Collage

For this collage I gathered various textures and patterns from around my home. The white of the clouds and the green grass are both blankets. I put a mask of a green skirt over the grass blanket for extra texture to create the underlying lines and wave like semblance. Gondor is a jewelry box and the figure riding toward it is an model of Gandalf and Pippin on horseback. The flowers surrounding the frame are all hair clips that I masked over with the textures and patterns I gathered. I also altered the brightness/contrast/saturation/vibrance/highlights and shadows for most of the objects I put into the collage. I used the clone stamp tool along the grass and clouds to blend together the areas of "rolling" clouds and grassy plains to make it more realistic. I altered the opacity on the flowers to have the petals show through the patterns. I also used the quick selection tool in order to grab all of the objects I used in the collage as well as the free transform to alter the shape.