Adding the Camera Lens

At this point, I made the fan of leaves Smart Object visible again and repositioned it so that the center of the fan was close to being centered on the round part of the head (Figure 15.165). It was time to add the camera lens to the middle of the fan so I opened the photo of a 35mm camera, extracted the camera body from the lens using a Vector Mask, and then dragged it into position within the collage. To add a little accent to the lens, I chose Drop Shadow from the Layer Style pop-up menu the bottom of the Layers palette, set the Blend Mode to Screen and chose a cyan color (Figure 15.166).

Figure 15.165. Result of repositioning the fan of leaves.
Figure 15.166. A camera lens was added, along with a Drop Shadow Layer ...

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