COM 1113 Blog Post 7

For my meme, I incorporated the winner of the recent Daytona 500, Austin Dillon, along with a ghosted mask of Dale Earnhardt Sr.

20 years ago, Dale Earnhardt took car number 3 to victory lane in the 1998 Daytona 500, a race that he had failed to win for 20 years. 20 years after that historic win, Austin Dillon, grandson of Earnhardt's longtime car owner Richard Childress, took the 3 back to the Daytona 500 victory lane.  

To create this meme, I took a picture of Dale Sr. and masked out the background. Using the Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop, I selected the picture of Dale, and transposed it into a picture of Austin celebrating. I then added top and bottom text to the photo with text boxes.

The original photos as well as the final product can be seen below.



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