Compositing an image. pt 2

To Create my image by adding an object from another image, I cut out the car using the magic wand tool and the add/subtract from selection options. I resized the car correctly and created a copy of the layer. I then added a motion blur to the layer and erased some of the parts that werent neccesary. I then got a picture of a dust trail and cut it out using the magic wand tool. Then i used the eraser with about 35/40% transparency to make the dust look realistic.

Compositing an image

To create this image I took the background image and an image of a plane. Firstly I used the magic wand tool, using the add and subtract from selection tools aswell, to cut the plane out from its background. I then pasted it into the background in this image. I then copied the layer and added a motion blur to it. Next I erased part of the layer to leave a blurry trail behind the plane. I then added a blur to the background layer which causes the plane to be in focus and look alot more realistic.

This filter is called 'sumi-e'. All it really does is make the main part of the picture really dark, darkening the darker tones. I fiddled with the settings untill I got an image that I thought looked reasonably decent.

Filters - dark strokes

For this image I used the 'dark strokes' filter. basically I applied the filter and fiddled with the settings to make the dark parts of the image alot bolder. This filter also blurred the background a bit more which is quite good.

Filter - pinch

For the pinching filter I created a 'fish eye' effect. to do this I set the filter to 'pinch' the image by - 79%. Then I clicked 'OK'

The image I was left with has a 'fish eye' effect to it.

Filters - liquify

The filter I used here is the 'Liquify' filter which allows you to 'smudge' your image. Basically I just found a part of the image I wanted to distort or curl and used the filter to do so, by 'stretching' the image using the brush.

This is the edited image. I curled all the points on the wings and made the eyes distorted.

Editing using the colour brush

To create this image I used the hue/saturation tool to make it all black and white. I then used the colour brush and chose a suitable colour to colour the part I wanted in. For instance on the milk bowl I used yellow and reduced the opacity to about 50%.

I like this method of editing however it is quite time consuming and you have to concentrate alot to get the edges right.