Collage Assignment?

These are the pictures i used. I dont know what the source is. I just pulled them out of the collage folder.

I started off by taking the trees and clearing the sky. It might be difficult to see but the next step makes it more obvious.

I inserted the landscape painting or drawing and inserted into the background. This mightve been unnecessary but i think it added substance to the composition.

I took the black/white drawing of the people and cleared out the surrounding white area to make it easy to insert.

I cropped out the trees and some of the grass that I wanted to show over the people and then I adjusted the hue/saturation and levels to make it more colorful. I think this makes the black/white drawing stand out more.

I dont even know what the assignments are anymore

I started off with a drawing of a robot; a Leo from Gundam Wing. I pulled it from google images.

before and after

I used the bucket tool to fill in the areas. This didn't produce the quality i wanted but it was so fast and easy that I stuck with it. Playing with some filters, specifically the "cutout" filter created a look I was satisfied with.

I inserted the robot into a picture of a street view that i also pulled off google. I cropped the areas that i wanted to have on top of the robot and then I played with the levels and curves to change the lighting. It was kind of rushed but since its inserting a drawing into a real life image, I think it's ok.

Retouching Assignment

This is the image I started off with by googling "Celebrities without makeup" and checking large images. It's a picture of Emma Watson that I randomly chose from the pool of images.

I picked the surface blur in the filters and then made a mask to selectively apply it. I played with the values until i found a result I liked which blurred out or removed anything that would be considered detrimental to her beauty.

I took a brush and played with the opacity until it was enough to hide some of the features but not outright remove them. This is the finished result because i could not think of anything else to do and I might have a messed up sense of beauty so I don't know what to fix.