My photo from Torquay. Then re-designed using Photoshop

I went to Torquay and sat down for a looked through this hole in the wall and saw a lovey view of the harbour. So I took a picture of the harbour to remember how lovey it was there. After I came back from Torquay I used Photoshop to make a wonderful piece of work, and this is how I did it:

 

I went into Photoshop, took the picture I wanted to use and clicked on ‘quick selection tool’ and selected the circle bit in the middle, right clicked on selected bit, clicked on ‘layer via cut’ – this separated the hole and harbour view so I could work on each part individually. 

I clicked on the layer I wanted to change, clicked on ‘filter’, then hovered the mouse over the arrow next to ‘stylize’ until it came up with the icon ‘glowing edges’, clicked on ‘glowing edges’, then clicked OK.  I did the same initial process for the background (i.e. wall part around the hole), but instead of clicking on ‘stylize’, I clicked on ‘texture’ and went to the icon ‘grain’, clicked OK. 

I am very pleased with the use of Photoshop to create this picture.  I liked the use of ‘glowing edges’ to further develop the harbour view and I like the grainy look of the background, i.e. the wall part around the hole.  My initial photograph was unusual, taking a photograph of Plymouth Harbour through a hole in a wall, but showing the outline of the hole.

I think my use of Photoshop reflects a sense of stillness and calm to the picture as if the use of ‘glowing edges’ sort of stops the busy feel of the harbour.