There are three basic images in this montage: the sky, the angel monument and breasts. Using the magic wand and eraser tool, the background of the angel image was removed, leaving just the angel figure. To make sure that parts of the angel image itself were not accidentally removed, I used the Tolerance control situated just below the drop down menu headings at the top of the photoshop window. The file of the sky was opened. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, a rectangle was drawn around the border of the angel image and this was copied in Edit/Copy. I then clicked on File/New and set the background to Transparent. I opened the new file and clicked on Edit/Paste and the angel image appeared in the new file. Using the Magic Wand tool I clicked on the background and Cntrl/X to delete it. I carefully went around the angel image to make sure that all unwanted background was removed, revealing the checkerboard transparent background. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, I dragged a box around the border of the Angel image and clicked on Edit/Copy. I clicked on the sky file and then clicked on Edit/Paste and the Angel appeared in a new layer over the sky background.
An image of a topless lady in roughly the same position as the angel was then opened. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, a box was drawn around the outer edge and using the same procedure as above, it was copied onto the angel. This was was then undone in Edit/Step Backward, and any adjustments to the size of the image were made in Image/Image Size. When I was happy with the size of the image, most of the image was erased leaving the breasts and an area surrounding them up to the neck and down to the stomach. Using the Erase Tool in combination with Brush Size and Opacity controls at the top of the Photoshop Window, the area around the breasts was vignetted out to produce a very soft edge with only the shape of the breasts defined. I then copied this image into a new file with a transparent background as described above. Using the magic wand, the background was erased to leave a transparent area surrounding the breasts. In Image/Mode, Greyscale was clicked on in the drop down menu, to turn this to a black and white image. In Image/Adjust, the Contrast was increased. This new image was in turn copied and pasted onto the Angel/Sky image, and using the Move tool, the breasts were placed in position. On the Layers Box, (the bottom box on the right hand side of the Photoshop Window), the opacity control was altered to about 45%. Any retouching was then carried out as required on the layer concerned, before the file was saved in File/Save As with a new name as a JPEG file.
