Making my montage

 

 

 

 

 

These are the scans I used to create my montage. I made sure they were all saved at the same resolution so that I could work with them all at the same size.

 

These are some old pictures and polaroids from my Dad's side of the family. There are pictures of him, his Sisters, his Mum and Dad and an old family pet of theirs.

 

 

 

These are some photos from my Mum's side of the family. There are pictures of her, her Sister, brother, Parents and also an old family pet.

 

Here are a couple of letters off my Nanna that I scanned in used parts of in the montage.

 

 

 

 

This is my sweet pea sketch that I used.

 This is a texture that I made myself and used in an image as seen on a previous post. However, this time I turned the paper over to the other side and scanned that side as the other side is a page of music. I screwed up a piece of paper, dipped it in tea, left it to dry and splatted with brown ink (demonstrated in previous post). I thought this would be a good texture to use in the montage as it gives quite an aged and weathered look to fit in with the old photos.

 

 

 To create the montage I used photoshop. Layers and layer masks were needed. I started off with the photos and placed them where I wanted them. Then I added bits of the texture image in the blank spaces that were at the top right and bottom left. If any of the texture overlapped the photos, I just created a layer mask and erased the texture away with 100% opacity and quite a low hardness. I used the multiply blending mode and lowered the opacity a little bit. I repeated this with the parts of the letter and the sweet pea drawing. With the letter, I just selected a couple of little bits from it and used free transform to enlarge it and rotate it how I wanted. I used part of the letter paper at the bottom left aswell.  



 

After flattening the layers, I noticed a couple of white parts so I used the clone stamp tool to clone some of the textured background and fill in the gaps.