ADJUSTMENT LAYERS/ MASKING EXERCISE

Using masking to blend two images together with a brush tool or a gradient tool.

I used 1 layer to mask the image and reveal the background with a soft feathered brush to gradually build gradient between to images.

The upper lip was cut out using the Polygonal Lasso Tool and added to the adjustment layer where I changed the lightness to create a black colour.  After I used the brush tool to reveal the red and give the upper lip a tint.

To the lower lip, I used the lasso tool to cut out and change the hue of a little oval part to add gloss to the lip.

I also cut out the eyes and used the brush tool to reveal the background image in the eyes holes.





To experiment with compositing images I tried to merge my own image with some owl wings. Unfortunately, my attempt turned out pretty unrealistic and rough however it gave me the chance to morph images and experiment with scaling to achieve a composite. In this I used the Free Transform Tool and played with the images and masking the images to create a gradient between two images and make them blend. -->



<-- I added the owl eyes and the other wing.
The shade of the jumper was changed by selecting the magic wand tool and highlighting jumper only. I added a adjustment layer and changes the Hue and saturation.











I darkened the entire image using a Curves adjustment layer. By moving the little square around the grid you can change the exposure, shadows and saturation of a image. I made the image more dark to suit it to the background.