BY CLAIRE CONDRO, MAGGIE EMERSON, AND EDWARD KLEIN Cultures of the World Examining the cultures of France, England, and Peru.

BY CLAIRE CONDRO, MAGGIE EMERSON, AND EDWARD KLEIN

Cultures of the WorldExamining the cultures of France,

England, and Peru

France, England, and Peru

Creating the title image

Gathered 6 pictures of famous landmarks from each location of interest

Cut them out using the magnetic lasso, and lined them up on a blank page so that they looked like a skyline

Once the images were where as desired, the images were flattened into one layer, and the layer was duplicated and flipped in order to create the reflection

Reduced the opacity of this layer, and added color and texture to the backgrounds using more photographs.

Added a glow to the skyline layer by using the Layer Properties tab

Street Signs

Street signs from Paris, France, Lima, Peru, and London, England

Creating the street signs image

The base image was of the corner of a brick wall and the sign that says “Barton Street”

The 2 additional signs were cut from other images using the magnetic lasso tool and pasted onto the base image

The images were rotated and skewed to match the perspective of the original sign

The pattern/stamp tool was used to replicate some of the brickwork behind the 2 additional signs

The coloring of the 2 additional signs was dulled (by selecting the area and changing the hue/saturation) to match the coloring of the original sign

Road Signs

Yield signs

Creating the road signs image

The 3 yield signs (France, Peru, and England from left to right) were cut from other images using the magnetic lasso tool and pasted onto the background image

All three were rotated and skewed so that the perspective was the same for each sign

Below the right two signs, the pattern/stamp tool was used to replicate the field and sky and cover up the shadows that came from the original images

The white in the left-most yield sign was dulled to match the other signs using hue/saturation reduction

Public Transportation

Examples of public transportation in

the 3 cultures

Creating the transportation image

The background image was the world mapThe train, the boy with a llama, and the bus

were cut from 3 other images and moved onto the background

The images were positioned onto the map coming from the respective places of origin

Education

Schools in Peru,

England, and France

Creating the education image

The education image depicts classroom setting in the 3 different countries in the shape of the respective countries

Outlines of the 3 countries represented were carefully cut out and placed on the picture of their education photo

Leaving the background activated, the background eraser tool was used to cut the photos of education in the shape of their country

The three photos were then placed upon a blue ripple background in their relative geographical position

Food

“Classic” food dishes

Creating the food image

The background was created in a blank Photoshop document by coloring in a wooden table

Images of a main dish, a dessert and a drink representative of each of the 3 cultures were cut out using the lasso tool

The food images were placed on white dishes using the lasso and move tools

The place cards were created to indicate which food corresponded with which culture

“Set the table" by putting the dishes onto the table

People of the World

People on a busy street, surrounded by aspects

of their respective cultures

Creating the people of the world image

The background for this image was created from 3 pictures of the types of roads that one would find in each country

Cut out portions of all three road images and placed them next to one another in Photoshop

The edges of the 3 road images were feathered so that it looked as if they blended together into one continuous road

A similar technique was used to create the upper half of the background with buildings typical of each place

People representative of each culture were cut using the magnetic lasso tool and pasted onto the road

Pictorial Essay Webpage

http://www73.homepage.villanova.edu/edward.klein/1040/PE/index.html