Tina Leung - Project 4

I chose to put my godson, Hudson, in outer space because of the chair that he's sitting in in this photo. I found a background that I like and editted it by clipping a gradient to it and used the wind filter to add some movement. I also upped the contrast and adjusted the color using the levels tool.

I took Hudson off of his original background using the polygonal lasso and blurred the edges. Then I enhanced that photo's color using levels as well.

After finding a moon picture, I used the magic wand to select the black background then inverted my selection to copy and paste it into this image. I then clipped a gradient to the moon and warped the left side to add more depth.

I merged the shooting star down to the background in order to blend the edges well after using a screen to overlay it. I also had to rotate it a bit to get the right angle.

The top text is just black with an outer glow and the bottom text is white.

I tried liquifying the back of Hudson's image to show some movement but didn't like the outcome so I undid it. I'm still looking for a way to get a better affect for this type of image.

Overall, I had a lot of fun with this project :)

I actually like the polygonal lasso tool a lot because it's a more simple way to make a selection when background colors are very close to the main object.