both images. (Make sure the tree background is set to transparent)
B. Move the tree image to the Iwo Gima image.
C. Free transform the tree image to fix the size and rotation.
D. Erase pats of the tree image where the Iwo Jima image needs to show through.
E. Save your work.
F. Post your finished reproduction to your blog.