Photo montage credits for One Family Together Forever, part 6

(Updated Dec. 3, 2014 to reflect new content)

This is the final installment of the sources and methods of the creation of the "pictures" seen in my latest book, which you can buy by clicking on the book cover on the top right of this blog.

"Farm house"
Page 8
To fill an empty page near the start of the book, I chose this Google Maps ground-view image of the house at 2118 Barefoot Road, the actual location of my fictitious farm.

One-room schoolhouse and people
Page 74
(Top) Schoolhouse is located in Kansas and retrieved from a blog; nameplate created with Trajan Pro 3 after original inscription was brushed away; clothing from Dennis Pintoski photo; people are as follows:

• Top row: Noah Jr. (Scott Ruttencutter), Bret (unknown model), Terry (Brett Snowball, student/baseball player at school in British Columbia, Canada), Noah III (Tyson Meacham, Columbus, GA), Ola (Jana Duggar, 19 Kids and Counting), Timmy (unknown subject, was on FB page of someone named "Bubba Wimberly" but I think the account has been shut down), Tammy (daughter of Brittany and Joe Ramos, first name not available; note: daughter is on the left), Adam (Carson Britt, Dunn, NC, retrieved from The Daily Record), Amanda (unknown subject), Matthew (son of Brittany and Joe Ramos), Ricky (Jackson Barefoot, Dunn, NC), Brookie (unknown subject), Elma (Beverly Baldridge).
• Bottom row: Brittany, Lollie (Dae Barefoot, Dunn, NC), Lovie (unknown subject from one of Deb Holmes' Facebook pictures), Bryson (unknown subject), Belinda ("Addison"), Danielle (ballerina found on Fotosearch), Cameron (John Carter, Dunn, NC), Alyssa (unknown subject), Mickey (Brayden Meacham, Columbus, GA), Emily (unknown subject)

(Bottom) Interior of a schoolhouse in Alabama

Family reunion
Page 75
(Top) Event logo created using another Adobe program, Adobe Illustrator; meant to be a banner displayed on the outside of the Pink Barefoot mansion, which is currently a cemetery; incorporates the original logo I created via says-it.com.
(Bottom) Backdrop picture is from GharExpert.com; faces placed on top of various-colored gowns and shirts I had used earlier; food is from an e-mail I got from the Winston-Salem Journal

Cousin/nephew businesses
Page 76
(Top) Lettering created using Hank BT font; logo is modification of Barefoot Books corporate logo; picture is that of Brenda Barefoot (real person not connected with my character) with saturation set to 0% to make it black-and-white (reflecting the "old" Ola as the "new" Ola is 12 years old)
(Bottom) Backdrop of bakery from The Petaluma Spectator; face from the late Elizabeth Barefoot (Clinton, NC) as seen in her obituary; clothing from British eBay; cake courtesy Robinette's Cakes

Little Boy Records
Page 79

 









Poster background comes from a completely black layer filled randomly with the star brush; B.W. picture in the center is similar to page 13; Brittany Raylene is Katie Klaassen, former Denver Broncos cheerleader; Bubba Brister is Adam Brister, combining the two photos you see on this page (Adam posted the second to Facebook but it was somehow deleted); "Bird" is Jermaine Stevens, finalist on American Idol season 8, combined with an overlaid beanie from a website (did not save as separate file or record metadata), ButtaFly is British pop singer Keisha Buchanan; Blondie is British singer/actress Nadine Coyne, Melanie MacMelville is Katherine McPhee from her Idol days (she was season 4 runnerup).  Another note: The word "bluntry" to describe Brister is a portmanteau of "blues" and "country" to describe his musical influences; I first heard it on season 4 of The Voice to describe contestant Kristina Askew.

Brittany Spears/Blondie
Page 80
(Top) "Grandpa Breck" is actually someone in the Umpqua Valley Bluegrass Band in Oregon; rest of the members are from the Wheeling Park High School Bluegrass Band in West Virginia; all faces are identical except that Brittany's face substitutes for someone in the Wheeling Park band
(Bottom) Backdrop is a picture of Craig Sutton, a piano bar player in Raleigh, NC (Sutton was removed from the picture via clone-stamp and eraser tools); Blondie/Nadine Coyne's face is above a neckline I created and a blue blouse I found at Chicic; tip jar was found at Funny Tip Jars, I removed the old label, added a new label, placed and styled the Impact font with the words "FEED ME" above a flying pig I found at Flying Pig Theater

BMN Superfan
Page 81
(Top) Brittany Ramos (left) and Deb Holmes (right) are two actual persons I incorporated into the BMN Superfan reality competition show.  Ramos won in season 1, while Holmes finished second in season 2 to another of my Facebook friends and book sources, Adam Brister.
(Bottom) Backdrop is file from page 84 of How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 by Steve Caplin; head is that of oral surgeon Matthew Barefoot of Savannah, GA

