Floating Mountain Tutorial

 

This is the original image that we started with. The main goal would be extract the island and put it in another setting, which will end up being the sky. Initial problems we find with this image is the branding "Fotolia..." at the bottom and the abrupt edge where the island meets the water.

In the next step we solved both of those initial problems. We used the content aware move tool to clip a piece of the ocean and drag it over the branding label. This step was more to learn a new skill since we are extracting the mountain, the branding would have been cut out anyways. Also, to fix the bottom on the island where it met the water we cut and copied a selection of the island and moved it over the top of the bottom. We warped it to fit it nicely, although this increased pixels a bit.




The next step as pictured above was to extract the island completely to place it in a new background. The new background which is pictured in its beginning stages is to the right and below.

The sky above is the original image that we then de-saturated and layered on each other. Pictured below we placed the extracted island into the sky, added a shadow on the cloud that we also manipulated to come to the front.

To finish up, I veered from the tutorial and extracted a unicorn from a separate image. I placed it as it was floating on the cloud. The only wonky thing is the shadow that I cast from the mountain now rests under the unicorn and the scaling of the unicorn in comparison to the island is a bit misfitting. For the final touch I added a title of Unicorpia and my initial MK.