Example of stop motion

Stop motion is a technique used to make an object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. This has been used in such things as "Wallace and Gromit" in the form of clay and during each shot, the clay is moved slighty to make it look as though it is moving. Above there are some examples of stop motion which has been used in a music video and in an advert.

using levels

Here I have used levels to enhance the photo.

2nd try at inserting another photo

This is my second attempt at inserting another picture into one of my photos. I feel that I have made a vast improvement since me previous one. I am now confident with using this technique and I will try to incorporate this in some of my photos later on in the course.

To start with I used the magic wand tool to select the background. I then used the invert botton so just the object was selected. This is only possible if the background colours are simular. I then need to make sure the right parts of the object were selected so I used the selection brush and removed some of the background that was not selected by using the magic wand tool. Also some of the object may have been selected that you need so you click on subtract and then de-select the section. I then contracted the area by one pixel so that that the object would look more realistic and not have a ring around the object. I then feathered it by 0.5 to further increase the realisticness of the photo. Then using Ctrl + C you copy the object then using Ctrl + V you paste the object into the landscape photo that you have chosen. Once you have done this you can then play around with the different positions to see what looks best. Then select the layer in which the object is in then go on filter then blur then motion blur and this enables you to blur the object you make it look as though its moving.

Here is another attempt at inserting another object into a photo. I am now pretty confident using this technique and will apply it to later projects further on in the course. Unlike the one above this one is made to look serious and I feel that I have accomplished that.

Here are the photos that I used to make my final image.

Inserting an object into another image

inserting a picture into another photo

Here are the photos I used to make the final image which is shown below.

Heres the final photo in which include the train that can be seen above. I feel I have a full understanding of how to carry out this technique and feel I can do it to a relitively high standard.

using filters - stamp black and white

in this picture i have used the stamp filter using black and white as the colours to get this image. i think the filter looks good for this particular photo as there are not many colours in it however it could be improved by changing the contrast of the photo. this will mean that the parts that have not shown up on the edited version will show up.

using filters - graphic pen