When I first saw this man, I knew I wanted the basis of the product to have something to do with mountains. I didn't know exactly what that would look like, but I just googled a few different mountain backgrounds to see what would look best. I've always loved mountains and my dream is to live out in Colorado some day.
I started this project by adding the Matterhorn to his undershirt. It's a mountain with a thin peak so I knew it would fit in the small space. I used a layer mask to fit it inside the shirt, and then cut out the rest of the sky in the pic to leave just the peak. I messed around with a few adjustment layers and blending modes, but ended up pretty much leaving the picture the same as the original. The background was easy to put in, I just used the magic wand and created a mask for it. The glow around Jarod was tough for me to figure out, but in the end it wasn't too complicated. I made a layer with a mask behind the man and drew in the white with the brush tool. I then used layer adjustments and feathered it out a little. The hardest aspect of this pic was the shirt. I knew I wanted to use this picture of trees with snow on them, but I couldn't blend it correctly. I had to lower the opacity and I think it looks okay now, but it probably could be better.
The result turned out looking a lot better than I had anticipated!! It's very different from my original idea I had, but I really like it!
