I started my collage with these three images: a worm’s eye view of the Freedom Tower, the sky above the Philippines, and the sky above my hometown. I chose these three because of my love for the sky and my yearning for home.
I mostly played around with the blending mode of the layers, setting the sky above my hometown as a Hard Light layer and the sky above the Philippines as a Soft Light layer. I also lowered the opacity of the layers so the colors wouldn’t be as saturated.
As for the Freedom Tower layer, I initially wanted to use the Lasso Tool or the Magic Wand tool to get rid of the sky, but I struggled with both as they rely on the Tolerance level, and the colors of the buildings were too similar. As such, I decided to lower the opacity of the Freedom Tower layer and added a background layer with the color pink, to highlight the colors of the sky.
