Creating the Collage

• Choose an image that you find visually appealing. It could be from the MediaSources folder, your own collection, or from the Web (legally).

  If you are doing the project individually:

• Your collage must include an original picture, along with a number of variations of that picture (see below). You might decide to place the original picture in the center first, and then copy your other variations around it, or you might decide to place your variations first, and then copy the original picture so that it overlaps, or even blends with, the variations. Use your own creative freedom to decide how you want to lay out the pictures.

• Your collage must include at least 4 of the techniques, listed below, applied to the original image. (You may also choose some of your own techniques or combinations of these techniques.)

  If you are doing this project with a partner:

• Your collage must include two original pictures, along with a number of variations of those pictures. Together, come up with an idea of how you want to lay the pictures out.

• Your collage must include at least 3 variations of each original picture, but no more than 2 of the same variations on both. (So you need to use at least 4 variations.)

  Variations we have experimented with include:

  • scale (up or down)
  • blur
  • negative
  • grayscale
  • sepia
  • posterize
  • crop
  • reflection
  • rotation
  • drawing
  • graph over top
  • blend
  • background subtraction
  • other color manipulations (reduce red, clear blue, sunset effect, etc)

  Design Questions: How many variations of the original image do you want to include? Will any of them be scaled down or cropped? How big should your new canvas for the collage be? How do you determine this? What functions do you need from other labs? What color effects would look creatively pleasing with your image choice?

• Write functions (or copy some from previous labs and mini-labs) to achieve the variations you choose. You should also have a function that puts everything together to create the collage. This function is necessary so that you have a record of how you created the collage. If you just create it from the command line, there is no way to see how it was made.

• Once you have created something you are pleased with, consider adding a matte around the collage.

• Be sure that you have included appropriate documentation - program documentation at the top of your file, as well as comments before each function describing them. It is also a good idea to include comments inside your collage function to tell which picture is getting copied into which part of the collage.

• Turn in a hard copy of the functions you used to create your collage.
• Display your collage on your course web page.