Photoshop Reflection: "K2 in SF"

To create this photo, I used several techniques that I recently learned in Photoshop. Before starting, I chose two separate photographs. I took a picture of the Kairos 2 team and another picture of Crissy Field in San Francisco. The K2 picture was originally taken outside of the Presentation Center. The Crissy field picture was empty. I used the magnetic lasso tool to cut out the people in the Kairos photo. I then copy and pasted it to the Crissy field picture. I used the free transform tool to maneuver the picture of the leaders and make them a proportionate size to the background. I then used the eraser tool to erase any background left from the Kairos original picture. For example, there were patches of green grass around the people’s feet so I used the eraser tool to take that out. The tool erases things from the original and leaves the background to make it look more realistic.

                After cleaning the photo up, I used the edge burn technique. I created four new layers and selected black as my background color. I unchecked all of the boxes on each layer except for the layer I was working with. Using the gradient tool, I added gradient to one corner per layer. I also made sure that each layer had multiply selected.  After adding gradient, I made sure all boxes were checked. Once the edge burns were put on, I changed the filter.  I used the film grain artistic filter for the background and the poster edge filter for the people. In addition, I changed the brightness and contrast of the sky. I changed the brightness of the sky to have less clouds and look more like a foggy day rather than sunny.