When Scavengers Ruled the Computer Science Department

Tim Cook
CSE455 Computer Vision
Project 1 Artifact
  • Original Images
  • Mask Images
  • Final Image
    • Original Images
    Blue, of the Deschutes River coyote pack (picture from hhuckeba on webshots.com), and "beautiful" Sieg Hall, from our very own Gary Yngve.
    Mask made with iScissor.
    This is a cutout of Blue.
    Final Image.

    I wanted the effect of a giant coyote roaming around the primordial computer science department, so I opened up Photoshop and:

  • Step 1: Pasted in Blue as a new layer, then used the mask to delete the background.
  • Step 2: Rotated and slightly resized. Not sure I like the rotation effect.
  • Step 3: To properly convey depth, I needed the smallish tree to be in the foreground, so I copied that chunk of a background onto a new layer.
  • Step 4: An hour of painstaking snipping out the background from the new layer, to moderate effect.