I didn't read the directions very well before starting, so I'm sure I'm missing some things in my project images. Oh, well... at least I had fun :)My friends took me to Astoria for my birthday and we (stupidly) decided to go find the shipwreck across the bridge in a rainstorm. It gave me the idea for the ghost ship image I did and this lesson worked out perfectly for what I wanted to do. I would like to know how to fade the far edge of the ship so that it doesn't end quite so abruptly, though.
I loved being able to use the black background to edit. It made it SO much easier. The downside was that the selecting wasn't very precise. I did have troubles with a couple of things I was trying to select (beaks on the penguins for example) and the refine edges showed through when I put my penguins on the red curtain background. It came in handy when I needed a certain look for my ship :)
The puppet warp tool was fun when I was trying to get a mars-like feel for my alien image. It took a few tries to figure out how to move it in just the right way, but it came out pretty cool for such a simple image.
Quick mask worked really well trying to get all of the cracks in the ship versus palette, but it wouldn't work the same if I had wanted the solid image.
I used alpha channel to darken the coats of the penguins.
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