So I decided to use 2 of my existing photos I just shot down the road from my house
This one is the one at the VFW of the Tank
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And the Second photo I took down from my house a guy has it out in the yard
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and since the fence was around the tank I decided to just do some masking of the tire areas and such till I had a full tank to add in to the source photo for a backdrop
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Doubled the background and flipped it around for larger area and added in the tank with a drop shadow for underneath a bit and some desaturated and touch up to the existent areas to blend in more with the backdrop
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used a bit of the clone proximity match and CTA to fix up the grass and other areas in the background area then just used some hue/sat and color adjustments for trying out different looks
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Ok so I then brought in my Scrap Metal guy to add to the other side and masked out the main picture to bring him in
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Just matched main color to the scrap guy to reflect the current matched color then just played with color and brightness etc till I got something I liked