Taffy and I continue to take our PS lessons and practice. It's been so much fun, and we both admit that we might have quit if we didn't have each other to give feedback and encouragement to keep going when hitting those walls of frustration in not being able to figure something out. We both went back to a photo trip we took in September 2016, found lots of photos we had never done anything with because they seemed kind of hopeless. I mean, that RAW photo on the top left corner looks pretty hopeless. But because we are working in two different homes and not seeing each other's work, only sharing the screen of the lesson and our heads while we are talking, neither of us realized that we were both working on photos of the same beach. The contrasting scenes speaks to how quickly the weather changes, and how dramatic the weather is in general. But most of all, we realized that Taffy had taken all long exposures and smooth waters, and I had done the opposite -- dramatic crashing and short exposures, thereby creating completely different moods. Here, the top third is one photo that shows the rain along the horizon. The bottom 2/3 is from a second photo that shows the crashing waves. You stack them together and "erase" away the top layer of the portion you want to show through from the bottom photo.
See Taffy's here: http://365project.org/taffy/365/2020-12-28
You certainly received a wonderful dramatic effect. I learned most of what I know about Photo Shop from the Scrapbooking classes I have taken. Some of them have dealt with photo editing in PS.
Y'all have made me happy and sad! There is hope for the old images. I just don't think I can wrap my head around PS (and all I have is a very old version somewhere--not on current computer). Congrats to you and @taffy for awesome before/afters
Works very well, I really must learn how to edit! My limit is changing colour, brightness or contrast LOL. Not much of a toolbox. I love what you did here.
Well done!