Task 2 Light and Dark Collage

A digital collage which is supposed to represent the differences between light and dark. For my piece I decided to create this image below.

This collage was created by:

• creating a custom brush of the Mosta dome.
• created a rotated image of the dome.
• tilted the brush type to a diagonal
• added a background behind the angle, then changed its mode to Luminosity to become more eerie
• then I selected a crow, removed the crow itself and added it to a mask so that it would be transparent and take the background beneath it. I also set its mode to Exclusion
• I added the bottom left angle statue and gave it a difference mode so that the colours of the brushes would be inverted and create an even creepier vibe to the collage itself. (giving it a darker contrast)
• on the other hand,I gave the top right angle statue a linear light mode which makes it "brighter" compared to the other angle, thus creating a contrast between light and dark
• I added a sword to the top right angel to show the battle between the two, the battle of light against darkness. I gave the sword a linear burn mode so that it would be more visible.
• Then finally I added the text each of which individually: Light and darkness have the same effects which are a gradient overlay along with a drop shadow. Furthermore for "and" symbol i used  cyan gradient overlay with Bevel&Emboss along with a drop shadow, so that it would be more visible in the collage itself.
• The font used is the Old English text Mt which I believed was the most suitable and ties the collage together.