Bequest+Texture



The first thing I did for this picture was I created the tennis court as the background. Then I went to the picture of Julia and used the magic wand tool to cut her out. Then I dragged her picture onto the tennis court and re-sized her body to make it look more realistic. After I did that I used the paintbrush to erase away the part of her body where the fence overlapped. I wanted it to look like she was behind the fence at the time because there is a big close up of the lines on the fence. So once her body was erased away a little, a put some gray color where the fence was and then used the smudge tool to blend in the feeling of the fence all across the picture. Once her body looked right, I used the burn tool to bring some more color to Julia's face. Also, I used levels, curves and exposure on the background to make the tennis courts pop. After that, I used the magic wand to cut out the tennis ball on a different picture. Then I dragged it over to the main picture and re-sized it down really small. Then I moved it to the back corner of the tennis court to make it look like someone left it there. I used brightness/contrast, vibrance and hue/saturation on the ball to make it look like it blends in. I used rule of thirds to make Julia look more interesting in the picture. The texture in this picture is portrayed on the fence right in front of the lens and on the tennis courts to show the relations and feelings u receive when stepping on those courts. Also, I put emphasis on the tennis courts to give the observer a gratifying feeling when looking at it. I think that I could work more on making the lines more defined and crisp on the fence in order to make it a little more realistic. Other than that, I think I did a really good job at making Julia look like she's on the other side of the fence and making the tennis ball in the background really blend in.