My false photo...

I first opened the photo's i wanted to use to create my raindeer with berry twig antlers.

I then zoomed in and used the magnetic lasso tool to go aroung the twig and berrys..

I then erased the background, de-selencted the twig and used the rubber to remove the excess background.

I then repeated the same process with the raindeer.

Next i dragged the antlers onto the raindeer flipped one and resized them to fit and dragged the two layes below the raindeer.

I then opened the photo that i wanted to use as the background.

Next i dragged the raindeer on and re - sized it.

To make the falling snow i added a new layer on top  and filled it black.

Filter > noise > add noise, > 100% > tick gaussian and monochromatic ( make sure uniform is un checked)

Filter > blur > gaussian blur > radius 3.5

Enhance > adjust lighting > leveles (untill i got the amount of snow i wanted)

 I then changed the layer style to screen

Blur > motion blur > 65 degrees > distance 3 pixels

 

 

My final photo....

 



My Not sure photo....


First i opened the photos that i wanted to use.

 Next i used the magnetic lassoo tool to sepperate the shire horse from the rest of the background.

 

I then erased the background cropped the photo and slightly darkened the colour.

 



 

 

I then dragged the horse onto the forest and re-sized it to the right size to appear to be running through the forest.

 

 

 

 I then cut out the butterfly using the same method as with the shire horse.

 

 

 

 After that i changed the colour of the butterfly and rubbed out the background.

To finish i dragged butterflys onto my photo resized them, adjusted the angle and positioned them around  the horse.


My final photo.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My 'True' photo

 

First i opened my background photo and all the ducks i wanted to use.

 

Next i used the magnetic lasso tool draw around the duck, then i inverted the selection.

 

 

I then removed the background and used the eraser to rub out any excess bits of background and repeated this process for all of the ducks.

 

Then i dragged the ducks onto the background, positioned and re-sixed them to make them look realistic.

 

 

Next i adjusted the levels of the background. 

 

 

Finally i de-saturated the background to fit in with the ducks.

 

My Final photo...

 

 

Erik Johansson

 

Erik johansson is a photographer and re-touch artist from Sweeden, currently based in Berlin, Germany.

 

These are the two photos that he took in camera...

 

 

He then used them to create his final image... 

His final outcome  

 

 Some of his other images...