Creation of Choice

This is my wonderful photo. Of Leah, Biancha, Valynncia, Alli, and Corrina (me). This was our girls night (GNO) out, we are at Wal-mart messing with some glasses.

Ok so I started with the background layer, I then took the brush tool (pressing B), I then selected the stamp of a plain black photograph, I next made a new layer (naming it Photo Stamps). At first I just made as many photo stamps that I could fit on the page, I then took the Marquee Tool (pressing M). I then made a box around the stamp and then went to Edit, Free Transform, and I then rotated the stamp which ever way. I did this will all the stamps I had made then more till I got that ^ look.

Next after a long fight with people I finally got the pucture I wanted. I kind of had a hard time getting the picture to look right, but after trying to drag it over from another document I ended up making a new layer (GNO) and then I went to File, Place, then selected the picture and then, I went to Edit, Free Tramsform, and made the picture bigger, so it was covering all the photo stamps. I next click the icon of the GNO layer and clicked select pixels and went to Curves: topdot- Input: 75 Output: 100. I then selected the GNO layer and right clicked the icon, and selected Creat Clipping Mask. I also did the same for the Curves layer. Next I again selected the GNO layer and went to Filter, Sharpen, Sharpen Edges. (thus creating a filter). I then made that layer into a Clipping Mask the same as I did to GNO and Curves layers, and also changed the layer opacity to21%.

Next I added some Text: LIVE  LAUGH LOVE.

I did each word on a different layer because originally I was going to do something different to each word but then I just ended up dont the same to each word. I used, Kunstler Script, size 125pt, and made it a darker green. I then use the Used the move arrow, but just going to the tool bar and clicking it, and I move all the word to the bottom of the picture. Next I went back to the background layer and made a black stroke around the border on the photo. Stroke: size 38px, Inside, blending mode Pin Light, opacity 100%, color Black. I then decided that I didnt like the background white, so I took the Paint Bucket Tool (pressing shift G) and selected a very light goldish-yellow, and clicked the whitebackground. Next I went to the Google on the Internet and looked up Rose clipart, I then found on and saved it to my documents. Finally I went back to Photoshop and went to File, Open, Selected the rose photo and clicked ok. Once I was on the rose document I clicked the Magis Easer Tool (by just clicking the tool bar). I then got rid of all the white by just clicking on the white area. I then split the screen to the two open documents and drug the rose over to the GNO picture. once on there I moved the layer to under the Photo Stamps layer so it wasnt on top of the picture. Next I went to Edit, Free Transform, and moved the rose to the right top corner and hit the Enter key. Next I copyed the Rose layer by having it selected and then hitting CTRL+J, then I went to Edit, Transform, Flip Horizontal, then I moved the second rose to the left top corner. Then I was Done! =]

I really like how the picture turned out. It looks like a photo collage, but only makes one picture instead of a collage with a bunch of different pictures.