Giantess Collage Workshop

Welcome to my Giantess collage Workshop

Hi folks,
Here you can learn the basics of how to create a good giantess collage. On my journeys thru the www I've seen a lot of giantess collages and some look more realistic than others. But why is it so ? Well, talent might play a role, but there is also knowledge of the techniques required. A good collage is much more than taking a picture and put it into another. This site doesn't show you a step by step way to your collage in photoshop, because every collager should find his own favorite collaging program, it only shows why some collages look better than others and that this NOT depend on how expensive your program was. O.k. this site is mainly for beginners, but perhaps some of you profis out there find a useful hint in here, too. However, it is free and if this workshop help you to make more realistic looking collages or you have some hints for me, then let me know. But now let us start.

Now first of all you need a program you can work with. I've started up with Microsoft Picture It! 2000. A very good collaging program especially for beginners and very easy to learn. You can find a link to it's homepage on my Linksite.
A wellknown program for collaging is Photoshop 6.0 . Here you have nearly unlimited possibilities, BUT this is NOT for beginners. If you don't know someone who works with it and can show you the basics and a bit more you will be more frustrated than successful by using it. On the other side there might be much more talented PC users like me out there, so if you think you are one of them, but don't want to pay so much money for a program, that you have never tested before, you can download sometimes a fullversion of it on KATZWAREZ (enter this in your favorite searchengine)
At the moment I'm working with both. Mainly because of the, in my opinion, bad cut-out tools in photoshop. So I cut out a picture in Picture It!, where you only have to draw the cut-out-line, put it on a "bluescreen" in jpeg format and export it to photoshop...

Once you have a program, you can work with, you need two or more pictures, that REALLY fit together. Don't put a pov shooted woman in a city, photographed from a skyscrapers view, or something similar stupid. So be patient, if you want to make a collage with a woman. I have about 4000 (!) pictures on my computer and somtimes I have to wait till a fitting citypicture comes along.
So there are three things, you have to look for, before putting two pictures
together:

The perspektive: birdview doesn't work with pov.
The resolution: If you have a picture of a woman in thumbnail-size and blow it up to wallpapersize it is very unsharp and looks stupid.
The complete: most time it's no problem, if a part of the women, which you want to put into a collage is cut off, but if this cut off is on more than one side, you loose a lot of possibilities due posing the woman.

On the picture above you can see, that this won't become a realistic collage. The reason is the perspektive. The photographer of the Sarah Michelle Gellar Picture kneeled in front of her (or was this small :-)) You can see, if you have a closer look, that Sarah looks down to you, while the citypicture is taken from a pretty higher position. And if you put them together, it looks like Sarah is falling behind. But now let's start with a "working" collage:

The adventurous looking Picture on the left site shows the perspective of the backgroundpicture (in this case the "vanishing point") Now all you have to do is placing your giantess on the picture and find out on which height the two photoshooters would have the same view/perspective.To do so you should put your model on different places in the picture. If that is not enough you should change the size of your giantess and try it again.
If you believe I always make a chaos like this in photoshop with all the lines and transparent Sarahs then you are wrong. this should only show you, what happens in my head. This is not a geometrical science or something else, because a human is nothing geometrical. It's a combination of "feeling for looking realistic" and experience. So you'll see that you will make better collages, if you try often.

-learning by doing-

Another very important thing, that is often forgotten is the light. It looks very diffrent, if you take a photo indoor or outdoor. On the following pictures you can see, that it can make a lot of difference, if a figure fit into another picture or not. O.k. the example pics are not the best, but it's the technique you learn. You see that you should change the colors, the light and the contrast, until the parts of your collage fits perfectly together. And if you don't want to change it on your giantess, you also can change it on the background ...or both .
There is something else, you should pay attention: The different sharpness of the two pictures. And if you have found the perfect settings but it doesn't seems to be realistic enough and you don't know why, it might be that the edges of your giantess are too hard. That's a phenomen, which often appears on the hair. So you can draw them softer , to give them a smooth look.

Now it's time for the details. If you look on the pictures on the right side, you first see no difference, but if you have a second, closer look, you'll see the changes:
First change you have to do are the "cut offs". Put her foot or arm behind the tree, the car, the skyscraper, or whatever.
To do so you have several possibilities. You can cut off the parts of your giantess which should be hidden behind a house or else, or you can really hide them by making them transparent.
But how to find the exact lines to cut off? Well, there might be other methods, but I prefer to make my model a bit transparent, as seen on the first picture on this workshop page, so I can see the lines from buildings or else thru my giantess. Then I cut off the parts I want to hide and make her fully visible again.
Thats the interacting effect.

