Unit 03 Concept Visualization: Photo-montage

The photo-montage of Unit 03 was by far the most enjoyable part of the unit. It allowed me to explore more options and tools in Photoshop that I did not have much experience using. My photo-montage is set in the area west of Noyer. Before starting the montage, I first went out an took a photograph of Noyer, once I had uploaded the jpeg into Photoshop, I began the process of separating the building from other elements in the picture. This was a multistage process of cutting out different areas with the Polygon Lasso Tool, Magic Wand Tool, and Quick Select Tool. Once I had the building separated I placed it into an other Photoshop file which I had already created and had placed a desaturated sky picture. Next, I placed textures for the ground-planes into the composition. Using the perspective of Noyer as a guide, I use the Transform Tool to warp the ground-plane textures into the paths and grassy areas of the composition. 
Once these were in place, I began adding trees to the composition, scaling them and arranging them in an appropriate way. Next, I placed scale figures into the composition, again scaling and arranging them in an appropriate way. After this was complete, I began to add shadows to the trees and scale figures. This process included duplicating the layer, increasing the exposure, then lowering the opacity. Once this was complete, I used the Transform Tool to warp the shadow.