Faces in Everyday Places...or Pareidolia
Pareidolia is a phenomenon whereby our brains find familiar patterns amongst random objects. There have been many famous examples that you can read about on the link for Pareidolia above. For our purposes, we'll concentrate on one form of pareidolia: seeing faces in everyday objects.
Here are some examples of Pareidolia:
For this project, we'll begin by photographing pareidolic images, or faces in places. Shoot as many as you can find, then we'll combine them on a grid pattern similar to the above image gallery.
Once you have taken your face pictures, visually edit them by choosing the best nine pictures. Then, make a new Photoshop document by going to File > New, and sizing it to 12 inches by 12 inches at a resolution of 300 pixels.
Begin placing your face images into your new document by first opening them in Photoshop (not dragging them into from the desktop), then using the move tool to drag them in.
Using Guides will help you to evenly space the images. If you don't see the Ruler around your photoshop document, click on View > Rulers. Also, make sure Snap is enabled (View > Snap). This will allow you to drag Guides from the ruler and into your Photoshop document. Snap will make layer images "stick" to the Guides.
After you have placed all nine images into your Photoshop document, correct for brightness and contrast (Image > Adjust > Brightness & Contrast) to match them all as closely as possible.
Finally, choose a suitable background color or pattern and apply it to your background layer (Edit > Fill > Color/Pattern).