Cave Dancer Photoshop Session 13/10/2023

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In today's session we worked to combine several images that we were given together in order to create the image of a dancer inside a cave with a wooden floor and bats flying in the background. To do this I used Adobe Photoshop 2023 and all the tools it provided. Below are all the images I was given to combine, as well as the final product.





Firstly I removed the break-dancer from the city background by using the object selection tool to remove the background. In places parts of the dancer were semi-transparent or still had parts of the background attached, so I manually removed these parts using the eraser and polygonal lasso tool. Once I had the dancer cut out I created a separate canvas to work on removing the dance floor. To do this I selected the floor using the Pen tool, rounding the edges slightly before selecting the floor as a mask to take out the background. I also added a slight feather to the mask for easier blending.

The cave required the least effort, only needing the man within it and his reflection on the water to be removed, which I did using the clone stamp tool after creating a new canvas to work on it on. For the final asset, the bats, I once again created a new canvas to work on, then cropped out the tree at the bottom of the image and duplicated the layer. Then I used the image adjustment setting to change the image to black and white, then I adjusted the colour levels of the image to make blues and cyans completely white, making it easier to remove the sky. After tweaking the contrast of the image I selected the background with the magic wand tool, inverted the selection and created another mask for the bats.

This was the point where I could begin to combine the images together. First I added the bats into the cave, adjusting the colour levels in places so that they blended in more seamlessly with the environment, additionally adding a motion blur so they appeared to be moving. Then I added the dance floor into the cave, which was only a matter of overlaying it onto the image since the lighting already matched up. I then added in the dancer onto the dancefloor making sure they weren't too far or close to avoid them looking disproportionate. I also edited the colour levels and brightness of the dancer so that they fit better into the cave's lighting, also giving the dancer a slight blur. 

Finally I added a shadow for the dancer, by duplicating the layer and converting to a smart object. I then set a black colour overlay onto the layer before using the distort tool to make it look more like a shadow, before finally adding a gaussian blur and lowering the opacity of the shadow.

Going over the work I've done during this session I believe I learned a good amount about photo editing and cropping, and am generally happy with the end result I produced. Hopefully what I've learned today can be helpful for future assignments over the course of this semester to ensure that every artefact I produce is at the highest quality I can create them.

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