This is a project for my first final back in High School for the first half of the school year, that took 3 days to make. For this project I had to create a scene of any sort in Photoshop, and use the skills I have learned in Photoshop. The purpose of this was to demonstrate that I understand how Photoshop works and know how to use Photoshop well. Also to show how well I have improved in using Photoshop, my skills in photoshop becoming more advanced, and being able to put things together in Photoshop well.
Process
I decided to use a beach as my main setting, and since I love beaches and how they are relaxing. I wanted to do a nice relaxing day at the beach scene, but I realized then, what if I were to do a chaotic day at the beach instead. I thought that would be an amazing and funny idea to create that instead, like make it more entertaining. It then my brain started flooding with ideas as to how I could create it and what images I should use. I first found a beach that I saw fit to use in my scene as the main setting. Then I decided how chaotic it should be and what chaos I should bring to this beautiful beach I have chosen. I settled on using 2 of my favorite fight scenes as I thought that would truly bring chaos to the beach. For the 2 fight scenes I used Megatron vs. Optimus Prime fight from transformers and Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah fight from Godzilla: King of the Monsters. I first looked up images for the transformers fight scene, I eventually found an image with the perfect angles of the 2 characters fighting, and they happened to be in the water so it was perfect. I imported the image to photoshop and began working on merging it into the beach image. I first used Pen Tool to make a selection around the characters to remove the background and then i masked my selection and used brush tool to touch it up. Once I was pleased with the results, I immediately started finding the perfect image of Godzilla fight King Ghidorah. I found the perfect image and did the same process as I did with the transformers image. I did however had to adjust the position of Godzilla by using the Free Transform tool and rotate him a bit until I was happy with the results. Once both images were merged into the beach then I used levels and curves to blend them in more to the beach image so it actually looks like they are at the beach fighting and beating each other up. Afterwards, I wanted a few more images like at least 3 more. So I added a cobra snake and Micheal Myers as well. I also added an image of my teacher sitting and placed him on a beach chair that I also added on the beach. Then once done with touching up, I decided to add some dialogue to my scene. I ended up with my teacher regretting going to the beach, since he thought it was going to be relaxing. And this really adds to the comedy of my scene. And I also gave Micheal Myers get dialogue as well just because I thought he should say something as well. Finally I used the Drop Shadow tool and gave my teacher and the transformers shadow as they are in the sun, so it will make more seem like they are actually on the beach and it gives it a more 3D effect.