I've changed Sarah's Sandals to correct, what I couldn't do with the perspective. I've done this with a drawing tool.

I also have changed the shadows, you can't see it very well because there aren't so strong shadows in this picture.
But here is a hint for you: Some programs have ready tools, which you can use to built shadows: DON'T USE THEM !
Create your own shadows by simply making the related parts
darker. Best you use a airbrush tool with black color and a lot transparence, if your program doesn't have special drawingsettings for this part.

Interaction is very important to make the viewer believe, that there really stays a giantess in the landscape. In my picture a car get damaged by her heel and on the last picture her leg is "in" the bridge. For this effect I've cut out a part of her leg: This is a bit weird, because you have to cut it out on the foreground to make the background visible, but it looks like destroying the bridge on the background. O.k. once I've done this I copy/clone/duplicate a part of the background that should look damaged - in this case, a part of the bridge- and paste it in front of her leg. Then I spin it into an "abnormal" damaged looking position. At last I draw some falling stones and fragments in the front by using the same colors, the objekt has.

It's on you, how detailed you design your add ons, if you draw dust in there for more realism, or don't draw it , to show more parts of your giantess and give it a more aesthetic look, but if you decide to show all the destroying power, that would happen, have a careful look at the details: especially the appearing of explosions in mirrors and windows, that is often forgotten. Explosions are, like airplanes or else , something I don't draw by myself. I prefer searching the web for pictures of explosions, cut them off and paste them in my picture.

Once you have done this, you can make several corrections. You should have a closer look at the cutout borders of your giantess, if there are parts from the old picture, she was in, and which should not be in the new. If it's so, cut them off or make them transparent. Another correction I've decided to make in this picture, was changing the colors again. Realistic or not, priority is a good look. So I've brighten it up a bit and let the sun shine. The blue colors before, were too cold.

Last thing to do, after sleeping a night about it, and having a last look for changes on your collage, is adding a logo. Something that shows the people, that this collage is from you and that you are proud to present it. It shouldn't be too big and get placed in a corner, so that it's not in the way.

Now you have made it and can share your work with us. I hope you liked my collaging lesson and have learned something useful. If thats the case, please let me know. And forgive me my bad english because thats not my language. I'm a german. But write, if something is not clear.

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Welcome to my Giantess collage Workshop

Hi folks, Here you can learn the basics of how to create a good giantess collage. On my journeys thru the www I've seen a lot of giantess collages and some look more realistic than others. But why is it so ? Well, talent might play a role, but there is also knowledge of the techniques required. A good collage is much more than taking a picture and put it into another. This site doesn't show you a step by step way to your collage in photoshop, because every collager should find his own favorite collaging program, it only shows why some collages look better than others and that this NOT depend on how expensive your program was. O.k. this site is mainly for beginners, but perhaps some of you profis out there find a useful hint in here, too. However, it is free and if this workshop help you to make more realistic looking collages or you have some hints for me, then let me know. But now let us start.

Now first of all you need a program you can work with. I've started up with Microsoft Picture It! 2000. A very good collaging program especially for beginners and very easy to learn. You can find a link to it's homepage on my Linksite. A wellknown program for collaging is Photoshop 6.0 . Here you have nearly unlimited possibilities, BUT this is NOT for beginners. If you don't know someone who works with it and can show you the basics and a bit more you will be more frustrated than successful by using it. On the other side there might be much more talented PC users like me out there, so if you think you are one of them, but don't want to pay so much money for a program, that you have never tested before, you can download sometimes a fullversion of it on KATZWAREZ (enter this in your favorite searchengine) At the moment I'm working with both. Mainly because of the, in my opinion, bad cut-out tools in photoshop. So I cut out a picture in Picture It!, where you only have to draw the cut-out-line, put it on a "bluescreen" in jpeg format and export it to photoshop...
Once you have a program, you can work with, you need two or more pictures, that REALLY fit together. Don't put a pov shooted woman in a city, photographed from a skyscrapers view, or something similar stupid. So be patient, if you want to make a collage with a woman. I have about 4000 (!) pictures on my computer and somtimes I have to wait till a fitting citypicture comes along. So there are three things, you have to look for, before putting two pictures together: The perspektive: birdview doesn't work with pov. The resolution: If you have a picture of a woman in thumbnail-size and blow it up to wallpapersize it is very unsharp and looks stupid. The complete: most time it's no problem, if a part of the women, which you want to put into a collage is cut off, but if this cut off is on more than one side, you loose a lot of possibilities due posing the woman.
On the picture above you can see, that this won't become a realistic collage. The reason is the perspektive. The photographer of the Sarah Michelle Gellar Picture kneeled in front of her (or was this small :-)) You can see, if you have a closer look, that Sarah looks down to you, while the citypicture is taken from a pretty higher position. And if you put them together, it looks like Sarah is falling behind. But now let's start with a "working" collage:

