The Resignment Village

I’ve settled down in my apartment now. Poking around in different corners I found some old photos of the Village, I’ve put them on the corkboard in the kitchen. I suspect they were taken by a previous resident, the photos look quite old, maybe 40 or 50 years I’d guess, quite instagram.

Some information:

If I wanted to fake this sort of thing this is how I’d go about it.

1. I’d create a blank document in FireWorks, say 1200 pixels by 800 pixels
2. I’d watch the video using QuickTime Player (I still have the old QuickTime pro), on an interesting frame I’d stop and copy (⌘-c).
3. Switch to fireworks and paste in the image.
4. Repeat this another four times
5. Back in fireworks I’d select all the images and hit ⌘-T and then type in say 70% to resie them all, I might try a few different sizes.
6. I’d then make a rectangle the same size as the 5 images. Set its fill to a radial gradient, yellow- purple, and set the opacity to around 20.
7. I’d have duplicated the rect until there was 5
8. I’d make another rectangle, no fill, white border.
9. I’d then align each ‘photo’ with  a gradient and a frame and group them.
10. After that I would search my HD for a cork tile and create a background.
11. Then I would have arranged the photos in a random fashion rotating them a little.
12. Finally I’d export to a jpg.

If I was really silly I would not save as I go along and I’d have to do the whole thing again if FireWorks crashes (my old version has a tendency to do that)

If I wanted to earn a couple of credits I submit this to: ds106 Assignments: A Collage Of Your Favorite Vacation Pictures

I suspect I could do a better job with the filters and the rotated rectangles look a little jaggy, maybe these ones are fake too?

I’ll be snapping you