(Will be edited in the next few days.) Final Entry! Huzzah!

Well, I have exhausted what I want out of my final piece. I think that it has gone well, actually. I would upload some of my many failed images, but to be honest, I deleted them in my furious rage to complete the project. My portfolio shows the piece at every step of the process, so no worries there.

Along the way, I certainly came across several problems.

Swapping Backgrounds/foregrounds -
I wanted to cut and paste many objects. I needed to be very careful in my image selections. It can be very difficult taking the foreground out of images, and so I made sure to choose pictures with very consistent backgrounds or foregrounds. This allowed me to swap the backgrounds of many of my images and it helped me in almost all of my steps.

Overlapping Images -
When I swapped the foregrounds of the images into the main background, I ran into an unfortunate problem. Many of my images that needed to appear in the background overlapped into the foreground. This does not look good when you have a moon that is closer to the viewer than a fence. Instead of panicking and forcing myself into a four hour code lock down, i decided to simply move the elements. I knew I would not be able to pull off a layering effect, and so I only strategically placed the images. The moon is right between the fence and other elements fit in perfectly as well. To make the moon look even more distant, I blended the original background back over the moon. This gave the moon a faded blue appearance, just what I wanted!

Mirroring:
Some of the images I wanted to use were not facing in the right direction. To mirror them entirely, I placed them into a large canvass. Next I mirrored the whole canvas. This helped me reverse images.

Coloring:
After everything I managed to complete, I still struggled on even really simple things. For example, I really wanted to try to color code certain all black images. I, for the life of me, could not do it. I wanted to add more color into the final piece, but I decided that it was not worth the effort. I also wanted to add a tree and see if I could try to give it a gradient with the same colors as the sunset. In the end, I had to scratch that idea.

In the end, I can say that I am definitely satisfied. I had a lot of different plans, and this one was one that I finally managed to capitalize on. I worked on the actual coding for close to 6 hours or so. (It spent the whole day working on it.) Getting the idea into place required that I actually write down steps on paper and include illustrations to help me picture the final piece. I cannot say that I found or created anything especially significant in the finished creation. For me to get so deep into what I compulsively created would be an outright fabrication.