road to zion- assignment 4

My inspiration was the song Road to Zion by Damian Marley and Nas. I used one picture for the background, one for the walls, one for the road, and then the picture of the old man. i started with the background then cut out the walls from a picture of an alleyway and adjusted their size to fit. Then i cut the road out of another picture and added it in, I had to change the size and stretch it to fit. i added shadows for the walls on the road using the paint brush tool. The old man was the hardest thing to add, i had to use the quick selection tool and the magic eraser and regular eraser to cut him out of the picture i found, then brought him over and put him in a spot that looked realistic. I copied the layer he was on then filled it in with black and flipped it upside down then rotated it to add the shadow.  I typed the words myself and staggered them so that it would look like it's going across the wall, then I used the horizontal distortion tool to make the writing get smaller further down the wall. The colors were an effect in the fonts. I also used the dodge tool to lighten the road and the top of the man's head and shoulders, and the blur tool to try to blend the walls in with the back ground.