Do not be satisfied

When researching David Carson's work I came across:

Do Not Be Satisfied. This piece- in my eyes- was absolutely great, especially with the overlaying texture. I therefore dicided to re-make it, but with a photo of my Grandad replacing the man seen on the right.


First I found a texture from the intenet what was somewhat similar to the one in the image above- this is what I found:

I then changed the colour and appearance of the texture using a variaty of settings/ tools, including:
-Hue and Saturation
-Levels
-Brightness and Contrast
-Colour Balance
-Curves

Eventually, after 10-15 minutes of tweaking I was happy with what I had. I then used file>Place to insert a picture of my Grandad before useing the pen tool to remove the background of the image, leaving only the image of my Grandad.

Next I used the same method and tools as before on my Grandad to give his a similar appearance as the background, the outcome was as follows:


Happy with what I had so far, I moved onto the text. Whilst studying the image by David Carson further, I realised that his text had a slight glow and blur therefore I tried this with the word 'Peace'.


Each of the words on the right, consisted of a different effect, such as:
-Box Blur
-Lens Blur
-Outer Glow
-Motion Blur
-Gaussian Blur




I then incorparated some of these effects into my work by writing the words 'Rest in Peace' with these effects ontop of the image I created previously. Another effective technique I used was Layer Mask. This allowed me to hide some of the text behind the image of my Grandad giving the image as a whole alot more deapth and making it look more 3D.

Before long I repeated the words and used similar techniques as beofre to use up some of the empty space...

This was the final
outcome: