Homework Three

In order to create this duotone image I began with a stock photo of a house at the beginning of autumn. The image came from a program called Photo Explosion. This program has lots of good stock images, and I found one of a Mustang which I felt that I could incorporate into this image. It was easy enough to copy, since the Mustang image came on a blank white background. So I selected it using (basically) the quick selection tool, and then added it to the house picture. After playing with a number of different locations for the car, I decided that it would fit best in front of the house. I placed it there and then noticed that, looking through the windows of the car, I could see only the original white background. In order to fix that as best as I could, I used the clone stamp tool and used the siding of the house as a source, stamping that into the empty windows. It worked OK, but I felt that there must be a better way. After I have now learned a few more Photoshop tricks, I now know how I think I could have done that step better. Finally, after I had that portion of the image fixed, I converted it into a duotone image. I decided that since the picture was an autumn theme, that a brown tone might look good. After playing with the curve in a number of different spots, I came up with this color combination. Looks pretty good to me.