Doodling

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Lots more Edit > Transform, here. Rotate, Distort, Scale, and Skew. You can use the Free Transform command to do them all at once, but I prefer doing one at a time. To distort in Free Transform, hold down Ctrl before pulling on a handle.
     There were lots of changes to Hue/Saturation to get the heavy shadow on the one side and bottom of the peach to move as the image was rotated. And not a very successful job as you can see.
     The shadow under the peach on the ground required a new layer via Copy of just the portion of the peach that was touching the ground. Otherwise, an added drop shadow would have appeared against the sky.
    Filter > Blur > Motion Blur was used with small settings on the moving peaches.
     I used the Smudge tool to streak the trailing edge of the moving peaches, and to push the corners of the mouth around. Funny, I’ve never had any use for the smudge tool, but it worked great for these uses (except for the peach that is bouncing up; that one looks lousy). This is what doodling is good for—finding new ways to do things, as well as things that don’t work out.		 next
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Displacing Textures 		Finally, all three peaches come to rest. They end up in a garden, where they hide under the thick plant growth.
     To get the peaches behind the leaves, I positioned them where I wanted them on top of the leaves, and then made a copy of the foliage layer. Dragging that new layer to be on top of all the rest in the Layers palette, I created a layer mask, choosing Reveal All. Editing the mask with black, blocked the leaves, and revealed the faces wherever I painted. To see where the faces were, I lowered the copied foliage layer’s opacity to 50 % while I was editing the mask. When I was finished, I returned its opacity to 100 %.
     I am purposely not telling you every detail of how to do this. The point of doodling is to try new things. Make mistakes, Especially, make mistakes. This is how you learn.
     Suppose the peaches had landed on an embankement, and rolled down a hill into a nearby creek. Would they float?
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