this is for sally's composite challenge. i so love sally's @salza and clare's @pistache miniature composites -- the edges are seamless and they look so believable. i must admit i'm lazy to understand this photoshop thing as i tend to stick only to those few things i know. the rest of the functions remain a mystery to me, and no tutorials could get through my thick coconut.
this is a composite of five photographs; the main photo and the needle-holding self portrait were taken yesterday. the sitting self-portrait was taken at the beginning of this month when i first attempted to do a composite which failed magnificently. the one on the right was taken in june.
this went through a gazillion trips from ribbet to pse11 (which i don't want to update because it is so easy to use) to psCC (a very intimidating program but i like the result of smoother edges when cleaning off layer remnants) then back again to ribbet (which i'm most comfortable using to post process the final composite). it took me the entire evening yesterday to do this and was ready to post it when at the last minute i just did the flamingo thing since it was friday anyway.