BMN stars
Page 82
(Top left) Cap taken from one worn by Brack Maggard; face is that of Cody Dent, minor-league baseball player in Washington Nationals organization; shirt designed at CustomInk; cap recolored black and "embroidery" also courtesy CustomInk
(Top right) Chad ?, contestant on two different seasons of Big Break, Golf Channel's reality competition program; I took a video capture from the show's opening on Chad's first appearance and put the face above Chad's body
(Bottom) Backdrop is a barn discovered by Poirier and placed in his teacher file; faces as follows: Lulabettie: Anna McWillie of Chicago; Bunkley Ray, unknown subject from Black and Married with Children; LaBloodrick, Keevin Hardman, Lakewood Hall of Fame Athlete of the Year in 1998 (was high school wrestler); La'BooTeasha, Katie Washington, valedictorian at University of Notre Dame (from e-mail, this was among many sites that carried her pic at the time)

More BMN stars
Page 83
(Top) Promotional poster based on this picture of the Jeter family taken by professional photographer Brittany Butterworth; faces as follows: Billy Bob, professional steer wrestler Brian Barefoot; Krista, chef and author Georgia Pellegrini; Michelle MacKenzie "Mac", high-school student Kaleigh Forney; Adam, Bo Bowling, former Oklahoma State tight end; logo created with circle shape layer, Birch Standard and Black Oak Standard fonts
(Bottom) Show concept based on 19 Kids and Counting, so it's appropriate I took a video capture from its 2011-13 opening as backdrop; "stars" as follows: Ronnie and Donnie, former Southern Miss punter and placekicker Britt Barefoot; Deborah, high-schooler Brandy Rapp; Tony, Noah Barefoot (not connected to my character); Benny, Billie Barefoot, owner of Barefoot Chiropractic & Wellness; Tammy, daughter of Brittany and Joe Ramos; Lovie, unknown relative of Deb Holmes; Timmy, unknown boy of "Bubba Wimberly" from discontinued FB account; Terry, Brett Snowball; Allene, Jill McLamb Barefoot; Danny, unknown model in file I created called "IfTheyreBounding" based on a Photoshop file; Ola, Jana Duggar; Vallie, Jill Duggar (Jana's sister and castmate); Willie, unknown from "IfTheyreBounding"; Lollie, Dae Barefoot; Mickey, Brayden Meacham; Ricky, Jackson Barefoot; Randy, Tyler Barefoot, Benson, NC (I added Willie in a stroller, replacing Josie from a still picture of the family's trip to China.)

"Hotel Hobson"
Page 86
Lesson I learned at ABC Adult School based on one on page 190 of How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6.  The neon was my creation based on Poirier's instructions.  This was displayed in the classroom as well as related works by other students.

"What-If Britt Barefoot"
Page 87
Backdrop is an action shot of Britt Barefoot punting during a game between Southern Miss and East Carolina on Sep. 15, 2007 in Greenville, NC (find it in this photo gallery); foot comes from the model in In Wonderland with Alice, refitted using the transform tool.

First Night Television Network
Page 88
(Top left) Enlargement of syndicated network's logo
(Top right) Picture of Times Square, New York City from DiscoverAmerica.com.
(Bottom) Station logos all come from their Wikipedia pages, were the most current available when I retrieved them; logo was contrived with rectangle frame and Garamond font; backdrop is a scene of fireworks at Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia, on New Year's Eve.

Billboards
Page 89
The promotional billboards - one showing eastbound on Interstate 40, facing Woods Crossroads Road and the other showing westbound on Interstate 40 facing Godwin Lake Road - were made from the basis of more Google Earth photographs.  For the billboards themselves, I superimposed the "official" family portrait on top of a blank board put up by Poirier.

Barefoot Family Farm logo
Page 90
Original logo was created on says-it.com as a "family crest"; second line changed from "INNOCENT AND FREE" to "FAMILY FARM" to make into a corporate logo; in both cases, original footprint installed by says-it.com was replaced by colored-in version, with words removed, of logo of Barefoot's Auto Mart.

Photo montage credits for One Family Together Forever, part 5

I now move on past the chapters related directly to my characters and to other aspects of their lives.

