The Love-ly Isle of Dracon

The Love-ly Isle of Dracon

The Floating Island entailed learning about extracting pictures and eliminating the pixel fringe around the image so you could combine several pictures together to form an entirely new photo. Using Photoshop, I extracted the island from a photograph of an island off a beach. I then embedded it into the cloud photo used behind. Taking a copy of both pictures, I copied them and made the copies darker so it has a dramatic feel to the photo. I then selected a cloud and copied it in front of the image of the island, to make it feel like the island wasn't just pasted in front of a picture. Along the way, I found out how to copy a selected portion of the isle to create a point at the end of the island to make it look like a spire.
Finding dragon pictures on the internet, I embedded them into the picture to make them look like they're flying around my floating island. I found out how to cast their shadows on the clouds by using a dark brush tool set to a low opacity. Finally, I used a picture of stars, set the picture in front of all of the others, and then used screen lighting to get rid of the black space and leave the stars as snowflakes blowing in the air. All in all, I loved the project, as I got to exploit some of my creativity. But one thing I would change if I could would be the type of dragons I chose for this project, as they were not the easiest to embed. Yet the snow I would keep, as it makes me feel like my project stand out among my peers'.
Perhaps in future projects I would be able utallize the abilities to take out photos and combine them in different ways so I could create things like book covers or posters. I truly enjoyed this project and hope for more like this to come in the near future.