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Steps Used: (1) Duplicated background & applied a black/white linear gradient right side of image. (2) Made selection of 2 large signs on left/middle with feathered selection and filled with white to lighten them (3) selected the right large sign, sign below middle large sign & various other light areas & then flood filled with black to soften them a bit.

Steps Used: (1) Made selection of the baseball player & saved to alpha channel. (2) Loaded player from alpha channel and promoted to layer (3) On background layer adjusted color levels to give a faded look (4) Duplicated baseball player (promoted) layer & applied a motion blur at 120 & effect of 40 - erased areas not needed (5) Created upper text with multiply as blend mode, erased red from players head/cap. (6) Created bottom text layer, duplicated this layer - on the first bottom text layer used darken as the blend mode and on the duplicated layer used multiply as blend mode (I wanted the red to show through but not as intense - to have it still show through.

I'm not sure what I was thinking when I started out with using the coral reef and the hands in one image but I do like the effect it created, reminds me of the 60's to tell you the truth - here are the steps used: (1) Per lighting tutorial in week 1, I created a backdrop (lower portion of the image - sorta hard to see but it's there) (2) Selected the black background of the hands image, copied & pasted the hands on to corel reef image (3) Duplicated the hands image & on both layers used a blend mode of difference (4) Used the deformation tool on the hands

Steps Used: (1) Created new layer - on the new layer did a feather (25) selection & flood filled with white. (2) On the new layer then gave it a Gaussian blur of 10, repeated 6 times (total of 7). Selected Overlay as the blend mode.