Map of Meadow
Page 64
The source is Google Maps.  The intent was for the entire township's boundaries to be included, but the dimensions within the template cut off about a third of it.  I have enclosed the entire map here.
Property map
Page 65
Base is a satellite view in and around 2118 Barefoot Road, the (real) address the property would have been located at; pond on property is actually Rose Pond, a real water feature about a mile to the east; I drew Oliver's Creek using a brush tool set to the color I wanted; used the color replacement tool to establish the area of the mud pit; labeled property elements using Alternate Gothic 2 BT
Picnic ground and open space/outhouse
Page 66
(Top) Street view of 2118 Barefoot Rd. on Google Maps is the basis here; used hue and saturation to change color from brown to green; used part of water in "A Bridge Too Far" to create part of background
(Bottom) Outhouse photo taken by Michelle Radcliff on which picture of water barrel from Cowboy Cooking is overlaid
Farm house/barnyard
Page 67
(Top left) House is actually a cottage, picture comes from a house design site; "sign" consists of following elements: headstone of Ralph Barefoot (real resident of Dunn, NC, not connected in any way to my character), color change with hue/saturation and curves adjustments; footprint is the one on the right in this image, color change from white to black used by filling a separate layer with alt-delete, then duplicated so that the print is on each side
(Top right) Blueprint (not exact, but close) comes from the House Blueprints site.
(Bottom) I took the original barnyard picture on a trip to Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, GA, in 2012; logo is the same as that of Breeze, a brand of cat litter; Bobby Ray and Hambone are wearing Washington Dee Cee coveralls; mule comes from Benson Mule Days website; pigs from Orange County Fair (CA) website
Workshop
Page 68
Picture of blacksmith's shop at Peters Valley historic park in British Columbia (also available from Wikipedia)
Domestic room
Page 69
(Top left) Amish stove picture found at House Crazy
(Top right) Washboard courtesy of Vicky Rehberg ("lovapet" may have been original photographer)
(Bottom) Bathtub courtesy bath-in-wood.com
Flower meadow/pine forest
Page 70
(Top) Directly from file left by Brady Poirier on a computer at ABC Adult School
(Bottom) This was meant to be a loblolly pine, but it's actually a Pacific wax myrtle (myrica californica); picture source is the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Farm plot/orchard
Page 71
(Top) Street view of 2118 Barefoot Road on Google Maps
(Bottom) Orchard picture from My Southborough (blog based near Boston)
Mud pit/creek/pond/briar patch
Page 72
(Top left) Picture from about.com
(Top right) Cropped from original photo in "A Bridge Too Far"
(Bottom right) From Brady Poirier's teacher files
(Bottom left) Presumably from a website, but Google could not trace it as it has apparently been taken down

Photo montage credits for One Family Together Forever, part 4

Brandy Barefoot montages
Page 58
Backdrop and wood patterns come from Brady Poirier's teacher files at ABC Adult School; Amanda Barefoot's face replaces that of one of the participants in the Beauties of America pageant (the one in the middle); I brushed out the sash and replaced it with a new inscription written with Trajan Pro.  The caption was written with Edwardian Script, then rasterized and given a white stroke for contrast.
Page 59
(Top) Backdrop is that of the ballroom of the Loews Coronado Bay Resort, near San Diego.  Inset is a video capture from the BBC series Strictly Come Dancing, which spawned the current U.S. series Dancing with the Stars. (It more resembles a foxtrot than the Viennese waltz I thought it was, based on my original Google search.)  The people pictured are: Rebecca Peacock (Robin Moore Barefoot, in the red gown cited earlier), Blake Barefoot (Connor Boyd, killed in September 2013 in Ottawa when a public bus and a commuter train crashed, wearing the DiCaprio suit), Laurie Barefoot (Brittany Barefoot's mother, original clothes), Brandy Barefoot (Amanda Barefoot, in this blue gown), Daniel Barefoot (Brittany Barefoot's father, original clothes), Bunky Barefoot (Brandon Davidson, in white T-shirt with Nevada horse embroidery, recolored black via alt-delete fill layer)
(Bottom) Real-life photo of Amanda Barefoot and her boyfriend, Jared McLamb (Ken Tart Photography via Facebook)
Britton "Bunky" Barefoot montages
Page 62
(Top) Original photo is a one-man band set which I thought came from about.com but has apparently been taken down; drumsticks from video capture of a performance by Brett Brookshire on YouTube; uniform top comes from MLB's online store (White Sox are Bunky's favorite sports team, while 15 is his reset age); pants and legs from usual sources

(Bottom) Modification of Brandy Barefoot (Alabama)/Aaron Strickland photo as follows: Original pictures of each flipped horizontally with appropriate faces substituted; separate layers for clothing so they could be adjusted; original lettering and logos removed via clone-stamp tool; Hurricanes logo added and designated as a dissolve layer

Photo montage credits for One Family Together Forever, part 3

Let's continue in my newly-published photo montage album book, which is available for sale.  (Reminder: To buy the book, click the icon on the top-left corner of this page.)

