The Unveiling, Voila! The Horse is Behind the Fence

     I was so excited to learn how to cut out an image for editing a picture, and to combine two pictures.  I used the pen tool to slowly click away at the horse to save it, and the erased the stall background.  The fence picture was put on another layer.  The horse was placed over the fence layer, adjusting the size and position to make it believable.  I used the cloning tool to get rid of the red and blue straps that were in front of the horse, which replaced it with his own color.  The grassy background had been manipulated to see if we could get rid of the cars, but it was only partially successful.  I used the burning tool to create the shadow under the horse.  I erased the horse where the fence was to bring the fence in front of the horse.  I also erased parts of the hoofs to place dried leaves in front of the hoofs.
     Looking at this picture, I was happy, but I knew there was plenty of work to be done, it was not finished.  The first thing that I noticed about my horse is that he was teetering on two legs, (to myself, "will anyone else notice??")  I was not sure how he was positioned in the stall and it was all dark brown when I cut away.  It wasn't until days later, when looking at the horse picture that I noticed there was a third leg showing in the back.  I was also not happy with the background at all; it was a dreary day, the bare trees, the telephone poles, the cars, it all had to go!  But how?  I kept thinking all week what I should do, and then the light bulb went off:  pictures from Woodstock!!  That would be the perfect background!  I went digging through pictures, and I will show you tomorrow which picture I used, how I came by this picture and why I chose it.