Lab 3- Mask and image adjustment

         In this Lab, I had to take a normal picture of a beach and a dog and by using the proper masks I would be able to duplicated the dog and maintain the same background.I first started off with a picture of a normal dog called Lancelot,  I had to select the background using the quick selection tool and only the background, it wasn't a perfect selection but it worked for me. With this selection i made a destructive layer, by doing layer via cut, only by activating and de activating the red eye tool would I be able to see the dog and or the background. This layer could get the background by itself, I named it beach background, It was a layer besides the original background layer. Next was to select the dog, I did the best selection I could so that i could get the most of the dog. Next, I did layer via copy and copyed the image and named it,  background copy. Lastly for the 2 final layers I made a whole mask based on the background and made a copy of lancelot and moved it to the right, these layers were called whole mask and lancelot right. Personally, my final product does look nice, probably even professional, depending on the viewers opinion. Of course it needs improvement because if you look closely, the selection for the second dog can be seen, it is inevitable to notice such imperfection, but it can't be helped. I plan to improve it by maybe doing the selection for the second dog again since it could of been selected more carefully. I still like the piece though, it shows my skills are developiing and one day soon, I can do things I never thought were possible. Selecting a dog and making it look like it has a twin, with skills like these I could probably get far in the photography business, I'll never know until I try.