Personality Self Portrait Album Cover

          The strongest area of my work is my blending without the layer mask. The reason for this is because I was able to mesh the picture of Haiti with the picture of Australia to create a beautiful rich background. The Australian beach and the Haitian skyline blended together well and the dancers appear to be blue people soaring effortlessly in a swindle of blue. The plays with the hues of blue really worked out. Also the piano doesn't look photoshopped because it has no definitive edges and is partially transparent letting the background color it. Also the blending of the quote with the picture of the couple is blended nicely with the famous sydney opera house was well put together. Overall, my blending was nicely done and some parts look natural. Though I did well with blending, I could improve on blending with a layer mask because it doesn't look all that natural when I incorporated it.So, next time I should try to focus on that and strive to be better. It was easy to move images to where I wanted them. It was also easy to color/ manipulate images and to zoom in. 
          Though this project was easy it was also time consuming and hard to see a final product. I had to just go with whatever came. It was difficult to quick select and erase excess white parts of the image without doing it for all of the pictures. It took a lot of time to take out all the white spots and at one point I gave up because I had other things to focus on. I used opacity to help the Grey's anatomy image go more into the picture as well as the surgery picture. I used inverse to make the surgery picture go with the sky. I used overly to blend the background of two different landscapes. I used quick select to select and the eraser to erase things I didn't want from the images. I used the layer mask to blend the images with the background. I used multiply to erase the white and blend Leo into the picture. I used difference to blend the piano with the background. I used noise and opacity on the multiply album cover so it could be unrecognizable. I demonstrated the objective by blending 13 images together and making sure there aren't any harsh edges. And I edited the images so that they're not completely recognizable. I also used several tools that I had previously learned about to make this image.
          If I were to do this project again I would focus on erasing  all the excess white parts and focus on fixing my blending. I would make the images blend into each other better so they could look more natural.