You’ve got me inspired to check out the youtube and also to “play around” in Excel. Can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge. I will get back to you once I have veiwed your entire youtube “how to”.
Can't emphasize enough it's best to let the great images you find steadily refine your idea of what your composition will be.
At first you will have a general idea of what you're looking for, but you need to flexibly adapt your original concept to move toward the most "perfect" meme given the source materials -- and time -- you have to work with.
In the Trump and Fischer meme, finding the extraordinary 3D chessboard allowed me to show Trump and Fischer standing side by side. It served to hide the fact that I only had an upper torso of Fischer and a right side of Trump. Without the vertical 3d chessboard I would have had to reconstruct the whole left side suit of Trump since it was hidden by another person in the original shot.
You're the first person to express great interest in the technique and video. That makes the effort I put into the video worthwhile.
Since the video, I've begun to play with various meme types:
Red Tsunami -- This was a pretty ambitious meme. I tried to convey the awesome power of Deplorable voters through an analogy of a tsunami interrupting the plans of a Leftist dinner and cocktails on the beach.
Melania in Yellow -- Sometimes you get very lucky and the background lines up nicely with the person in front. What's not seen here is the hour or so I spent looking for the best Venus de Milo to go with Melania's stunning yellow dress she wore for dinner in London.
Mollie Tibbets in Wyeth painting -- A couple people criticized this image as being "tacky" and maybe cheapening the famous Andrew Wyeth painting. But given I only spent a couple hours on the piece, I think it conveys the feeling of Iowa farm fields and the shock Mollie's mother must have felt. Besides, the picture invites FReepers to explore Wyeth's paintings and maybe visit his museum.
HTML Christmas GIF for Trump Family -- Here's an unusual one. It's an HTML technique to put an animated GIF background under a series of images inside an HTML table. In one of the comments I fully explain the technique.
Occasional Cortex -- I introduced the pun "Occasional Cortex" here on FR and created a meme to go along with it. This is the kind of meme I want to do more of because the humorous side of the meme enables me to get a political point across.
So I thank you, georgiegirl, for your interest and inspiration to continue on my path. Stay in touch.
Until I get my own picture collection up and running, Google Images has stored quite a few of my memes.
