Digital Montage is a photoshop exercise that involves: 1) Creating a digital montage by deliberately taking at least two pictures with the same camera and lighting and combining parts of each image. 2) Making a digital montage using selection techniques like quick mask and feathering and importing images from the internet or other files. 3) Researching examples of montages like the Cottingley Fairies, Oscar Rejlander’s 'Two Ways of Life', and Paul M Smith’s 'A Night Out' as well as works by John Heartfield, Jerry Uellsmann, and Nancy Burson and commenting on how the montages were created and the message they aim to

1. Digital Montage
Finish the ‘ Improve a Portrait’ exercise in photoshop , demonstrating use of :
cropping, levels, curves, selections, quickmask, feathering, clone stamp,
blurring ( + other tools you may want to demonstrate).
1) make a digital montage in which you have planned all the shots; ie. You
have deliberately taken at least 2 pictures with the same camera and same
lighting conditions, and then taken part of one picture and put it into the other.
2). Make a digital montage using the ‘improved selection techniques’ that you
learnt in the previous exercise.( quick mask , feathering). You can import
pictures from the internet or other files that you have saved).
3). Research ; the Cottingley fairies; Oscar Rejlander’s ‘Two ways of life’, and
Paul M Smith’s ‘A night out’ and at least one of the following: John
Heartfield; Jerry Uellsmann ; Nancy Burson’s ‘ Beauty Composites’ and the
Cottingley fairies; and comment on how the Montages were made in each
case (or not made in the case of the Cottingley Fairies), what the picture is
trying to say and what you think of them.
4. Find two examples of Photoshop montages from magazines and
newspapers ( for instance in adverts) . Find one that you like and think is
really good – and one that you think is not good – explain the reasons for your
choice.