Combining images

I am conducting a Photoshop workshop today and tomorrow in my home, so I thought it would be appropriate to do a blog on the creative possibilities with this amazing program.  One of the most powerful ways of creating visually compelling imagery is to combine two or more photos into a composite.  This is one of things I stress in my workshop, and it truly opens the door to becoming an artist with your camera.  A case in point is the three-photo composite above.  This consists of (1) a mannequin head, (2) a 10-second exposure of an amusement park ride spinning at night, and (3) 'stars' that I made by sprinkling glitter on a piece of black velvet and shooting it with a star filter.  Once you know how to cut and paste images together, you can create pretty much anything you can imagine.  It's a great deal of fun.