Stock Shot Project

This is a super-imposed image using one of the fireworks photos from the blog on July 4th and a flag shot I have in my archives.  I removed the sky background from the original flag image and placed the flag over the fireworks, then massaged the whole thing in Photoshop.  To obtain the bleed-through of the fireworks in some parts of the flag I first made a duplicate layer of the flag.  I changed the bottom flag layer to "screen" mode, which allowed the fireworks to bleed completely through the flag.  Next I put a layer mask on the upper, "normal" flag layer and selectively painted out the areas where I wanted fireworks to show through.