I actually had a very hard time with this portrait. Editing the individual images themselves was pretty straightforward, but they kept locking themselves and becoming part of the background so I couldn't move them or edit them separately afterwards. Even though the composition may be a little cluttered towards the bottom, I'm relatively pleased with how it turned out.
I worked a lot with hue saturation and transparency with this composition. I wanted to create a dreamlike image, since this is kind of like me reminiscing about my wedding day. I didn't want stark colors, so I toned each image down and reduced the saturation. The background is a picture I took at a garden. I liked the composition and the unusual walkway next to the water. After reducing the saturation of colors, I pasted on an image of my husband putting a wedding band on my finger. Originally, my other hand was present in the image, but it looked funny just floating in midair, so I erased the other hand, which overlapped the wedding finger hand. I then used the stamp tool to fill out the part of my arm that had been overlapped by my other hand. Then I added a full-length wedding photo of my husband and I and made it a little more transparent and slightly blurry. I also had to change the angle of the image so that we'd both be standing on the walkway. Lastly, I wanted to have myself actually looking back on that scene so I took two pictures of myself and uploaded them. I reduced the saturation of these as well, because their stark colors clashed with the subdued background. I also wanted to create a softer tone, so I used the color balance tool to put more yellow into the two images of myself. I reduced the transparency of the eraser tool and slowly wore away bits of each image to try and make them seamlessly flow into each other. I finished off the composition by using the smart select tool to select all the major images and then inverted the selection. I applied a motion blur to the background to put more focus on the main images.
