Lyrical Collage

For my lyrical collage, I chose to use a line from the first verse of the song "Atlas Hands" by Benjamin Francis Leftwich. I started out with a simple picture of the sky and water that I got off of Google. Next, I opened a new file with a picture of a dock. I used the magnetic lasso tool to trace it, and then moved it onto the original picture of the water. I then used the patch tool to fix any mistakes that I made when tracing it. After that, I opened a third file with a picture of a boy jumping into water. I again used the magnetic lasso tool to trace him, and then I moved him onto the original picture. I adjusted the brightness/contrast of him because he was slightly too dark for the background. Then, I found a picture of a pirate ship and again traced it. I moved it onto the new file, and then adjusted the brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation to make it fit in with the background better. I then used the blur tool to make it appear as though it was actually in the water. Finally, I used the text tool to type the words to the verse. I adjusted the font, color, and size so that it was visible. When I attached the jpg picture, it got rather small but the real detail can be seen in the original photoshop file which will be on the student server. These are the original images I used: