Photo Manipulation is a fun, time consuming, and satisfying form of designing. For those who have no clue what it is, it's the art of taking stock photography images, then combining them to make one single picture with a message.
Some people use brushes, some don't. I personally hate using brushes in photo manipulation. It makes it seem uncreative to me. I haven't been doing this long, so this is only my second image I've done.
It's not complete yet. I'm about halfway done right now.
If you create these, feel free to post!
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This is about 15+ images combined into 1. So far it's about 2 hours worth of work. I still have loads of blending and more images/effects to add, but it's a start. Each piece of the image was created from scratch and stock photography.
Click link below to view image
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3331/wanderpj8.jpg---
**A lot of people asked me earlier how I got the fire effect from scratch. So here's how...
I found this picture using google
After pasting the picture into mine, I simply rotated it around to surround the Earth. After that, I erased sections I to create the edges you see. For that I used a soft eraser. Lastly I duplicated the fire layer, and set it to overlay to make it a bit more vibrant.
