1) My first step in photography was to get myself a partner, then I got my camera, a chair, and a tripod. Once I grabbed what I needed me and my partner headed outside, we found a place where there was a clear background. After that, I placed my camera on the tripod and placed the chair where I would like my partner to be placed after I fix my camera and focused my lens. I took a picture of my partner on the chair and one of the backgrounds, for the fence picture I took a picture of the background and one of my partner. I took a total of six pictures including the backgrounds. Once I finished with the pictures I headed back to class and downloaded my pictures onto my drive. I proceeded to upload my first picture to Adobe Photoshop by going to the "file" and clicking on "scrips" and then on "load files into stack". I uploaded the background and where my partner is modeling. Then I applied a layer of the mask (the icon looks like a Japanese flag). The icon is located at the bottom right of the screen I'd made sure that before I liked the icon I was on the correct layer. I used the brush tool where I used the color black to conceal the chair and the shadow and white to reveal. Finally, I took a screenshot of my layers by holding down Command, shift, and 4 at the same time. Then I went to "File", clicked on "Save a copy", clicked on "On your computer", clicked on "Save on your computer", clicked on "Format", clicked on "JPEG", clicked on "save", and clicked on "Ok". And I proceeded to do this process for every picture I photoshopped.