The Ocean - by Victoria Hughes Upon the crest of a wave I see hidden memories held within. New ones created, from every bough on every ship, that travels bound for some new pasture. Such hope and yet such loss, is the ocean's promise. It's force men think can be tamed. Yet that is what the ocean wants you to believe. It can bite and snap, or it can be calm and cool. A million promises made, and broken upon it's shores. A billion memories made and broken, lying on it's floors. The ocean is nature's untamable force. To create the complete image, I first blended the images of the cloud-filled sky and the ocean together at the horizon line by clicking on the small box icon in the bottom right corner of Photoshop, using gradient tool and selecting the third gradient option, then lining up the sky and clouds to the horizon line, and slightly dragging up at the horizontal line. I then merged the layers. Then, I created the sunset shell in a separate page in Photoshop by using layer mask on the sunset and shell images and using the paint brush tool to erase away the excess image. I then selected it and moved it to the background (ocean) image. I then used the scale tool to make the shell the appropriate size. Again, I merged the layers. I used the quick select tool to select the birds and used the move tool to place them on the ocean image. I then adjusted the size of the birds and merged all of the layers together to create the final photo.
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