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Photomontage of kiwis and lemons, digitally manipulated using GIMP

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. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final image may appear as a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. 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 composite of related photographs to extend a view of a single scene or subject would not be labeled as a montage.

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  • Oscar-gustave-rejlander two ways of life (HR, sepia)

    The Two Ways of Life, a moralistic photo montage of Rejlanders own work, 1857-a choice between vice (at left) and virtue (at right)

  • Henry Peach Robinson, Fading Away, 1858

    Robinson's Fading Away (1858)

  • Carnival, South End Exhibition Rink, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 1899

    Carnival, South End Exhibition Rink, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, February 1899; The carefully prepared photomontage composite was a Notman specialty, each figure being photographed separately and then combined as a single image

  • Articulos electricos para el hogar - Grete Stern, 1950

    A 1950 photomontage by Grete Stern

  • M8 Flughafen München (cropped)

    BMW M8 GTE endurance race car at Munich airport in 2021

  • Hoch-Cut With the Kitchen Knife

    Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919

  • Osnovnoye Design for a stand at the entrance to an exhibition of works by the students of the Basic Course of VKhUTEMAS Design project for the emblem of the Basic Course of VKhUTEMAS - Gustavs Klucis

    Gustav Klutsis, design for a stand at the entrance to an exhibition, 1920

  • El Lissitzky The Constructor, self-portrait, gelatin silver print, 107×118 mm, 1924 London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Inv. PH142-1985

    El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1924

  • Example of photomontage based on Delimara Power Station 2009

    Composite of 11 different images

  • 08913-Perspective Run

    Perspective run

  • Iceberg

    Photomontage showing what a complete iceberg might look like under water

  • Fotocollage crop

    Fotocollage

  • Coin - Achraf Baznani

    A modern photomontage

  • Showing five instead of four in addition to the thumb with one extra finger added in the hand

    Showing five digits instead of four

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