Anything is Possible

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A image manipulation using masking, brush, crop, shading, and lighting effects in Photoshop CS6. All images used in this piece are usable through permission from the creator.

I used the clouds in this image and set to the background image as the first layer.

For the second layer, I used a mask and pulled the images together with a gradient to blend the background layer to the second layer.

For this image, I used the same technique and masked out the surrounding areas besides the dirt road.

For this image, I only used the pillars and the staircase and edited out the upper portion of the staircase. I used a cloud brush for the lighting around the pillars and assigning two layers to adjust the brightness of the clouds to give the glowing effect.

As for the girl, I used an old photo of my daughter and re-sized the image/flipped horizontally so the light was in portion to the light around the pillars. For the rest of the image, and individual images, I used levels and hue/saturation techniques to get the right effect for the surrounding images.  My final step was the use infinite lighting with the lighting effects tool.