Collage

This here is my collage, and in case you cant tell its an apple that has a strawberry inside falling into a pond! This was a fairly complicated project because i had to isolate the strawberry from its background also the apple from its background, next i brought them into the same document. After bringing them into the same document i then used layer masking and various blending filters to combine the two into one, but the tricky part was to get the slice to look correct, this took some more layer masks and even more blending along with the rotation of the berry image. After bringing those all together merged those layers, then brought them into the pond scene. now in the pond scene i had to create a reflection of the berry and i did this by copying the apple/berry layer then going into transform and flipping it vertically, i then added a gradiant to the reflection, then i went into image free transform and clicked "skew perspective" i then manipulated it to look like it was almost flat on the water. Then I put a drop shadow on the apple/berry that was falling, after doing that i had to add a motion blur onto both the reflection and the falling layers. On the Reflection layer i kew it had to be distorted and smaller than the one on the falling Apple/Berry due to the water. After everything here is the finished product! it is my firs manipulation of fruit and i feel with some more practice i could get fairly good at it, and when i say manipulating i mean putting one fruit into the other.