PSE7 Collage #04--Suggestions Please!

[George Tyndall]

Young-Lady-Poses-in-the-River.jpg

in advance for your suggestions.

[Bob]

Suggestions:

1. Legs are three dimensional. Don't cut them off at the water line with a straight line. Curve the bottom of the legs downwards so that it looks like the legs are displacing the water.

2. Add a reflection of the model on the water. Make a copy of the model layer, flip vertically, align where the legs meet, mask off or erase the portion that isn't needed, and reduce opacity as desired.

Here's a quick example:

Young-Lady-Poses-in-the-River-example.jpg

[Steve Grisetti]

You may also want to adjust the saturation level of the model.

As with your other compositions, the model has so much higher contrast and richer color saturation than the background that she looks pasted onto it.

If you lower your saturation level just as bit, she'll blend more naturally with the rest of the picture.

But you're definitely getting better and better, George!