Creative Mondays 48 – The Floating Island

“What is Creative Mondays?

Monday’s are always a drag. The start of a new week, you have to go back to that routine of going to bed early/get up early. If (like me) you have to commute then you prepare for that long journey into work and that long journey back for the first time after a nice two day break.

So to kick off those lousy Mondays, I’m going to get my creative mind flowing in a positive way. Creative Mondays. A chance for me to show off something unfinished or finished that I’ve been working on throughout the previous week.”

Some of the photo manipulations I’ve seen whilst looking for inspiration online are truly amazing. There’s a wealth of talent out there and creating these worlds in Photoshop is great fun! I find this process is a great starting point for those that want to get to grips with Photoshop. You can use a variety of tools within the program to alter, blend or match the different elements you’d like to use in a composition.

When creating this piece all my photos came from the fantastic Stock.XCHNG site. I’ve seen a few tutorials where a floating island is used and I figured that would be a good a place to start as any. I’m thinking this could be a good starting point to try out a tutorial of this process. If you’d like to see something like that let me know in the comments!