Blog # 3- Surrealism

Surreal Project 9-26-08

For this project I used three images and layered them...First I took the image of New York City with a purple background and used free transform to scale it to look right with the moon background. The eraser tool was used to erase the purple background. I also used the 'multiply' option to make it less see through (some of the buildings seemed to have a little bit of a see through effect which I didn't want). Next I found a picture of a dragon and layered it with the others, free transformed it so I could make it in the exact position I wanted it in and scaled it to the right size. I wanted to make it look like the dragon is sitting on a building, but the top of the buildings aren't all wide enough so hopefully it looks okay. After erasing the background with the eraser tool(which became rather tedious getting inbetween his wings, etc). I then darkened him since he sort of had a little bit of a very thin outline from not getting close enough with the eraser, so darkening it took care of that so it wasn't visible. I enjoyed creating this and can hopefully continue learning more photoshop techniques to use for the next project.