Wednesday, March 18, 2015
I Challenge You
In Elsie Larson and Emma Chapmans book, A Beautiful Mess: Photo Idea Book, theyve created fun and easy challenges for readers to try. As I was going through the challenges I came across the diptych challenge. Diptychs are simply two photos paired together and they are very simple to create. As Elsie and Emma says "You can use photo-editing software to digitally pair your images. [Or] You can get an iPhone app that does it for you" (152). Here I will show you how to create a diptych on your phone and I used the app "Superimpose" but you can of course use any app you prefer.
First, import a blank white image for the background and then import the first photo you want to pair together as the foreground.
Next, stretch the photo to cover about 2/3 of the background.
Third, you will merge the white background and your photo together. This is the most important step because if you dont merge the background and foreground together you will not be able to import the second photo for the foreground.
After merging the background and foreground import your second photo as the new foreground and stretch it to cover the remaining 1/3 of the white background. When doing this make sure you leave a space between the two photos because that is how you get the white line in between.
The last step is to hit merge again and export the photo to your photo album.
Here is the finish image I created.
Now that we have finished you can see that diptychs are very quick and simple to create, which is one of the reasons why I love this technique. I also love diptychs because like Elsie and Emma says they make images more artistic and gives it more of a meaning by telling a story (152). After creating this first diptych I was inspired to create more and I had lots of ideas of what two photos I can pair together.
The question I have for this blog post is what are your favorite photo editing apps or softwares if you use any?
Citations:
Chapman, Emma, and Elsie Larson. A Beautiful Mess: Photo Idea Book. New York: Amphoto, 2013.
Print
Goswami, Pankaj. Superimpose. Computer software. Superimpose. Vers. 4.5. Apple ITunes Store, 5 Dec. 2014. Web. <http://www.superimposeapp.com>.
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