Silhouettes!!

The most Efficient Way to Hide your Mistakes are Silhouettes. I too used them as a way to hide my weak links when I was a Beginner. Some Of them are given below and they are very easy to make.

SAFARI

Ever been to a Safari??

Well If you haven't then you can make one of your own by just following the steps given below

Steps to create your own SAFARI are:

1. Select the pictures of animals that you want in your safari. Make sure they are in .png extension so as to make your work easy. Also ensure that they are looking sideways
2. Open Photoshop
3. Create a New Document(CTRL+N) of resolution 1024x768, this will be our Base document
4. Create a New Layer(SHIFT+CTRL+N)
5. Now taking Marquee Tool(M) make a selection on the lower side of document.
6. Press D to reset the colors to default colors
7. Press ALT+DEL OR ADD BLACK COLOR TO YOUR SELECTION
   
   
   
8. Now cut the pictures that you have selected in the first step and drag it to your Base document
9. If the pictures are in .png form then simply drag it to your Base document, looking like this
   
10. Once placed go to your Background Layer
11. Press G to activate the Gradient Tool
12. Take the Colors with the Given Value:
    FOREGROUND: #0084ff (Light Blue)
    BACKGROUND: #0064c2 (Darker version of the above one)
    To Apply Gradient CLICK ON THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER AND DRAG TILL NEARLY HALF OF THE SCREEN
    
    
     
13. The image should look somewhat like the above image
14. Now follow the below instructions
    FILTER>NOISE>ADD NOISE>AMOUNT(12.5%)>UNIFORM>MONOCHROMATIC
    
    
15. Now create a New Layer(CTRL+N) above the Background Layer
16. Now make a selection using Elliptical Marquee Tool(M>SHIFT+M)
17. Make sure the Color values are as follows
    FOREGROUND: #affff8 (Light Cyan)
    BACKGROUND: #ffffff (Pure White)
    
18. Now Follow the Below Instructions
    FILTER>RENDER>CLOUDS
    
19. We now have to add Outer Glow to our moon. For this Follow the below instructions
    LAYER>LAYER STYLE>OUTER GLOW> COLOR VALUE: 8efff5>SPREAD:5%>SIZE: 122 px>OPACITY: 75%> NOISE: 0%>CONTOUR>RANGE: 50%> JITTER: 0%>BLEND MODE: SCREEN
    
    
20. It will look somewhat like the above image
21. Now Press B to activate the BRUSH TOOL 
22. Right Click near the top of the Moon 
23. A DIALOGUE BOX will appear
24. Scroll Down until you find a thumbnail of Grass
25. There are two types of grass thumbnails
26. Apply Both of them to your Silhouette but ensure that the background and foreground both contain Pure Black(#000000) color
27. Apply the Grass Brush tool until satisfied
28. Image is Ready but make sure the placement of Layers should be like this
    BACKGROUND
    MOON
    ANIMAL IMAGES
    GRASS
    THE BASE OF BLACK COLOR
    
    
    
    
29. This was the night scene if you want to make a morning scene just Alter the Background as per the Below Requirements:
    USE GRADIENT TOOL WITH VALUES:
    FOREGROUND:#ffcc00
    BACKGROUND: #ffa200
    Click on the bottom left corner and drag till the center of the image
    ADD NOISE, THE VALUE SHOULD BE THE SAME AS THE ABOVE GIVEN VALUES
    FILTER>RENDER>LENSFLARE(BRIGHTNESS: 163%, LENS TYPE: 50-300mm ZOOM), Ensure the lensflare is near the edge of the feet of the elephant
    HIDE THE MOON SO AS TO REMOVE THE EFFECT OF NIGHT
    

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