B1+TextureGeffert

The first thing that I did for this piece is copy and paste the eye into the picture instead of the camera lens because I thought it would be a neat effect. Then I brightened the sunlight and selected it with the lasso tool and then used the levels to change it to make it look a little brighter so it's more dramatic. Then I put a glass filter on the eye so it would look more like a lens than an eye but still be mysterious and interesting. Then I used smart erase on the eye so that it revealed the Nikon logo so that it would then have more of a appearance of a lens. Then after that I used the magic wand and selected the tree and inserted that there to the right of Jackie and then made the background black and white so it would look like the tree is naturally there and it would also make my subject and what I want them to see stand out more. Then I smudged the right side except for the tree because it just looked right, without the smudging I feel as if the black and white wouldn't be as effective. Then after that I edited the blending options for the eye so that it popped out of the frame more and looked even more like lens. Then I and softened the edges of Jackie so that it just flowed more and utilized leading lines and fill the frame. After I did all this I re-sized it to create my final product. Which I feel is a great piece that hopefully everyone will love as much as I do.