Bays Assignment 1: Photoshop

Ta Da! This image is a bit random (possibly cheesy), but it's my first attempt at photoshop. It's composed of four pictures I've taken on film during traveling. The mountain background and elephant are both masks that i cut around using the polygonal lasso tool. The magnetic lasso tool turned out to be my nemesis.

The shadow under the little elephants' feet was created using the "multiply" option under the layers tab. Her legs were lengthened using the clone tool. The street running through the middle of the composition had to be manipulated using the transform tools scale, flip horizontally, rotate, skew, perspective, and free transform, and it also has a mask. Getting around the chairs and shadows from peoples feet took awhile, but two shape tool lines helped layout the perspective at which the road should lie in order to look like a sidewalk. The elephant and the street both have mask adjustments on them for feathered-ness (new word, pass it on), radius, contrast and smooth.