The quote I chose was "Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." By John Green from his novel Looking for Alaska. John Green is one of my favorite writers. This quote in particular is mysterious and touching on various different levels, for various different reasons. My goal was the keep the Collage simple, but also give it a fantasy type feel.
I used this picture I took of the sun setting in the Everglades. I enhanced the colors significantly so the picture was more vibrant and intense.
I took a picture of a starry sky off of google and placed it in the sky only, which involved separating the image into various sections.
I used the following image that I took at the beach to add the sand to the bottom of the overall collage.
I used this image of the butterfly I took and used the puppet warp tool to change it's position slightly. I duplicated it and made it smaller and lowered the opacity on each as it goes up the side of the screen to make it seem like the butterfly was flying away.
This image of the moon was taken by my friend through a telescope. I used it in the sky (putting it on a layer above the actual sky and behind the stars) to give the sky a little more of a fantasy feel.
This is a picture of me from when I went to Paris. I used this image because, while I am mostly in shadow, some details can be seen. It blended pretty well with the over all lighting of my image.
This is my final product. I am very happy with it. I made the words 'and I hope it's beautiful.' larger and gave them a higher opacity to make them stand out. I almost didn't add the words, but I thought they were important for the image as a whole.
