To start with you need to select what photographs you are going to put together looking at what parts are in focus. You can keep track of the photos by starring them, you can do this by pressing command 5, this will give a five star rating.
The photos will then open in camera raw, select all the photos then press alt and open images will change to open copies so it will not change the original photo.
Then organise your photos in to what they are for, with your base photo being the main photo, this will be the one you will be adding layers too.
First of all I worked on the lid of the perfume bottle so drag the photo with the right lighting on the bottle onto the main photo. Then turn the opacity down and line up both the photos so they are seemless. Then add a mask to the photograph, and grab the white paint brush and paint over what you want to be seen.
Repeat these steps for the middle part of the goggles making sure to turn the opactiy back up once the two photos are lined up.
Then do this with the shadows putting photos on top of eachother being careful not to paint over too much of one.
And finally for the layering get rid of the ligt on the bottle to do this, you use the spot healing brush.
These are what the layers will look like when all completed.
Next is editing the line between the background and floor of the photograph, you do this using the spot healing brush and marquee tool.
Start by using the rectangular marquee tool to select where the line is, and create a new layer with that part of the photo.
Then move the part of the marquee down to get rid of the line.
Next use the mask and a white paint brush, to get rid of the overlay of the photo, to create a less messy line. You can also use the spot healing brush around the product to keep it clean.
Fianlly go to filter and select blur, and go to gaussian blur.
Slightly blur the line to make it less sharp and more natural.
Final Still Life Landscape:
Final Still Life Portrait:
