Entertaining the Grand Kids by Weezilou

Entertaining the Grand Kids

Is it any wonder that they don't want to leave?

This, for Mike Gifford's WWYD112
He asked us to explain the steps... I made both photos the same size, and in this case, I wanted to keep the surfer as a smaller image, like a child's toy.
In Photoshop, I chose: Select: Color range and highlighted all the white foam so I had the edges. I then used the lasso to enclose all the surfer & water in the foreground. . . cut and paste to the pool photo. There wasn't enough water for the pool area, so I patched in a few more pieces, compressed the layer and used the clone tool to blend the movement and coloration. I also selected a small strip of foam, rotated it a little and used it against the edges of the pool. This actually wasn't at all difficult, and http://365project.org/Weezilou/365/2014-06-12 was even easier, just using the select Color Range for all the white, copied and pasted it to the open sky under the existing cloud and did a little cloning to add cloud color to the waves, making the blend from foam to clouds. I have a lot of pictures of Ashton splashing and riding a boogie board in the pool... You can tell me to "Stop Already!" as I might tend to over do a good thing! (Thanks for reminding me to add this, Anita!)

This is also for Charlie's 100happydays because I'm close to ecstatic that I live in this day and age when the techno toys are *so much fun*!
Incredible shot. I'm not techie, so how'd you do this!!
June 12th, 2014  
@aglennc Thanks for asking! I recall that Mike asked us to explain the steps if we'd like. I'll do that in the caption for others to see...
June 12th, 2014  
Deb
This is such fun Louise! In college we had to do something like this so I took the photo from my junior prom and cut my date out (he wasn't a keeper) and upgraded him for a better model. It's fun but an eye opener that you can't always believe what you see. Excellent job!
June 12th, 2014  
what a fun project.
June 12th, 2014  
Cool
June 12th, 2014  
Great image - fun shot!!
June 12th, 2014  
Super!
June 12th, 2014  
LOL This is awesome! It is perfectly placed with his stare!
June 12th, 2014  
Ha ha ha ha!
June 13th, 2014  
Very clever Louise, instant fav.
June 13th, 2014  
Really well done, Louise! Fun creative shot!
June 13th, 2014  
Very creative. It should be very interesting to see what creations we will be seeing
June 13th, 2014  
Beautiful processed . You did a great, nice job . It makes a lovely and very funny pic.
Thank you for explaining the : Blue Dutch. Did n`t know them. I know in English there are many sayings about the dutch, `A dutch party` for example. = a party where every one pays his own bill. /take his own drinks with .( As the Dutch are know as to be miserly)
June 13th, 2014  
That is a fun idea and well executed.
June 17th, 2014  
You made the WWYD112 finals with this entry! Good luck!
June 19th, 2014  
This is great! I love it!
June 19th, 2014  
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