Seattle Skyline, Updated

Original Images

Note that images are not shown in their original size here (as all three are fairly high-resolution, and as the two buildings were later scaled down in the making of the artifact).

[1280x960] The original Seattle skyline:


[1024x768] An image of the CN Tower (in Toronto):


[768x1024] An image of the Empire State Building (in New York City):

Masks made with iScissor.

Seattle skyline (so that we may copy/paste the foreground part)


Cutouts of the CN Tower and Empire State Building, to paste in the background of the Seattle skyline:

Final Image.

The following was done using GIMP 2.0 on my Windows machine at home:

Step 1. Using the masks, I cut out the CN Tower and the Empire State building from their respective photographs and moved them to their appropriate locations in the final image (as well as resizing them).

Step 2. I recolored the buildings (lowered red/green values and overall saturation) to make them better fit the lighting of the skyline (in shade, rather than in sun).

Step 3. I then cut out the skyline's foreground using the first mask above, and pasted it over the added buildings (so that they would appear in the background).

Step 4. Finally, I cropped the image slightly to place more emphasis on the added buildings. The final result [1007x690] is shown below.