Fire Bird Photography: Edited image 1.

Hear I am going to do in to detail on how I did my first edited image. The images of the pains were stock images I found on Goggle as I could not find any air shows that were running this time of year to get any images of plains and I especially wanted spitfires.

1. Open the images you want to use. Got to File-Open.

2. We now need to remove all of the back ground on the officer so that we can put him on top of the plain layer. Go to Eraser tool, you can change the size of the eraser by right clicking on the image you want to edit once you have the eraser tool selected. Then you need to zoom in on the image to delete all the back ground, do this by going to View-Zoom in. Then erase around the edge of the officer. I like to use this tool and not the lasso tool as I find that has a habit of jumping around the page and becoming a little to inaccurate at times.

3. Once we have deleted the back ground I wanted to flip the plain image so that the planes were flying the other way. For this I went to Image-Image Rotation-Flip Canvas Horizontal. This moved the whole image around so it faced the other way.

4. Its time now to put the officer on the other layer, I need to highlight the officer so went to the Rectangular Marquee tool, I then selected the officer, once that was done I went to the Move Tool and dragged the officer on to the plain layer this created a new layer for the officer and now I have two layers on the plain image, one for the planes the other for the officer.

5.Now the officer is too big for the other layer so we need to resize him. We go to Edit-Free Transform and a box will come around the officer, you then use that to re-size him to the size that you want.

6. Next we need to just clean up around the officer as some of the white is still there again use the Eraser Tool and the Zoom Tool to do this.

7.I then decided to turn the image black and white to tie all of the image together and make it look like an old photograph. I did this by going to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Black and White. It then turned the whole image black and white.

8.I wanted to make the photograph look old so I had to flatten the image so that the next effect would work. I went to Layer-Flatten Image, to do this.

9.I wanted to add some noise to the image to make it look old and grainy so with the image flattened I went to Filters-Noise-Add Noise. Then a box comes up and you can change the setting to your liking adding as much noise or as little as you want.

10.I was still not happy with the overall effect so decided to change the image in to sepia, I went to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Colour Balance. That then brought a box up and you change the settings until you are happy. The red much be high, green at 0 and yellow in the – numbers. Once that was all done I flattened the image again and saved it.