Alonzo "Popeye" Barefoot montages
Page 36

(Top) Popeye's trunk in sitting position: From photo of Shelton Barefoot, owner of Barefoot's Auto Mart in Dunn, NC (has since been taken down, but seen on the right), flipped horizontally; Brack Maggard's face superimposed.  As for the boat: It is a 2014 Sun Tracker Party Barge 24 DLX available from Bass Pro Shops; footprint posted on the Barefoot Chiropractic & Wellness home page (the practice is located in Tempe, AZ); boat name written with Monotype Corsiva font
(Bottom) Popeye and Annie's tops recolored pink ("Pink Party") using hue and saturation adjustments; lettering with Monotype Corsiva font; faces superimposed over two of the original players' tops; picture of game table courtesy of Irving Park United Methodist Church in Greensboro, NC; backdrop adapted from "A Bridge Too Far," How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 by Steve Caplin
Down Home magazine cover
Page 37
Bonnie Mae Brookshire, whose name I used as an "artist" on this cover, was a real person who lived in eastern Tennessee.  She died in 2013 at age 100; here's her obituary.
Gillie Ann "Annie" Barefoot montages
Page 40
(Top) Background photo is from a quilting bee that was part of a historical reenactment of 19th century life that took place at Wolcott Mill in suburban Detroit.  The original faces were covered up with those of Brenda, Annie, Jennifer, and Brandy.
(Bottom) Background for this "publicity photo" comes from a farm house in Maine owned by two actors who were part of a film called, ironically, Barefoot Country Girl. The women - in the same formation as in the other picture - wore gowns I picked up from an Australian online gown store; the same gown was used for each, but three of them were re-colored (all but the red one Brandy is wearing).
Page 41
(Top) Background photo from a file placed by Shelly Ritchie, who like Poirier teaches Photoshop at ABC Adult School; faces of 11 original subjects replaced as follows: (top row) Lollie [Dae Barefoot, Dunn, NC], Allene [Jill McLamb Barefoot, Benson, NC], Labell [Donald Barefoot, Benson, NC], Annie [Emily Barefoot], Popeye [Brack Maggard], Ralph [Brett Barefoot], Noah Jr. [Scott Ruttencutter, Madison, WI]; (bottom row) Elma [Beverly Baldridge, Searcy, AR], Becky, Brookie, and Beth [all original photos; however, Brookie's face was re-colored that of this "barefoot cowgirl" subject]
(Bottom) Background is from Gil Rosario's Pinterest page; clothes are from one of five kinds of flapper outfits (pink, blue, dark red, light red, medium red); faces are as follows from left to right: Brenda (Kim Blitchington), Rozelle (Bonnie Baldridge, Jayton, TX), Brandy (Amanda Barefoot), Elma (Beverly Baldridge), Jennifer (Brandy Barefoot, Opp, AL), Ila Ruth (Brett Marie Bruce, Fullerton, CA), Allene (Jill McLamb Barefoot), Patsy (Becca Gladden, Phoenix, AZ), Janice (Michele Lawrence, Bellflower, CA), Betty Lou (Barbara Barber, Longmont, CO), Annie (Emily Barefoot), Myrtle (Carol Baltimore, Powhatan, VA)
Ralph Barefoot montages
Page 44
(Top left) Background photo from Adam Brister's Facebook page; caption using a serif font; dog tag adapted from screen capture of scene from Mud Lovin' Rednecks, which aired on Animal Planet in 2011
(Top right) Background photo from Adam Brister's Facebook page; only alteration is substitution of Ralph/Brett Barefoot's face for Brister's
(Bottom) Background photo from Adam Brister's Facebook page; Atlanta Braves logo "airbrushed" out and replaced by two versions of one of the footprints from the Barefoot Chiropractic & Wellness front page
Page 45
(Top) Street view of Long Branch Church in Meadow, NC from Google Maps
(Bottom) Ralph/Brett Barefoot's face superimposed in picture of Clinton Randall, pastor of Unity Presbyterian Church, which is also located in Meadow
Harvey Barefoot montages
Page 48
(Top) Background from CustomMade.com; Leonardo diCaprio's picture reproduced and duplicated four times for each quartet member with faces placed on top, from left to right: Popeye (Brack Maggard), Harvey (Justin Barefoot), Landon Jr. (Mike McBunch, barber and administrator), Ralph (Brett Barefoot)
(Bottom) Scrapbook created as follows: Football picture is his face combined with a vintage Chicago Bears uniform design seen at the online NFL Shop; wrestling picture from coach Ken Chertow's website; softball background taken at Big League Dreams Sports Park in Chino Hills, CA at its replica of Fenway Park; cap taken from Popeye/Maggard photo, painted black, and topped with a stylized "B" in Edwardian font; uniform top from Milwaukee Brewers' uniforms found at Major League Baseball's online store; "BLACKIES" written using Birch Standard font arched; number in Birch Std., patch is picture of American black bear found on Wikipedia; pants, belt, and shoes from Campbell University softball team photo; bat is Louisville Slugger Z-3000 found at softballfans.com, Harvey is holding it with Mariam Nasrollahi's arms "bent" for effect; shadow created manually
Reba Pearl "Hambone" Barefoot montages
Page 52
Background is a pattern I downloaded from Greeting Card Factory; body is a video capture from the Steve Hickman hambone performance video (see previous post for link); Hawaiian shirt is replaced by recolored ladies' top through reshaping and blending mode changes; original pants given a lighter shade by lowering the saturation
Page 53
(Top left) Interior of log cabin courtesy of Homylicious; "map" depicted in original picture replaced by a montage I created with Hambone's immediate family set in a meadow Poirier put in the school files; license plate inscription made with Orator Standard font and bevel-and-emboss effect and placed on this blank North Carolina license plate.  Hambone's face is a second picture of Alyssa Barefoot as she is going to a restaurant; shirt is a replica New Orleans Saints jersey overlayed with Nasrollahi's camo pattern from the senior class photo; her coveralls is the Washington Dee Cee model found at Vintage Trends; arms are from the Brittany Barefoot senior class photo mentioned in the first post.
(Top right) All shirts are the RedHead Stalker Lite II camouflage shirt from Bass Pro Shops; all pants are the RedHead Stalker II camo pants.  Faces are as follows: Bear (ARCA driver, I do not know his name because the picture has been taken down from the ARCARacing.com site; however, I do have it on my hard drive and am also putting it here), Boo Boo (unknown model on Cool Men's Hair), Cooter (Aaron Strickland, pictured at right), Little Jack (Blake Barefoot, former football and lacrosse player at Episcopal High School in Washington, D.C.)  Lil' Jack/Blake Barefoot's face was exceptionally red and bright and I had to make four adjustments - hue and saturation, brightness and contrast, levels, and curves -  to blend in with everyone else's.  All four of the brothers - third cousins to Buddy Wayne - have facial hair I lifted from a photograph of Duck Dynasty co-star Willie Robertson.  Bear has the full beard, Boo Boo and Cooter have partial beards, and Lil' Jack only has a soul patch.

