Assignment 1

Eye of the Dragon

In this picture, I combined 5 separate photos/drawings. The Dragon's head is actually a pencil drawing that I made several years ago. I applied masks to every photo/drawing using the magnetic lasso tool to define their individual shapes. I created a group for each photo/drawing, so that I could organize my adjustments and filters (once the group was formed, I applied each mask to it's respective group). The adjustments I used on various layers included brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, levels, vibrance, exposure, and curves. I also used the Unsharp Mask filter multiple times. Some of the other tools I used were the smudge and burn tools. After everything was finished I went back to the mask tab and adjusted the mask edges so that they were smooth and feathered; I wanted the entire composition to blend. That's pretty much it. :)