B2TextureJensen

First i started off by cropping my image which was the house. Then after i Did that I played around with the magic wand and because of the contrast of the colors it really made it hard for me to select just one whole big area, so i used the lasso tool and i cut out basically the whole background besides the house and the grass. then i proceeded to paint the whole background black with the paintbrush tool. I then started to get interested in this little window type design on the building and i decided to copy and paste a picture of a windmill to make it more interesting. The windmill picture looked a little out of place so i dissolved the picture and kept it light to enhance its look and make it more believable. I still wasn't happy with how the wind mill picture was looking on the building --i really wanted it to resemble a window or a portal so i looked for awhile and found a type of style called a striped cone button and it made the windmill picture look like a portal of some sort and added some type of wonder to my picture. i think this gave my picture a type of leading lines. After that i copy and pasted a tree to kinda fill up my open space to give it balance. I used a great deal of background eraser to blend my tree in there to make it believable like it was actually there. Then i got tired of my background and selected all of the black that i had painted prior with the help of the magic wand and I selected the cloud filter. I was very irritated when i saw that the magic want also selected the shadows from my house and from the sides of the roof. So after my cloud filter was in place i went back and painted the shadows in with the paintbrush. I then copied and pasted a picture of some sort of plant and dissolved it and selected the multiply feature i stretched the picture so it was over my whole picture to give it rhythm and mask over the pink clouds making them blue. Last I copied and pasted a grave picture to kinda mystify the Pewaukee tennis court because the tennis court just didn't fit in my masterpiece. In addition i went back and used the paintbrush and touched up by the tennis court area of the picture. All in All these were the thing that i did in Photoshop to make my picture one or unified. :)