Let's Make A Montage

Montaging is making new images by chopping up other images and putting them together in new ways.  


Inspiration

Go look at dada montage by Hannah Hoch.

Gee Vaucher was part of the punk band CRASS. Go take a look at her work.

The Edinburgh Collage Collective

Coldwar Steve

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History of Montage

http://bit.ly/montagedev

The development of photo montage

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Edinburgh Collage Collective

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/edinburghcollagecollective/

Brilliant collection of montage work.

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Introspective – Gee Vaucher from Crass to Trump

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/introspective-gee-vaucher-crass-trump/

Collection of punk artist's work.

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Coldwar Steve

https://www.instagram.com/coldwarsteve/
Cold War Steve aka Christopher Spencer is an artist from Birmingham, England who specialises in surreal, satirical and hilarious collages originally made on his phone and iPad.




Resources

Unsplash

Creative Commons

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pngimg

http://pngimg.com/
Large collection of isolated PNGs, great for making montages.



Tools

You can "isolate" a picture, or get rid of its background using the mask tools in Pixlr or Photopea, but if the picture is well defined, tools like Remove.bg may be able to do it for you quickly.

 

 

 

 

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Remove Background

https://www.remove.bg/
Quickly remove an image's background

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Pixlr X

https://pixlr.com/X/

The latest version of this fantastic image editor. Has fantastic tools for isolating a part of an image.

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Photopea

https://www.photopea.com/
Exactly like Photoshop of old, but in the browser.

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CoolBackgrounds

https://coolbackgrounds.io/
Generates a variety of nice background textures

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Background Burner

https://burner.bonanza.com/
Remove backgrounds from images online



Learning

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Background Removal in Pixlr Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUnaAzl_Te4

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Working With Layers in Pixlr Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rYU9AgQiiE

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Pixlr Filter Tools Tutorial

http://bit.ly/montagelesson3