(Bottom) Satellite image of 851 Oak Forest Drive, Four Oaks, NC, courtesy of Google Maps.  I used Snipping Tool to outline what the camp would look like.


Page 54
(Top) Vehicle picture courtesy of cardomain.com; original face replaced by the Alyssa Barefoot secondary photo; decal courtesy of Dixie Outfitters.  (Because of issues in downloading the original photo of the four-wheeler, I have placed a copy of it on this page.)

(Bottom) Backdrop is a briar patch, courtesy of a forum for tractor owners; clothing comes from the Miller-Nasrollahi-Barefoot senior picture, duplicated four times to accommodate the 15-person hunting party; faces are as follows: Landon (Johnny McLamb), Nokelee (Bill Bump, pastor of Lawrence First Methodist Church in Kansas), Bobby Ray (Travis Sampson), Buddy Wayne (Bubba Britton), Labell (Donald Barefoot), Cooter (Aaron Strickland), Boo Boo (buzzcut man), Hambone (Alyssa Barefoot), Bear (unknown race-car driver), Lil' Jack (Blake Barefoot), Popeye (Brack Maggard), Ralph (Brett Barefoot), Harvey (Justin Barefoot), Noah (Bob Baltimore, husband of Carol), Alfred (Buddy Baldridge, husband of Bonnie)
Page 55
Halter top from Amazon, re-colored pink by way of hue and saturation; talk bubble from video capture of the lyrics video of "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)," recorded by Pink in 2012; font was VAGRounded BT

Photo montage credits for One Family Together Forever, part 2

(Updated on Dec. 3, 2014 due to photo substitution, as mentioned in part 1)

In the last post, I gave source materials for the photo montages of Barefoot Family Farm residents.  Now I will give sources for the other pictures I present in the just-published book.

