

For my first photo i took five pictures of my friend moving across the sign that is in front of the high school. I stood in place the whole time to make sure that the pictures could be realistically put into one of the pictures. I used a lot of different techniques to try and get the best quality of "marching ants". I used the quick mask mode to go around the edges and just refine them. Her hands were probably the hardest part to do, just because i wanted to make sure that they didn't look like claws. i had to brighten one of the pictures because she was under a heavy shadow, so i brightened up one of the layers to makes sure that she looked like she "fit in" with the others. I also put a slight shadow under one of the pictures to make her body blend in better with the background photo.
For my second picture i initially tried to do all five of the pictures i had taken of her slowly eating a taco, but it ended up looking cluttered and more like one big blobby shadow. I deleted a few layers and kept three of them. I changed the blending modes on two of the layers to make it look like her hand was fading away, which i personally really liked the effect of.