Photoshop and Cats

For my pictures that lie photograph I chose to create the above photograph. To create this photograph I used three photographs, one of two cats, one black and one gray, a photo of a blue sky and a photo of the night sky, all of them from stock exchange. i used the magic wand to separate the cats from their background  and copied them onto a transparent layer. I then changed the opacity on the cats to make them translucent. I then used inverse select to copy the background from the cat photo and pasted it onto another layer. I then aligned the cats on the background so that it looked like the original photo but with the cats now translucent. I then cut out a section of a picture of the night sky and placed it behind the black cat so that the stars could be seen as well as the cats features. I used the same technique for the gray cat except I used a blue sky photograph instead of a night sky one. I also changed the hue and saturation on the blue sky layer to make it blend in better. I ended up changing the brightness and contrast on the night sky layer to make the stars more prominent. I also changed the hue and saturation on the cats background to make the cats stand out more. I add the a text box with the caption "As diffrente as night & day". Lastly I used the clone tool to remove some roots the looked awkward under the text.

The photograph was edited to look cute and fun. The manipulation isn't harmful since it is clearly stated that it has been manipulated and in no way claims to be true.The article I looked up talked about a new program the could detect most altered photographs, odds are mine would be picked up as an altered photograph.

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