Mirrors Don’t Lie...The art work I have created is based on social issues that affect everyone in various ways. With my artwork I was trying to accomplish and explain a real life situation, now a days everyone is always complaining of the way they look, many people are never satisfied with their physical appearance. I decided to focus on physical appearance for this project because it seems to be a big issue that affects everyone but mainly teen girls, also because many girls feel like they are not accepted by society. So my artwork is showing a young lady looking at her self or imagining herself being bigger, however reality is she skinny and in good shape, but what she needs is confidence in her natural beauty.
In the desert tutorial we distorted the picture of the ground to make it more realistic and added a gradient with browns and yellow and some orange colors to make the ground pop out more. Also we made the sky look more real by adding the clouds with paintbrushes and adding another gradient with different shades of blues to make the sky look even better .finally we added two or one picture to the sky to give it a different view then to change it we played around with the opacity to enhanced the photo. With the light post we erased some of the bottom on the post so it wouldn’t look like we pasted it on there. We also added a shadow to the light post and it gave the photo a more realistic scenerio.These two practice tutorials are going to help me with the Surreal Project because I got more familiar with other Photoshop tools that will help me make my project better 
