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This started out as another practice watercolor. I took the original photo at the zoo (I know zoos are necessary and the ones we have here have done a beautiful job of habitat and taking care of their animals, i just hate that we have destroyed so much of their environment that zoos are necessary to begin with)and I couldn't stand seeing the fence in the background. So I tried my hand at removing the background and putting something else in its place. Then I did the watercolor but just wasn't super happy with the way it turned out. So I played with a couple of other things and this is what I ended up with. Something like 8 layers and a couple of masks. I am pretty happy with it especially since I had no clue really, what I was doing lol. Just played til I got what I wanted, even though I didn't know what I wanted until I did it. (does that make any sense at all?)

Photoshop Elements 11 + my original photo

Description
This started out as another practice watercolor. I took the original photo at the zoo (I know zoos are necessary and the ones we have here have done a beautiful job of habitat and taking care of their animals, i just hate that we have destroyed so much of their environment that zoos are necessary to begin with)and I couldn't stand seeing the fence in the background. So I tried my hand at removing the background and putting something else in its place. Then I did the watercolor but just wasn't super happy with the way it turned out. So I played with a couple of other things and this is what I ended up with. Something like 8 layers and a couple of masks. I am pretty happy with it especially since I had no clue really, what I was doing lol. Just played til I got what I wanted, even though I didn't know what I wanted until I did it. (does that make any sense at all?)

Photoshop Elements 11 + my original photo