Gavin Mannino

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1. Denis Villeneuve 2. Quentin Tarantino 3. Steven Spielberg 4. Michael Mann 5. Martin Scorsese 6. David Lynch 7. Stanley Kubrick 8. Alfred Hitchcock 9. The Coen Brothers 10. Damien Chazelle

                                     POSTCARD TO NOWHERE PROJECT BY GAVIN MANNINO STEPS 1.The foreground is from a separate image then the mountain range in the background. I used the selection tool and magic wand to add the ground and the cacti and bushes to sell the blend where the two composited photos meet near the lower 1/3 of the image. Not having a straight line helps blend the two into one. For the mountain range, I used the "Lighten" option in the blending mode drop down menu and used the "Divide" option for the foreground of the desert. I really loved the transparent look of the foreground and the "retro" aesthetic that the "Divide" option gave the postcard. 2. Next I added a UFO into the sky layer as a tribute to the famous 1947 Roswell New Mexico "UFO" crash. I used the "Pin Light" option for the blending mode to have the UFO "camouflage" into the background of ...