Narrative for creating my new image of animals you can find at the zoo.

1. Haley Swiger 10/29/2015
CI 350
Digital Imaging
To create my new image of animals you can find in the zoo, I first found a
landscape area that could be found in a zoo with no animals in it. Then, I found different
pictures of the different kinds of animals. Once I found all the animals that I wanted to
feature in my new image (eagle, elephants, cheetah, red panda, lemur, tiger, ape, koala,
and giraffes), I loaded each photo into Photoshop. With each photo of the animals, I
took the magic wand tool and made an outline around the animal in the original picture.
Once I was happy with the outline around the animal, I would then click on the select
button at the top of the tool bar. This would allow me to drag the outlined animal from
the original photo onto my landscape that acted as my background. I did this with all of
my original animal photos and placed them appropriately throughout the landscape
while trying to pay attention to size ratios with the landscape and the other animals.
There were shadows coming off from the trees and post in my chosen
background image, so I attempted to add some shadows off from the elephants,
cheetah, tiger, and giraffes where I found it was likely it would be cast in an authentic
picture. To create these shadows, I double-clicked on the layers of the animals
mentioned above and created a drop shadow with a fair distance to where it looked
appropriate. Once the drop shadow was there, I then made them into their own separate
layers. This allowed me to skew the layer to make the shadows to make it look like they
were coming off from the animals rather than just have a floating shadow behind them.
Once I was pleased with how the animals were positioned and their shadows, I saved
the Photoshop creation as a JPG image so it could be posted onto Livetext.