CSE 455 Image Scissors Artifact

Andy Dumovic

Making the Image

First I selected the following two source images:

and….

The first thing I did was clean out the nasty little tag showing where I got the image from (which you can see in the above image and not in the composite).

Second, I opened up my handy little program and traced around most of the hippo but left some of the water that was beneath him.

Then I saved this image as a mask….

I imported this mask into photoshop, and used it to cut out the part of the hippo I wanted. Then I put this rough hippo into my scene and used the color effect on the paint brush to make him match my scene a little better. You can see in the image below, I put a small stripe of coloring through the center of the hippo.

After that I copied the hippo, flipped it vertically and put the copy underneath the original hippo so that it looked like a reflection. Then I made the copy of the hippo a little transparent so that it took on more of the hues of the water beneath it. I then joined the two hippo images into one image (merged their layers) and applied some Gaussian blurring, since the image of the hippo was much sharper than the woods. As a final measure, just to make it less obvious how crappy my composite was, I shrunk the entire project down to 800 by 600.