• Picture 1: Heat Can Not Stop Me

    I always wondered what it’s like to be able to control fire. When I was younger, I used to love times where there was a black out at home. It would be the only time I was allowed near fire. My sister and I would always come up with illusions and tricks to play on a lighted candle without burning ourselves...

  • Picture 2: Fishes Are Friends

    Has anyone ever asked you that if you could be an animal, what animal would you want to be and why? It’s a broad question with no right or wrong answer. I used to want to be a puppy when I was a kid because it was so adorable but...

  • Picture 3: Even In Death

    Have you ever had a déjà vu? Where you do or experience something that you felt like you have already done or experienced before? Sometimes it makes you think to yourself “hey, I’ve dreamt of this before”. And in certain cases it makes you think “hey, I dreamt I thought to myself that I dreamt this happened before”. I just like to think that those are...

  • Picture 4: Back to Nature

    When I was a little girl, I loved nature. I used to play with insects and dig up earthworms and snails. I would spend my evenings laying on the grass and watching the clouds go by. My mom and I would watch the clouds and point out shapes of the clouds that make up...

  • Picture 5: My Ultimate Childhood Fantasy

    Being a typical girly-girl when I was a kid, I used to loved cartoons like My Little Pony and Care Bears. I always wanted a unicorn as a pet and I absolutely love rainbows and stars and in fact, I still do. I always wondered what it would be like to be in Care Bear’s town or...

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Swimming with the fishes!
A Little Blogging...
Has anyone ever asked you that if you could be an animal, what animal would you want to be and why? It’s a broad question with no right or wrong answer. I used to want to be a puppy when I was a kid because it was so adorable.

As I grew older, I often think back to this question and if I were to answer it again now, I would say I want to be a blue whale. I always think life underwater is peaceful and calm and it would be nice if I could live underwater and swim with the fishes. Blue whales are the largest mammals on earth and they are so calm and gentle. If you have ever gone snorkeling or scuba diving, being under water kind of clears your mind away from everything. All the sounds and voices are all so distant that it puts you in a calm mode. I’ve created this picture of a girl being able to swim with the fishes under the sea as it gives a feel of serenity and coolness like what it would be like being a whale.

Description
This picture aims to create a cool, underwater effect. This is created by giving a bluish tint to the image. I place the image of the girl being able to swim under the sea without any aid of an oxygen tank. I also included bubbles to make it look natural underwater. Fishes are seen swimming along with the girl hence the title Fishes Are Friends


Water Reflections 
How is it done?
The underwater background in my image is digitally generated in photoshop without using any images. This is how it is done


  1. Create a new canvas and fill it with the gradient tool from dark blue to darker blue. You can choose the tone of your choice.
  2. Create a new layer and go to Filter > Render > Clouds.
  3. Then go to Filter > Artistic > Plastic Wrap and apply these settings
  4. Before clicking OK, scroll down and click on Chrome and apply the settings and click OK.
  5. With the new layer selected, go to Edit > Transform > Skew and adjust the image as shown to give it some perspective.
  6. Choose the eraser tool and choose a round brush and set the hardness to 0%
  7. Erase the edge of the clouds to create depth
  8. Change the layers preference to Colour dodge
This will create the reflection of water. You can repeat the same steps for the bottom of the sea floor.


Photo Manipulated Foot

How is it done?
Oh, the beauty of photoshop. Nothing is impossible anymore. Here I changed a flexed foot to a pointed foot to make the girl look like she is floating/flying. This is how it is done

  1. Open the original photo and create a new copied layer of it
  2. hit Q to enter quick mask mode. Choose a hard brush with 100% hardness and paint the foot up to the ankle.
  3. When you're done, hit Q again to exit the quick mask mode. Now, a selection is created around the painted area earlier. press command + Shift + I to inverse the selection.
  4. Press Command + T to move the foot to the position you want.
  5. Hit enter to confirm the transform. The original foot will be at the bottom. Press Command + E to merge the layers
  6. Select the original layer and with the Patch tool, select the original leg
  7. Drag the selection to any area of the dried leaves. 
  8. If you have noticed, there are two ankles. Using the Patch tool, select the original ankle 
  9. Drag the selection to any area of the foot.
  10. Press Command + D to deselect.
Now you have the foot manipulated from flexed to pointed


Here are the original pictures i used to make the water scene