Emma+Keziah+-+Texture




 * Changes I Made in my Image**
 * 1) brightness and contrast in 1st and 2nd layer
 * 2) Edit sharpness on the hands
 * 3) lasso flowers, hands and leaves
 * 4) Erase around the edges of the hands
 * 5) Change color focus on the background
 * 6) Added purple and yellow flowers to the background
 * 7) Cropping and resizing the flowers and leaves
 * 8) Changing brightness and contrast in the hands to make the lighting match with the background
 * 9) Darkened the background image
 * 10) Adjusted the lighting and brightness on the whole image

The first change I made to my starting two images was adjusting the brightness and contrast between the two so that the lighting would match and make my image look more realistic. This is a step that I continued to experiment with throughout the duration of my time creating the image because it not only made my piece look more put together, it made the texture more visible and apparent. The next step I decided to take was editing the sharpness on the hands because since the background picture has a high focus on the lands and not on the background of the image, I wanted to draw more attention to the hands. My third and fourth images that I added to my piece were the two pictures of the flowers. I wanted to add a pop of color along with the leaves, so I thought that I'd put them in the background of my piece to add some detail. I used the lasso tool to take individual flowers and leaves from separate images and add them to my image. I also used the lasso tool to put the hands onto the picture of the plants. After the lasso, I erased any excess from the flowers and leaves so they would look more in place and not as messy. I wanted to add purple flowers to the background to not only add more detail, but to add a more vibrant feel to the image because I felt that it was a little dull still even after I added the orange leaves. I also added yellow daffodils from another image to add to the texture of the background, and because the color scheme worked very well. I also had to resize the leaves and flowers so they would be the same size as the white fuzzy things on the plants in the background. For the 8th step, I again messed around with different brightness and other tools such as that to math the brightness of the two images so the hands wouldn't look so out of place. Next, I darkened the background image because I felt that the image itself had more of an eerie feel to it, and making the image darker would add to the overall feel of the image. Lastly, I again adjusted the brightness, contrast and overall sharpness of the image.