1. Photoshop
Portrait Photomontage
Anthony/Randall Team Project
October 2011

2. Project Purpose
• To visualize your poetry into images
• To enhance your Photoshop skills
We will learn more about the following Photoshop skills:
• Overlay
• Creating a Layer mask
• Adding text
• Magic wand/Quick selection tool
• Opacity
• Layers (naming, moving, hiding)
• Filters

3. Artist Inspiration- Mee Kyung Shim
• Began painting at the age of
11 in her hometown, Suwon,
South Korea.
• 1999- She received her
Masters of Fine Art at the
Wayne State University in
Michigan.
• Her art attempts to combine
her Korean cultural heritage
with contemporary Western
pop culture.
• Her hope is help others
discover "self-awareness in an
increasingly multicultural
world" through her paintings.

4. More works by Mee Kyung Shim

5. Step One-
Changing your Image to B&W
What you need:
• Find your headshot image
BEFORE and open in Photoshop
• Go to Image --> Image
adjustments--> Black &
White
• Click "Auto" then "OK"
• Duplicate the background
by going to Layers -->
Duplicate Layer
AFTER

6. Step Two-
Creating a Layer Mask Your layers should
look like this in this
• Add a new layer order for now...
• Click the Paintbucket tool
• Select color black
• Click the new layer
• Go to "Duplicate Background
copy" layer and use quick
selection tool to select your
body
• Click back to the black layer
and click "delete"
You should appear with a black
background around you-->

7. Step Three-
Choosing images to convey the poetry
LOOK AT THE TEXT:
The oak tree stands noble on the hill
Find images that
even in cherry blossom time
are photos and
illustrations to
SEPARATE OUT THE VISUAL ELEMENTS:
vary the look.
The oak tree stands noble on the hill
even in cherry blossom time
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

8. Finding Different Types of Imagery
In poetry, sometimes you have to convey feelings or emotions,
or other concepts with an image.
How do you visualize concepts like "Love", "Anger",
"Suffering"?
Think about what the words mean to you, and how they can be
described? What images can represent these ideas?
REPRESENTATIVE SYMBOLIC LITERAL

9. Step Four-
Using Overlay, Filters, and Layers to
create the Photomontage
• In order for the images to fit inside of
your own image, they must be between
the layers of your background and the
layer mask.
• To put an
image over the
black
area, place
on top of layer
mask.
• For the effect of transparency, use layer overlay,
change opacity, and experiment with filters to get
desired look.

10. Step Five-
Adding the Poetry Text Layer
Make sure your text layer is the
top layer and that the color
contrasts with the background.
You can change font,
size and color when
you are on the Type
tool.

11. Example of Finished Product
Finished Product!-
Save as Format --> JPEG when complete.