I believe I can fly by edie

I believe I can fly

For my get pushed challenge...a shot that depicts the phrase "in my dreams"
I decided to have a bit of fun with editing. Maybe a bit cliché but it was a great learning experience.
so fun! I need to know how to do this?
June 25th, 2013  
A brilliant effect it has to be a Fav
June 25th, 2013  
@michellelittle Thank you! I have to tell you it was a lot of trial and error...about a month until I get photoshop so this was a combination of ipiccy and picmonkey. The original photo she is completely surrounded by sky. She jumped and I was quite low shooting up so I made it easier on myself that way but I still needed to cut around her figure with the overlays and that was hard. (and not perfect) I think it is easier with photoshop. So I added the stars and erased them from her figure and darkened the sky as it was a very sunny day and the original photo is almost white. Does that help at all?
June 25th, 2013  
@snowy Thank you so much!! I wasn't too confident in it when I posted.
June 25th, 2013  
June 25th, 2013  
It's brilliant - it has a really dream like quality - I'm humming a bit to see if I've got another song and another photo
June 25th, 2013  
great processing.
June 25th, 2013  
Super shot! Well done!
June 25th, 2013  
It is awesome and very dreamy!! Well done!
June 25th, 2013  
and I believe this is super awesome !:)
June 25th, 2013  
fun processing and great shot
June 25th, 2013  
Love it, the processing is fab.
June 25th, 2013  
Fantastic job on the processing. Came out really well!
June 25th, 2013  
Brilliant!
June 25th, 2013  
Brilliant shot, love it. Fantastic effect
June 25th, 2013  
Lovely processing and a great pov
June 25th, 2013  
Great shot
June 25th, 2013  
Oh and sweet editing too..
June 25th, 2013  
Floating in the sky? Sounds like my dreams too!
June 25th, 2013  
Fantastic shot, looks so dreamy- love the processing and your creativity!
June 26th, 2013  
Fabulous shot and editing. Love the dreamy feeling here.
June 26th, 2013  
Amy
Terrific shot!
June 26th, 2013  
Mac
Total fave! I love stars and floating girls!
June 26th, 2013  
Wonderful processing.
June 26th, 2013  
cool editing, great work!

:D
June 26th, 2013  
this is pretty darned cool!
June 26th, 2013  
Fantastic shot a well deservd fav,if you dont mind me asking,do you have photo software photoshop etc if so which one would you wrecomend,we have apple mac which has iphoto,so it must work with it,hope you dont mind:)
June 26th, 2013  
@stevepam Thank you! And thank you for the fav. I don't mind at all. I posted a bit above. I don't have photoshop (yet) My sister does computer animation and will be visiting from the UK this summer so she is bringing me PS and a lesson in it. I'm excited and intimidated. Right now I use the free sites. For this one I used picmonkey and ipiccy.
I started with a photo of her surrounded by sky though which made the processing a little easier. She jumped off a rock and I was lying on the ground shooting up so she was surrounded by air...but it was midday on a hot sunny day so it was pretty much white around her. I used an overlay and erased what was on the figure and I used cloning to try and smooth it out a bit. I think the high key helps and I'm not 100 percent happy with the smoothness of the transition but it took a long time to get there. I am hoping ps has something that 'recognizes' the outlined shape. I found something on picmonkey that would darken her and not the sky but I couldn't find the reverse effect. Those sites are free. You should check them out.
June 26th, 2013  
Okay, more than one overlay..and the stars were done with an overlay but in small bits so I didn't have to erase. Does that make sense?
June 26th, 2013  
Fav! Love the feeling of the shot! I believe!
June 26th, 2013  
@edie Thank you for sharing that with us,we are still learning,it will be great when we are able to do effects like you and other talented people on365,thank you again:)
June 26th, 2013  
@stevepam www.picmonkey.com
fun and sooo easy
June 26th, 2013  
Oh wow this is magical!!! I think you did a fantastic job, especially considering you were only using free software. Amazing what can be done!
June 26th, 2013  
Very cool! It feels magical!
June 26th, 2013  
Superb! :-)
June 26th, 2013  
Nice magic shot.
June 26th, 2013  
Wicked cool processing!!
June 27th, 2013  
this is just magical! superb shot and love the processing! fav!
July 1st, 2013  
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