	The adventurous looking Picture on the left site shows the perspective of the backgroundpicture (in this case the "vanishing point") Now all you have to do is placing your giantess on the picture and find out on which height the two photoshooters would have the same view/perspective.To do so you should put your model on different places in the picture. If that is not enough you should change the size of your giantess and try it again. If you believe I always make a chaos like this in photoshop with all the lines and transparent Sarahs then you are wrong. this should only show you, what happens in my head. This is not a geometrical science or something else, because a human is nothing geometrical. It's a combination of "feeling for looking realistic" and experience. So you'll see that you will make better collages, if you try often. -learning by doing-

Another very important thing, that is often forgotten is the light. It looks very diffrent, if you take a photo indoor or outdoor. On the following pictures you can see, that it can make a lot of difference, if a figure fit into another picture or not. O.k. the example pics are not the best, but it's the technique you learn. You see that you should change the colors, the light and the contrast, until the parts of your collage fits perfectly together. And if you don't want to change it on your giantess, you also can change it on the background ...or both . There is something else, you should pay attention: The different sharpness of the two pictures. And if you have found the perfect settings but it doesn't seems to be realistic enough and you don't know why, it might be that the edges of your giantess are too hard. That's a phenomen, which often appears on the hair. So you can draw them softer , to give them a smooth look.


Now it's time for the details. If you look on the pictures on the right side, you first see no difference, but if you have a second, closer look, you'll see the changes: First change you have to do are the "cut offs". Put her foot or arm *behind* the tree, the car, the skyscraper, or whatever. To do so you have several possibilities. You can cut off the parts of your giantess which should be hidden behind a house or else, or you can really hide them by making them transparent. But how to find the exact lines to cut off? Well, there might be other methods, but I prefer to make my model a bit transparent, as seen on the first picture on this workshop page, so I can see the lines from buildings or else *thru* my giantess. Then I cut off the parts I want to hide and make her fully visible again. Thats the interacting effect. I've changed Sarah's Sandals to correct, what I couldn't do with the perspective. I've done this with a drawing tool. I also have changed the shadows, you can't see it very well because there aren't so strong shadows in this picture. But here is a hint for you: Some programs have ready tools, which you can use to built shadows: DON'T USE THEM ! Create your own shadows by simply making the related parts darker. Best you use a airbrush tool with black color and a lot transparence, if your program doesn't have special drawingsettings for this part. Interaction is very important to make the viewer believe, that there really stays a giantess in the landscape. In my picture a car get damaged by her heel and on the last picture her leg is "in" the bridge. For this effect I've cut out a part of her leg: This is a bit weird, because you have to cut it out on the foreground to make the background visible, but it looks like destroying the bridge on the background. O.k. once I've done this I copy/clone/duplicate a part of the background that should look damaged - in this case, a part of the bridge- and paste it in front of her leg. Then I spin it into an "abnormal" damaged looking position. At last I draw some falling stones and fragments in the front by using the same colors, the objekt has. It's on you, how detailed you design your add ons, if you draw dust in there for more realism, or don't draw it , to show more parts of your giantess and give it a more aesthetic look, but if you decide to show all the destroying power, that would happen, have a careful look at the details: especially the appearing of explosions in mirrors and windows, that is often forgotten. Explosions are, like airplanes or else , something I don't draw by myself. I prefer searching the web for pictures of explosions, cut them off and paste them in my picture.




Once you have done this, you can make several corrections. You should have a closer look at the cutout borders of your giantess, if there are parts from the old picture, she was in, and which should not be in the new. If it's so, cut them off or make them transparent. Another correction I've decided to make in this picture, was changing the colors again. Realistic or not, priority is a good look. So I've brighten it up a bit and let the sun shine. The blue colors before, were too cold.


Last thing to do, after sleeping a night about it, and having a last look for changes on your collage, is adding a logo. Something that shows the people, that this collage is from you and that you are proud to present it. It shouldn't be too big and get placed in a corner, so that it's not in the way.



Now you have made it and can share your work with us. I hope you liked my collaging lesson and have learned something useful. If thats the case, please let me know. And forgive me my bad english because thats not my language. I'm a german. But write, if something is not clear.

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