Floating Mountain

The Purpose:

I learned how to to extract a mountain from a photograph and place it into another picture 

and make it seem like it belonged there...well as much as a mountain in a sky could belong.  I also learned much about pixel fringe and how to get rid of it.

The Process:   

The first step was to select the mountain from a photo, edit it using the refine edge tool by going over the edges to remove excess pixels from the original background. Then I simply placed it into the layer with the sky. The sky originally had text in it, so using the content aware tool I circled parts of the sky and used them to cover the text. To make this look realistic though, I added a tip to the mountain. To do this I used the select tool and drew the tip I wanted on the mountain. Next I brought that down and blended the edges for it to look realistic. Then to have it seem liked it belonged in that atmosphere, I created a cloud and brought it in front of the mountain by using a layer mask and the refine edge tool. Next I enhanced the background by adjusting the hue/saturation and blending mode of the island and the sky. In addition to that I created black and white layers and used blending modes to also enhance the background. Finally I added a sun and spaceship. It was fairly easy to do because all I needed to do was use the quick select and refine edge tool and then put it in the sky where I wanted them to be.

Things Learned:

This assignment helped me to learn a lot more about Photoshop and the many tools you can use to combine images and create unique images.