Photo Montage

Realistic - 

I choose to create this image for a few different reasons. My family and I took a trip last weekend and although I took many photographs, none of them had all four of us in them, so I decided to create one (our cat was not included in the trip, but she is a part of the family so I decided to include her). I think  the background image is a really great space and that it works well to house all of the different images. I choose to place the images as I did because of the direction the subjects are facing and their relative size. I utilized the Photoshop layers a lot in creating this project, and found the clone tool especially helpful in making it seem more realistic. 

Fantastic -

I really like this montage. I wanted to create a montage that was fun and carefree, and I think I accomplished this. I choose the cupcakes as the background, because first off who doesn't like cupcakes and secondly, the icing looks very cloudlike and fun to jump on. I then placed images of my friends around the cupcakes it make it seem as though they were jumping and playing around on them. I used the "free transform" tool a lot to make sure their sizes were proportionate to each other. I also used the clone tool many times to blend the different layers together. 

Art in the Time of Technology

There are many ideas on how new technologies and media change the way people view and understand art. Technologies such as cameras, computers and the Internet provide many people with opportunities to see works of art they did not have access to before.


Just this week, an Italian company put online high-resolution images of "The Birth of Venus" and five other masterpieces from the Uffizi gallery in Florence, including works by Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci.

The images have a resolution of up to 28 billion pixels, said Vincenzo Mirarchi, CEO of the Haltadefinizione company that digitized the paintings. That's about 3,000 times stronger than the resolution of an average digital camera.

The company put Leonardo's "Last Supper" online three years ago, but the technology has advanced since then. Today, it shows details up to a hundredth of a millimeter.

The technology entails taking hundreds of pictures of tiny portions of the artwork and then combining them to recompose the whole image. Lighting is crucial, says Mirarchi.

The reproductions can allow researchers and art-lovers to study an artwork from afar, but they also represent a historical document of how a painting appears at a given time.

Images from the collection can be viewed here