Family Swim by jgpittenger

Family Swim

I've been trying to learn how to use photoshop and this is one of my first attempts at pulling figures from one photo and putting them in another. Please give me any suggestions that come to mind. It was pretty fun though frustrating at times
Depends what effect you were going for. It does look quite surreal but its a fun shot.
December 27th, 2011  
This is really cool. You need to to teach me I have been wanting to do this but just have not had a whole lot of time. Now with the holidays over maybe i will get to try something like this. Great job.
December 27th, 2011  
Hmm, the one on the yellow thing didn't quite make it. Nice going on the others though.
December 27th, 2011  
I'm impressed ... as my PhotoShop Elements 9 sits on my computer and now there is an Elements 10 - I still don't really know what I'm doing!!
December 27th, 2011  
@mamabec Curt says he'll teach us. Let's talk soon
December 27th, 2011  
@sabanford Are you thinking it's too big? Maybe I should have cut her off the yellow float?
December 27th, 2011  
@camisze I got a great book I'm slowly going through. I'll give you the name if you like
December 27th, 2011  
@fueast I was going for surreal...guess I got that!
December 27th, 2011  
Hahaa - fun shot!! You could just shrink the yellow float one a bit but I wouldn't bother - it's all a lot of fun! I tihnk you can alter the selection tool so that the edge is a bit fuzzy to get things to blend more but I can never remember how to do drag and drop anyway!
December 27th, 2011  
oh my goodness, everyone's having a fun time haha!
December 27th, 2011  
How fun!!! You did great! Did the magic extractor work?
December 28th, 2011  
great fun shot - I'm OK with the cut and drop but only on like shots - not yet mastered the blending techniques! love the idea of this tho!
December 28th, 2011  
Fun shot
December 28th, 2011  
Yes I would love to know the name of the book. That would be fun.
December 28th, 2011  
@camisze Photoshop elements 10: the missing manual by Barbara brundage
December 28th, 2011  
@twinsplusone Definitely took a bunch of tweaking
December 28th, 2011  
@jgpittenger Thank you Jane, I now have the book on my Kindle. Can't wait to start looking it over. :)
December 29th, 2011  
@camisze Don't you love the instant gratification of your kindle?
December 29th, 2011  
@jgpittenger Yes I bought my husband the new Fire this year. He really loves it. Thank you again for the tip on the book.
December 29th, 2011  
Looks like a fun process. I don't have photoshop but I like the effects.
December 29th, 2011  
Fun!!!!!
December 31st, 2011  
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