Today, we worked with Photoshop. I've done a little work with Photoshop now and again since... 1998? I know the basics of the program, but not how to use any of the particularly fancy tools (unlike my wife, who is systematically going through our wedding photos and making everyone look ten pounds lighter). Thankfully, we didn't need any fancy tools today, just a basic knowledge of layers and resizing. I was inspired by a neat warning sign from a pamphlet in class, and decided to put me next to it. I was going to put it on a beach, but I couldn't find a good shot of a sign on a pole, so I needed to stick it directly on a wall. A quick internet search later, and I had a nice concrete wall to stick myself on. As a fun twist, the sign now looked intensely out-of-place, as I was now "threatened" by tidal waves in the middle of the city. If I had more time, perhaps I'd bring in an actual tidal wave looming over me.
A simple resizing put me at the right size for the wall. A crop cut off the ground that was at the bottom of the wall picture, so I could put the picture of me, that was only a torso shot, on the wall without revealing its deception. I stuck a simple drop shadow on myself so I look like I'm standing in front of the wall, and then I fiddled with the contrast and brightness on the warning sign. A (very small) drop shadow later, and the warning sign looks fairly authentically in the scene (despite being only a drawing, not a photograph). It's not perfect, but it's not bad for an hour and half's worth of work.
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