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How it was done

Some important Photoshop assistance was needed with this image.

• The main landscape was virtually a straight shot, using a full-frame fish-eye lens to give the scene the curvature.
  
  

• The feather was photographed by being held against a blue sky. Nobody in their right mind would want to select a subject like that from a different colour background, if it could be avoided.

  If an image is going to be a cut-out and laid over another image containing a mixture of colours, then photographing the subject against a white will make it easier to cut-out and blend in.
  
  

• The fingers were erased and the stork of the feather extended a little.

• The feather was positioned on the sky and much of the surrounding blue also removed.

• The blending mode of the feather layer was changed to Lighten.
  As a result the two blues merged into each other quite well, but the blue of the sky and the blue around the feather were not exactly the same.

• An eyedropper marker was attached to the image, just outside the edge of the feather.
  The colour readings of the blue sky in the main image were noted.

• With the feather layer active, the Selective Color dialogue box was opened.
  Under Colors - Blues small adjustments were made to the sliders to give a perfect match between the two blues.

Here we see a finished picture.
Although the blue of the sky is different from the blues above, the blue around the feather can still merge in perfectly.

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