Learning Photoshop

I haven't got much work done this morning that's because i have been learning photoshop skills. My eyes are hurting!! I have Photoshop cs5 and it is quite easy to use once you know what you're doing (which obviously takes alot of time!). From looking at swan postures and taking photos of my little sister and exploring movement i wanted to combine these photos so that they did express movement! I am quite happy with the results so far and am going to keep going today exploring the different technqiues you can create...

Using linear light onto 2 images merged together. The light is really warm, and enhances all of the darker areas. My favourite area is where the arm cups the head it joins the two images together in shape as well as photoshops technique!

This was my first go at merging photos together, i left the light properties as normal so it looked soft so it was a subtle merge so you could clearly see movement.

This was a development from previous as i added in another layer and merged them all together and changed the light onto it too a soft light

I quite like this one, this is a further development into looking into black and white,positive and negatives and seems these poses were inspired by swans i thought that i could combine the two together using exlusion to seperate the two in colour but merged in pose.

I used linear light here to really enhance the colours, i love the way the colours look dip dyed on the dress this was probably the main reason why i had done it! The pattern of the flooring also comes through which i could push to create patterns.

This was a follow up to the previous merge of 3 photos, although 2 of the layers use different sorts of lighting of soft and hard light to enhance one another whilst still keeping it subtle. I also like the playfulness with scale