Composite Image (Report)

Composite Image - What I Did.
First, for me to make my composite image, I had the options of using various applications to make my composite image. The application that I used to make my composite image was Adobe Fireworks as I am much more familiar with the functions and layout of the application.

Now that I knew what application I should use, I would need to find my two pictures that I could merge together as one. One picture had to be of some place in Derry and the other picture had to be a clear image of my chosen method of Transport, The Train. Although my chosen method of Transport was the Train, A Tram and Monorail are also types of Trains so I ended up making 4 Composite images. Each image went through the same procedure.

Take the Train image, to make this i needed to use 4 functions, I opened the image of a Train and then using my eraser, removed most of the unneccessary "junk" within the image leaving me with a rough outline around the train.

Next, I would remove the "junk" surrounding the Train using the Magic Wand tool which selects a chunk of the image depending on how strong the tolerance is set and also depending on the Edge type from the options of Hard, Anti-alias and Feather. I generally tend to use the Feather edge type when using the Magic Wand tool and then with the Eraser Edge set to 50%, erase around the edges to make sure that all is smooth. This method is known as feathering and is used quite regularly in any professional image manipulations, etc. After I have all the "junk" removed from my train image, I made the background canvas transparent and copied the image and pasted it into the image of Derry.

The image is almost done but still needs some tweaking. We now need to make the train fit much more into the background image, i.e., have the gradient/direction of the Train match the gradient of a building or road. To do this, I would need to shear the Train image so that it fits in perfectly.