Patrick Shindo's Collages

Photoshop image of space shuttle, racecar, lance armstrong, and cheetah racing on a salt flat.

I used the magnetic lasso tool and the magic eraser tool to isolate all of the subjects from their original backgrounds, and then used the move tool to bring them onto the background of the salt flat, and the free transform tool to size them. I then used the blur filter to give the appearance of motion and the drop shadow to give a 3D appearance. For the words I used the bevel and emboss feature and the drop shadow layer style.
Photoshop image of lunar surface with a man in space suit, superman, and marvin the martian.
The first thing I did with all of the images was paint their backgrounds white or black. Then I used the background eraser tool to make the original backgrounds dissappear.  I used the move tool to position them, and free transform to size them accordingly. Everything was beveled and embossed and has a drop shadow applied to it.