Such environments as dioramas were made of composited images.ġ9th century The Two Ways of Life, a moralistic photo montage of Rejlanders own work, 1857-a choice between vice (at left) and virtue (at right) Robinson's Fading Away (1858) A composite of related photographs to extend a view of a single scene or subject would not be labeled as a montage, but instead a stitched image or a digital image mosaic.Īuthor Oliver Grau in his book, Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, notes that the creation of an artificial immersive virtual reality, arising as a result of technical exploitation of new inventions, is a long-standing human practice throughout the ages.
This latter technique is referred to by professionals as " compositing", and in casual usage is often called " photoshopping" (from the name of the popular software system). A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final image may appear as a seamless physical print.
Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Composite image created from two or more photographs Photomontage of kiwifruit and lemons, digitally manipulated using GIMP