Chapter 1 was reading and contained no suggested exercises. It told of subjective (risky) and objective (photorealistic illusions) image composites types. And, the terms montage and collage were sorted out by reference to John Paul Caponigro'sdefinitions devised for being juror for the online exhibition "Deus Machina":
The chapter encourages an organized approach to preparing yourself to create image composites by telling the importance of planning, observing, collecting ideas and images, preparing images gathered, backing up data and then, finally, the fun...the selecting and masking and compositing!
Seeing works of people like Maggie Taylor, Diane Fenster, Jerry Uelsmann and Mark Beckelman is so exciting and inspirational. It makes me want to just dig in and create!
The second part of Chapter 1 is about preparing your workspace in Photoshop by customizing your preferences. Because I am studying The Creative Digital Darkroom at the same time, I have already tended to this. I also have calibrated my monitors using Spyder 3 Pro.
Other information gathered from the reading:
The side bars of the page are images that I worked on the first time I tried to do this book with not enough time and so never fiinished it. I look forward to finishing it this time. The statue below was photographed at the RISD Museum in Providence and I regret not recording the artist so that I can place the name with the work.
I used Quick Mask and the Magnetic Lasso Tool to create the selection.
Images and work are © R.Joanne Johnson unless tagged as images being used from Photoshop Masking & Compositing website.
