My Original portrait:

I am demonstrating my response to Adam Goldberg.  The first thing I did was I chose a background and a portrait image of my choice.  On my portrait layer, I used the lasso tool to select the areas I desires.  After doing this, selected the inverse tool so that the other layer would be filled with the areas that aren’t white.  Then on the background layer, I selected edit, fill to merge the 2 layers.  From here I changed the opacity to adjust the strength .  I like this photograph because the cold/dark hues complement the darker tones of shadow on the object’s face.  This makes the viewer feel nervous as the cold, harsh and hostile techniques of the photograph are conveyed.

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