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More fun with Photoshop...

Last week, Ashlee, a friend from church, threw a 70's themed party/dance/fundraiser. We all got to dress up in 70's garb, have some good food, boogie and have an all around great time. Funds raised went to bring freedom to a Dalit woman in India. The Dalit are at the very bottom of the Indian social ladder. And just so you know, it's such a long ladder, they are not even considered people in the Indian system.

We decided to have everyone take a photo with a cutout of Austin Powers and then I had some fun in photoshop. There are many different ways of extracting people away from backgrounds. I tried out as many as I could find and figure out. Only advice I'll give here, is be patient when you first start.

We're doing another one of these in the Fall, so we're going to sell the photography to raise money for whatever charity then. What I'll be doing then, is create some backgrounds people can see and choose from and I'll shoot them in front of a sheet backdrop...I'm going to have a black sheet up and a white sheet up...that'll make it really easy to extract people later in photoshop. I might need a third sheet of some weird color, just in case someone comes in black and white :)

Anyway, just thought I'd show you something else done in photoshop. Sky's the limit.