Photoshop Banjo

        I started by taking a photo of the banjo and transferring it onto the computer. The first tool I used  was the quick selection tool/ the magnetic lasso tool to select the neck and headstock of the banjo to then clone it and reproduce it a number of times altering its size and position using CTRL+T. I did this not only to use the clone stamp tool but to give the image some movement. Each neck was its own layer, but I was having a hard time placing the photo in the document again without making all my other changes permanent and having Photoshop not allow me to make more arrangements to stuff, and I got really frustrated and confused for a while, so I flattened the image and saved it. I then opened it with Photoshop anew. Once I did that I managed the levels of the photo to make it more vibrant and messed with the curves a little. I then placed the photo in the document once again and removed its background. The two little banjos on the left are each a separate layer. I added the arched text “Banjo Time” in a new layer also, and I was using the burn tool to create some shadows that needed to exist so that the little banjos didn’t look so flat. This is what I have so far, and I really hope I’m on the right track.. I kind of wished we had seen some examples of an expected final product so that we had an idea of what constitutes a good composition and what constitutes a bad one. This course is dense and 6 weeks is so little to swallow all this stuff up and do a good job. 

See you all tomorrow. Good luck.