A magic world

The theme of my text/ Image project is magic. I believe most of you would easily combine the word magic with J.K Rowling’s fantasy novels Harry Potter. The following is the process of how I make my word cloud image.

I started with a picture of Hogwarts. This castle is a part of Hogwarts. Hogwarts is the center of magic so I chose it as the background.

 

Then I used magic wand tool in Photoshop to remove the blue sky, applied black color to the main castle and white to the background to make it as the base of word cloud.

 

Next I went to Tegxedo website, submitted a piece of introduction of Harry Potter from Wikipedia, loaded my castle base. The following word cloud came out after some revisions of font and color.

 

After I put the word cloud on the castle background, I found the words was not that conspicuous. So I tried some small steps to make up. First of all I reduced the opacity and filling percentage. Then I selected two main regions in the word cloud by lasso tool: Harry and Potter. And I created another layer and gave some layer effects to make it more conspicuous.

 

 

So far it was done in some degree. However, I found there is some empty space in the sky so I wanted to add two characters to make it more like a magic world. Obviously the first one came to my mind was Harry Potter. The second privilege I finally gave to Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts.

 Here was the original pictures of Harry Potter and Dumbledore.

 

 At last I selected the main parts of the two characters by quick selection tool in Photoshop and pasted them to the main plot. They were holding their wands over Hogwarts. So cool!