Celebrity Look-Alike

Visual Assignment Number 1: The Process…

So I saw this two-star assignment and knew right away I had to do it. I featured a very close friend of mine named Matt in my creation. He bears striking resemblance, in my opinion to the  well-known actor, Shia Labeouf. Anyways, moving on, I decided to take a picture from Matthew with him looking all spiffy in his tuxedo. I then acquired a similar picture of Shia off of google, also in a tuxedo.

It wasn’t too incredibly difficult to get these two photos merged onto the same canvas. To be honest, I’m a novice when it comes to Adobe Photoshop, which is the program I used to get these photos together. To do this, I first checked the specs of the first photo and doubled the width after going to the “Images” and selecting “Canvas Size“. To get the picture of Shia onto the now enlarged canvas, I opened up a new layer and then opened up my picture of Shia. I then dragged him onto the Canvas, allowing me to place both pictures side-by-side. I also added text by clicking on the Horizontal Type Tool on the left          sidebar.

The final step to the image creating process was to do some editing in iPhoto. I added the Vignette effect and bumped it up to level two, which I thought gave the photo a view when comparing the two handsome devils. I also messed around with the contrast, sharpness and definition levels to make sure it looked good. This was basically my process, and like I said, I am a total novice so, as always, any and all feedback is appreciated. Hope you guys check this out, and see you next time! Ciao..