Have fun with Halloween

You can find some very cool Halloween costumes at this time of year, and using Photoshop to combine them with backgrounds you may have in your files is a great way to have fun, engage kids in the creative process, and produce unique and compelling pictures.  A friend's daughter has this witch outfit, and I photographed her on the back deck of my home. I then used the quick selection tool (this hides beneath the magic wand tool in the tools palette) to select the costume from the original background.  I had photographed the foggy forest at dawn in the Italian countryside south of Venice and thought it would make the perfect backdrop.

I didn't use a filter for the landscape shot.  The blue color comes from the fact that when you shoot in deep shade, the subjects photograph blue when a daylight white balance is used.