Self Insertion


 I started off this assignment with a photo of my friend. Considering the background of the original photo, I wanted to go with something very earthy and "woodland creature"-like. After cutting the original photo of my friend out I placed it behind a root of the tree to look like she was peaking out from behind the root. I used the eraser tool to erase along the sides of the root so the image did not overlap. For the shadow and light, I used a mix between the burn and the dodge tool to darken the parts where it would be shadowy and lighten the parts where the sunlight would hit like how it hits on the tree.

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