About the Image(s)

I started with Shopping Center.jpg - taken with iPhone 15 Pro. For some reason the camera was all wrong with the exposure settings - others photos I took of the same area were much brighter and more saturated. Once I lightened and increased vibrance in PS. I do not recall doing anything else with that photo. (Unfortunately I did not save the pdf - so I do not recall exactly.)

Next I brought in an old photo from Hawaii, taken with an Olympus C3040Z ( f/2.8, 1/400 sec, 100 ISO) I thought that the rainbow and mountains added a magical feel for the background to the shopping center. I flipped the background horizontal so that the rainbow would not be hidden behind the foreground. I used a clipped layer to insert the background through the skylight openings of the whimsical structure in the foreground.

I used AI to continue the stone wall in the right side foreground of the picture (where there had been a tan brick surface.) I also used AI to replace the building at the end of the ramp with vegetation.

Finally, I brought in a photo of my grandson pulling a wagon behind him down a boardwalk to the beach. (iPhone 16 Pro.) I think that this was the missing element to give the composite a center of focus. I flipped the boy with the wagon horizontally to be mindful of the direction of sunlight. At this point, for the same reason, I darkened the handrail on the right side, and brightened it on the left side.