Buddy Wayne Barefoot montages
Page 12
(Top) Backdrop: Picture of Ryman Auditorium from DiscoverAmerica.com website maintained by BrandUSA, a public-private partnership that is designed to encourage tourism into the United States; performers' montage: B.W.'s headshot combined with a picture of guitarist published in March 2010 in the Eagle-Tribune (Lawrence, MA) and placed in the daily gallery of front pages of the Newseum website; camera operator relocated with content-aware move tool, flipped horizontally
(Bottom) Car and number are both from Jayski.com paint-scheme pages; exterior of the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet, driven by six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson; the color was changed from blue to black by way of the color replacement tool; number from the last Cup car of the late Dale Earnhardt; logo of Barefoot's Auto Mart from official site, reshaped to fit outside of car
Page 13
(Top) Backdrop of Old North Church in Boston from DiscoverAmerica.com; face of Lyman Bowling, Jr. (president of new Confederacy): Steve Beverly, professor at Union University in Jackson, TN in the communications department and former webmaster of TVGameShows.net; suits from this picture of Leonardo DiCaprio as taken in 2012
(Bottom) Background shot of the Las Vegas Strip from DiscoverAmerica.com; faces of B.W. and Brittany placed on top of bodies of Bobby and Amy Sherman of Dunn, NC, courtesy of The Daily Record
Brenda Barefoot montages
Page 16
Exterior: Close-up shot of family farm house (see page 67); costume from Party City website; arms from Mariam Nasrollahi as pictured in the senior-class photo posted by Brittany Barefoot (see first post for details).
Page 17
Backdrop is from "A Bridge Too Far," a project published in the book How to Cheat in Photoshop CS6 by Steve Caplin; Brenda's face placed on head in girl depicted on In Wonderland with Alice; B.W.'s face placed atop that of Jethro, bluegrass artist and part of Homer & Jethro from the album cover of Barefoot Ballads, released sometime before 1950.  The album cover is retrieved from this site.
Bobby Ray Barefoot montages
Page 20
(Top) Backdrop from video capture of NASCAR on Fox's live broadcast of the 2014 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway; faces of "sportscaster" Rhett Jeffers (really Kelly McBartlett, a real estate agent from Colorado), Bobby Ray, and B.W. placed on top of suits worn by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip
(Bottom) Exterior of house from one of Brady Poirier's files; Jennifer's top is recolored via hue and saturation adjustments; Carolina Panthers logo on Bobby's shirt from Wikipedia; see page 18 for source of family farm logo; movers' truck from another of Poirier's files
Christmas carolers
Page 21
Carolers from photograph shown on a site called Classic FM; photo transformed to a nighttime shot through techniques I learned in Poirier's class; family farm house used as a basis.  I actually gave the carolers names, but did not publish them; they are Rachel and Rebecca on the top row, and LaRetta, LaRayne, and LaRae on the bottom row.
Jennifer Barefoot montage
Page 24
(Top) Facebook picture of Brandy Barefoot (Opp, AL) on top of footprint "cut out" I created using Adobe Illustrator at ABC Adult School.  Contact information, which is fictitious and should not be attempted, using Monotype Corsiva
(Bottom) Background photograph courtesy of the Indiana Podiatry Group; uniform obtained at the website of Charles Sturt University in Australia (actually designed for dentists, but can be adapted)
Page 25
Closeup of picture of building provided by Brady Poirier, recolored and turned into a virtual drawing using the watercolor filter; crow is drawing that is a Greeting Card Factory file
Belinda Barefoot montages
Page 28
(Top left) Face superimposed on top of a Sharon Steinman photo of a sledder published by AL.com and CBS News
(Top right) Montages of Bryson and Belinda placed on top of a picture of a meadow provided by Poirier; bucket from Bella Wedding Company site
(Bottom) Head placed on top of the model of this dollhouse from Amazon.com; dolls from another dollhouse site
Bryson Barefoot montages
Page 32
Treehouse courtesy Smosh, actual house but location not available; sign created using rectangular tool and white fill colors; very thin black brush serves as rope holding up sign; shirt design provided by Live Life Barefoot
Page 33
Backdrop from photo of ghost town of Bodie, CA; tagline is a modification of "Great ideas last for generations," used by Lakewood, CA; Las Positas is name of a community college in Livermore, CA; credits are either family members or people I made up, except for character actress Marianne Muellerleile; horse is one on the left in this Chris Johns photograph, which I also saw on DiscoverAmerica.com; rider's body is a British equestrian with a costume from the Party City website overlaid on it; company logo adapted from Wikipedia picture of an American black bear by lowering the opacity

Photo montage credits for One Family Together Forever, part 1

(Updated Dec. 3, 2014 when the second "Rebecca Rapp" drawing was switched with a new photo of Brenda and Buddy Wayne, that replaced an extra picture of the doppelganger of Belinda.)

(Updated again Apr. 18, 2015 when I finally learned who Belinda really is.)

This is the first post in which I give the source material for all photo montages seen in the new book One Family Together Forever, which I published on Monday. (You can buy the book by clicking on the icon on the top right of this page.)

For montages of the 13 Barefoot Family Farm residents throughout the book:

• Upper limbs: From the Facebook page of Brittany Barefoot, a real person in Greenwood, SC.  She graduated from high school in 2008 and the University of South Carolina in 2012; as of 2014, she sold Mary Kay cosmetics while hoping to gain a job in nursing.  (Her younger sister Danielle graduated from USC in 2014.)  However, in most cases, the arms are from Bailey Miller, a school classmate who went to Erskine College in Due West, SC and also played on the "Flying Fleet" soccer team.  Both were in the same "senior day" photograph, as was a third student named Mariam Nasrollahi.  (Here's what the original picture looks like.)
• Lower limbs: From an unidentified model on the blog In Wonderland with Alice.  It was closed to public access in 2014, but I was able to get the picture on my hard drive before that occurred, and I've placed it here as well.  The picture was taken in Pennsylvania.
• Solo portraits of family members: Porch picture from the Honest Abe blog, sky changed from slate blue to light blue via new layer and light-blue brush colors

For "covers" of Down Home magazine: These are Microsoft Word adaptations of stationery I made up with the Greeting Card Factory software, made by Nova Development of Riverside, CA.  Names of "artists" (Rebecca Rapp on pages 4 and 29, Bonnie Mae Brookshire on page 37, and Laura Faye Beavers on page 49) were created using various fonts that resemble signatures that artists would use.

