PICTURE ELEMENTS
Sometimes we look at a picture and wonder, how would it look like with this? How would it look like that? Well, in this post you will learn how to make it look exactly like that! So, let's start!
Firstly, we will grab a photograph we may have in our gallery, in my case I have chosen a landscape of a lake in Canada (the rights to the picture aren't mine)
When looking at it for the first time I though, how would it look like with a bird on top of that log? Or how would it look like with some ducks swimming? Or how would a slightly cloudy sky look in this picture?
To do this we will be using transparent images, which you can easily find in google. In my case I will be using pictures of a heron, a duck, and some clouds.
To use them, you can copy them onto the picture, and add them to a new layer. Once you have done that, place them where you see fit and use the eraser tools to erase any little imperfections. After doing that with each picture, use the pencil with a dark color in a layer under all of the pictures. With that, you will do a little bit of shadows. Set the filter to darken, or multiply (or anything if the shading looks okay as it is) and lower the opacity until it looks good. Now, using the tools in the tool box, you can blurry some elements in the picture so it looks like they actually belong there, and if you want, you can even add some highlights using the same method we used for the shadows.
And, we will get something like this! Cool right? It may not be perfect, but at the end of the day, nothing is. Besides, always remember that learning a program takes time, and you shouldn't bring yourself down if the first few projects you do don't look as expected. It takes time, and that's okay.
Talking about time, check in these next week for a brand new project with this program. Until then, why not use what you have learned to do something special?
