Pre-Blog Post #3

This image is a couple weeks old and was put together as a demo to my brother-in-law. While he is a PS guru in his own right, there are many roads to the final product in PS as those that are junkies already know.

The demo was to grab an image from Google Images and see what we could do with it in as little time as possible. It started with an image of a single F-18 Hornet flown by the US Navy Blue Angles and grew from there, here is the process. 

• Remove the plane from the background.
  
• Clone the number off the tail.
• Create background sky using the clouds filter.
• Add additional clouds using  very large hard circular brush and gaussian blur.
• Create multiple aircraft using duplicate layer (ControlCommand-J)
• Position aircraft for a diamond formation
• Create the 1-4 tail numbers
• Merge the numbers to the relative aircraft layers
• Expand canvas and turn background black
• Add mat-board trim lines using stroke (8 pt)
• Add frame and color copy from blue on the aircraft
• Add layer style drop shadow
• Add and trim frame highlight
• Add Logo layer
• DONE

Enjoy... Doug