Definitely had fun putting this one together! Merged 2 photos, played around with the color and added a texture; then clonned out all the unwanted overlaps.
@mrssmith Thank you Carla! @httpgeffed Thank you Colleen! @lyno Thank you Lyn. I am usually just experimenting and stop when I come up with something I like. @sarasdadandmom thank you Terry!
@ambermagen@automaticslim I was wondering how many people would take notice of the clothespin tombstone! So you two get the gold stars today for mentioning it! It belongs to a man who made his fortune in manufacturing these clothespin. The story goes that he was quite wealthy when he died but apparently his life was a mess and the family members fought over his estate.
when i was skimming through your albums last night, i saw the clothespin and meant to ask something but now i have the answers reading your replies. the title also gave me a little entertainment for a few minutes. very clever interpretation, ann. i like it!
so how do you merge two photos, i know it could be done in photoshop through layering - which i could never understand how to do and my niece just gave up on teaching me these things. this came out really well, despite cutting off the tombstone beside the clothespin one, my eyes were so tired last night and i was looking at this and laughing at the same time and yet couldn't understand how the marker was cut off.
@summerfield thanks Vikki! I did this in iPiccy and I'm not sure I can remember the exact steps I took to get it, but basically you upload the picture that you want to be the predominant picture. There is a small icon that looks like 3 floating pieces of paper. You click on that and it brings you into the "merge layers" program. The menu will give you options- photo, text, etc. Basically it allows you to work on each layer, one at a time. It's very similar to adding a texture to your picture, but here you can do more than one all at the same time. When you're finished with each layer, you click on merge layers and the computer does the rest. I know that's really sketchy as far as directions go, but I've just begun to play around with it, so I'm not quite sure how to explain everything. You should definitely experiment with it. iPiccy makes it pretty easy. As far as the tombstone goes, I thought about filling it in by cloning (which I did do in a couple other places), but I didn't like what it did to the road, so I left it as is. This was also interesting in that the road shot was in b/w and the graveyard and rays of light texture were in color. But they merged well and I played around with the colors too. I'm glad it gave you a chuckle. It's not meant to be disrespectful but it is an image of what some people think the afterlife might be like.
@bruni Thanks Bruni- I'm trying to do at least 10 of them. I know I won't be able to do the whole month. Most of list I haven't seen (which isn't really a problem) but they seem to be easy enough to have some fun playing around with the words- which is what I did with this one. If I remember correctly the movie itself deals with Pearl Harbor or WWII in some way. I haven't read the book either- but anyway- I was fooling around with the processing and came up with this. It was a fun experiment.
@mhatch Thanks Mark- this was such an accomplishment for me! I'd never tried putting two shots together like this before let alone adding a texture on top of it all!
@mhatch A belated thanks for this comment Mark! Just discovered it while tracking down this shot for another person!
@vposey Thanks Vickie! I'm sorry for the belated nature of this- I just found your comment when I was linking this picture to another person. The only info I know is this. The man whose grave this tombstone marks was the owner of a company that manufactured these clothes pins. I don't recall the name but I do believe the company is still in business somewhere in Vermont.
@bkbinthecity Thanks Brian! It's unique- that's for sure!!
May 4th, 2014
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@filsie65 Thank you Phil!
@digitalrn Thank you Rick!
@groovygirlrn Thank you Sheri!
Thanks to all. I'm glad you like it, 'cause I do too!
@httpgeffed Thank you Colleen!
@lyno Thank you Lyn. I am usually just experimenting and stop when I come up with something I like.
@sarasdadandmom thank you Terry!
@ambermagen Thanks Amber!
@nicolecampbell Thanks Nicole!
@jesperani Thanks Jennifer!
@sangwann Thanks Dione!
@automaticslim Thanks Andy!
@ambermagen @automaticslim I was wondering how many people would take notice of the clothespin tombstone! So you two get the gold stars today for mentioning it! It belongs to a man who made his fortune in manufacturing these clothespin. The story goes that he was quite wealthy when he died but apparently his life was a mess and the family members fought over his estate.
so how do you merge two photos, i know it could be done in photoshop through layering - which i could never understand how to do and my niece just gave up on teaching me these things. this came out really well, despite cutting off the tombstone beside the clothespin one, my eyes were so tired last night and i was looking at this and laughing at the same time and yet couldn't understand how the marker was cut off.
@vposey Thanks Vickie! I'm sorry for the belated nature of this- I just found your comment when I was linking this picture to another person. The only info I know is this. The man whose grave this tombstone marks was the owner of a company that manufactured these clothes pins. I don't recall the name but I do believe the company is still in business somewhere in Vermont.
@bkbinthecity Thanks Brian! It's unique- that's for sure!!