For specific farm residents:
Buddy Wayne (page 10)

• Face: John "Bubba" Britton, former contestant on reality game show Beg, Borrow & Deal which aired on ESPN in 2002. He has worked at a computer-parts wholesale company for many years.
• Shirt: The shirt itself was retrieved from a website called Smart Casual Dress Code. The picture of a bluebird came from a site called Wet Canvas; when I imported the file, I renamed it “bluebird and rainbows.”
• Pants: Picture of Arizona Jeans, a brand owned by JCPenney, from an eBay page.

Brenda (page 14)

• Face: Kim Blitchington, former teacher at the Montessori School in Columbus, OH.  (The current staff directory can be found here.)
• Shirt: Denver Broncos T-shirt for women, retrieved from NFL Shop, with the color changed from orange to light blue via hue and saturation changes and the logo removed through the clone stamp tool. The wording was self-created with bold Arial font. Benson Mule Days is an actual event that takes place each fall in Benson, NC. The photo of the mule is actually cut off from a two-mule picture I found at the event’s official site.
• Pants: Arizona Jeans, as mentioned earlier.

Bobby Ray (page 18)

• Face: Travis Sampson. Originally from eastern Tennessee, he was a cast member on Survivor: Vanuatu in 2005. Before that, he was on My Life is a Sitcom, which was on ABC Family in 2003. Sampson is also a former professional wrestler.
• Shirt: Generic gray T-shirt from Ibiley. Logo was originally created at says-it.com, a humorous graphics design site based in Texas, and later modified to represent the family business. (The original logo was a crest with the bottom inscription “INNOCENT AND FREE.”)
• Pants: Again from Arizona Jeans.

Jennifer (page 22)

• Face: Brandy Barefoot, resident of Opp, AL. Brandy is not to be confused with the Brandy Barefoot character I have contrived, to be introduced later. My first word of her was a local news story about her receiving a kidney transplant from a fellow church member. (Unfortunately, this is now a dead link.) The face is a composite of the hair from the Facebook page, and the lower face from the WSFA page; I removed Brandy’s glasses by way of the clone stamp tool.
• Shirt: Recolored Broncos top with family farm logo replacing the original.
• Pants: From Brady Poirier’s file, originally from a woman who was walking her dog. 

Belinda (page 26)

• Face and clothes: Emily Brannon, daughter of a cousin of Deb Holmes of Chesapeake, VA.  Holmes first got my attention when an Internet search I did came up with Buddy Wayne’s name (the original real person) on a site with a collection of obituaries. (The original, that of Randall Carrington Lee of Benson, NC, can be found at http://www.wemightbekin.com/Raynor.pdf). We have since communicated by e-mail and have even become Facebook friends! Picking Emily made it easier for me since I did not have to add clothes or arms to the original as I had to do with everyone else. All I had to do was add the legs.

Bryson (page 30)

• Face: Unknown male, photographed by Thomas McCabe. I attempted to reconnect to the source website that I visited early in 2012, but the search was unsuccessful.
• Clothing: Coverall as seen on the Discovery Channel program Moonshiners. I took a still capture of Tim Smith, who is part of the cast, wearing it. 

Alonzo "Popeye" (page 34)

• Face: Brack Maggard, co-owner of RAB Racing with Brack Maggard in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. This is based on a picture taken when he was a driver in the ARCA Racing Series. I then used Photoshop to "airbrush" away the logos and the blur tool to get rid of pixels that had lots of what could be called either noise or static.
• Cap: The original ARCA logo was painted out and the Bass Pro Shops logo put in its place.
• Body: A professional model (retrieved from polyvore.com) was used with his face removed and replaced by Popeye’s. No new arms or legs were needed, and only the foot from “Alice” was used. The original color of the coveralls was a darker blue than shown here; the settings were reduced by taking down the hue and saturation settings. 

Gillie Ann "Annie" (page 38)

• Face: Emily Barefoot, marketing agent at C&D Insurance Services in Angier, NC. She is also a former real estate agent with Ellis Barbour and Company in Dunn, NC; I got the picture from the agency's website when she worked there.
• Top and pants: Same file, uploaded by Poirier, originally of the woman walking the dog. 

Ralph (page 42)

• Hat: Same as that found on Popeye, but with an overlay of camouflage. The camo comes from what Mariam Nasrullahi wears in the Greenwood High School photo.
• Face: Brett Barefoot, who has worked for the last 10 years at the University of Mississippi. As of early 2014, his latest assignment was in the child-care department; earlier, he had been the head of training and compliance in its financial-aid department. He is a 2004 graduate of “Ole Miss.”
• Shirt: Gray t-shirt mentioned earlier, recolored a kelly green commonly found in the American outdoors. I came up with the slogan “BOW TO THE BOW,” which is an example of homonyms (two words spelled the same, but with different pronunciations).  The first “bow” (pronounced like wow) indicates submission or superiority, while the second “bow” (pronounced like go) is a common hunting instrument. The depiction of a buck comes from the grave of Burness Dean “Bubba” Brister of Vidor, TX. I used the brush tool to make a clearer outline and the erase tool to “hollow out” the illustrated design.  I wrote the slogan using the Birch Standard font.
• Pants: Arizona Jeans copy, recolored light brown due to hue/saturation and curves adjustment layers.

