Tutorial: how to Make a Montage

[roadrunner465]

Thank you both for the info. I know about memory overload. I need to digest the info so I can understand.
If you can tell me where I might find examples of a montage I can work out my own info from there.
Unless I try I will not know whether I am able to succeed or not, hence I always try.
Again thanks for time and effort

[Gadget]

Hi Joy

There as masses of examples out there. Perhaps the best thing might be fro you to do a Google image search on photomontage. I came up with thousands when I did it.

Some are surrealist - in fact that's how they started with Heartfield and Grosz, German Dadaists, and Man Ray, etc - some are more, what one might say, ordinary.

It's up to you

Gadget

[roadrunner465]

Thanks
I had not thought I putting photmontage. I can do this search
Again thanks for your time

[JackieG]

I'm following instructions as well Denn. I am very impressed with your work on Swally's montage
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,175542.0.html
I really like the example you did with the pictures superimposed on the church. Will have a try at this .
Perhaps this Tutorial could be pinned to the top so we don't lose it??
Keep up the good work. I have learned so much here.
Thanks
Jackie

[Gadget]

Hi Joy

I've been searching around for an example of an 'arty' montage with a Family History theme for you. This is one I did earlier this year for my pal Keith Bateman, based on images from his website.

It started as a joke and only took a short time. However, it does show you some of the features that I mentioned in the earlier posting - soft and hard edge, re-sizing, different levels of transparency, spacing, inclusion of text.

Much of my own art is concerned with history themes and I now use different levels of transparency to convey this sense of time. In the old days, I used to have to print up each photograph on Kentmere Art paper and use bleaches, paint washes, wax, glues, tissue paper and abrasion to get the effects - now we have Photoshop 

I printed this image on Epson A3+ Watercolour paper and Keith has it in his hall!

Gadget

PS It took me lots of visits to his website to choose the images that I wanted to use, so his high  'hit rate'  reflects this 

http://batemans-history.rootschat.net/

also mine

http://some-ancestors.rootschat.net/

 

[d.weaving]

Nice composition Gadget,quite effective
Derek

[dennford]

Nice job Gadget, especially knowing how much work goes into something like that.

                                                    Denn

[Gadget]

Thanks Denn

Keith seemed to like it - he sent me a photo of him standing next to it in his hall 

Gadget 

[roadrunner465]

Gadget
Great info that you sent me. I assume I make the montage the same way as anything else such as layers ect' This is the part where I am unclear. I make an outline, choose the pics that I want, and then
   Open the first of your images and create two new layers and fill one with black and one with white. Now drag your image to the top of these layers and try hiding first the black then the white so that you can see which one shows all the dags left on your cutout.
I read this info from Den, but haven't a clue how to do this.
I loved your work, and want to retain the historical part of my photos. I am a history buff, love old pics of London and such
I am on the road so must go
Thanks again