1. The first step, I found this image on flickr under the creative commons section: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bittermelon/3359944183/
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2. I then selected the magnetic lasso tool and selected the crowd of people
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3. I select the inverse.
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4. I drag this over to a new pallet.
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5. I then found this image on flickr under the creative commons section: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heypaul/2925135/
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6. I then select image/rotate/arbitrary and rotate 0.5 degrees clockwise to make the sign level.
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7. Using the rectangular marquee, I select the area with the letters I want to remove and use the pattern stamp tool to fill in the area for my own font.
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8. This is my finished result.
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9. I then find a font that is similar to play with.
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10. I change the opacity on each layer to 85% for a better blend.
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11. I then Rastersize the type so that I can give it a blur.
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12. I then add about 10x blur to the type.
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13. I found this image under the creative commons license: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3961720397/
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14. Using the polygonal lasso tool, I select the umbrella with the hand.
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15. I now have three layers to adjust to size using free transform.
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16. I found this image for the background on flickr under a creative commons license: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3961720397/
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17. I blur the background 50X to better match different resolutions.
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18. Using the burn tool, I darken areas that have the wrong light source.
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19. I use blur again on the umbrella layer to match resolution and adjust the brightness and contrast.
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20. I also adjust the brightness/contrast on the people in line layer because the resolution still did not quite match.
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21. I then adjust the color balance to match the background better to blend resolutions better.
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22. Finally, I go over areas of the different layers to blur more just to touch up and crop it to give more focus on momma with the umbrella.