Harvey (page 46)

• Face: Justin Barefoot was a star baseball player at South Johnston High School (Banner, NC) in the first decade of the 21st century. He was good enough to play in a state all-star game, then won a scholarship to Clemson University. However, Justin never played a game for the Tigers, instead transferring to the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His last game there was played in 2008. Two years later, he opened Barefoot Outdoors in Smithfield. The store, still open today, sells bows, arrows, and related equipment.
• Shirt: Carolina Panthers authentic jersey, which fans can buy at the NFL Shop. The number “53” is a reference to Billy Bob Ribble, another one of my characters of whom I explain fully later in this book. The NFL shield on the original jersey was brushed out. 

Reba Pearl "Hambone" (page 50)

• Face: Alyssa Barefoot. As of late 2010, she was a senior at South Johnston High School, where she was a cheerleader. She had also launched a career as a model and a photo gallery on her Facebook page has a two-picture portfolio she had planned to send to local agencies. However, that page has not changed since that time, and it is unclear what has become of her over the last four years.
• Top: Broncos female top with logo removed and recolored pink (not only the family color for patriarch “Pink” Barefoot but also Hambone’s personal favorite color) via hue and saturation adjustments. The Barefoot Family Farm logo was then attached.
• Bottom: The Arizona Jeans shorts were given a lighter shade by having some of the saturation removed.

I have also included this background information:
Hambone performance video by Steve Hickman
Her dumb beliefs
My favorite incorrect answers
Books by Richard Benson in a similar vein: F In Exams, F For Effort, and F This Test

Brandy (page 56)

• Face: Amanda Barefoot, who attends UNC Wilmington with a major of elementary education, and also volunteers at a local school in Benson. In 2010, she won Miss Benson at Benson Mule Days - the local festival mentioned earlier - and got print and video features in The Wall Street Journal. (Here is the video feature.)
• Shirt: Same white T-shirt that Buddy Wayne wears. Although it is more suitable for men than for women, both genders wear shirts like these for golf outings. Given the Hurricanes’ logo patch on her left side, this is definitely from a corporate event when she worked for the team. I retrieved the logo from Wikipedia.

Britton "Bunky" (page 60)

• Face: Brandon Davidson, model and reality television contestant. On season 5 of The Amazing Race, which aired on CBS in 2006, Davidson and his partner Nicole O’Brian finished in third place. (Coincidentally, Nicole is Brandy’s middle name.) I took the picture from CBS’ official page for that season, which has since been torn down. Because Davidson’s original publicity photo was taken in bright sunlight that reflected straight on his hair, I had to use the clone stamp tool to fill in the space.
• Shirt: Original white T-shirt with the new Barefoot Family Farm logo.
• Pants: Through reduction of hue and saturation, were made a lighter shade.

My new photo book IS now available!

Another post about One Family Together Forever, and it's a lot better news than two days ago.

The book is now complete!

It is available from Lulu, the same place that sold my two previous works, The Buddy Wayne Chronicles and My Ideal World.  I am very excited about this one, because for the first time people can see what my characters look like. 

This is the culmination of some two years of hard work, both at home and in classes at school.  I would like to thank my teacher, Brady Poirier, for all his patience, dedication, and support of my efforts.  When I had a question, he almost always had a quick answer.

To buy One Family Together Forever, please click on the book cover to the right of this blog.  I'm getting $1.60 per copy sold, and with my continued precarious financial position, every little bit helps.

One more thing: Sometime this week, I will post the sources and techniques for every montage you see here.  It's important for me to do that to acknowledge the real people whose faces I used to create the "pictures" used in the book, and hopefully to minimize objections to their use, or other legal issues.

Thanks for your attention, and enjoy!

My new book is not ready - yet

This is the post in which I had hoped to announce the sale of the One Family Together Forever photo book, published with the help of Lulu.

However, as I opened Lulu Studio, the cloud-based editing program it uses, I realized that the photo book template does not allow for exact replication of a file I had done on Microsoft Word, the program I had used to upload my two previous book projects.  The solution I originally had was to drag and drop the photos I had collected and placed in the original file in the template provided, but Lulu does not allow for this.  Instead, I have to find the pictures - again - and upload them to the server.  With my DSL connection, it typically takes about a minute for Lulu to complete the process for each picture.

Worse, on Thursday - the first day I officially started work on it -  I was disconnected from the cloud four times as Lulu apparently had a bad day.  This is the error message I received each time:

I hope to get an explanation sometime next week.  In the meantime, I resumed on Friday and encountered no similar problems.

The upshot is that I have completed only a little more than half of the book - namely, the introduction, parts about the 13 characters in the house, and the first two pictures in the section about the property.  I will likely not return to the project until Monday, and maybe by Tuesday I'll complete it.

Believe me, once it's done all the ordering information will be right here at this blog.