Editing process for Red man Walks

This is the original photo

Like all photos, when editing you should always duplicate the layer of the original photo 'background' to prevent compromising of the original file.

I decided that I wanted a midshot of the green man and wanted to crop the photo. To do this I used the Crop Tool (C).

This is the photo cropped.

I decided that I wanted to increase the colour of the green man and to do so, I had to select him and the surrounding green colour by using the selection tools, Quick Selection tool and Lasso Tool.

Once selected, I went to Image >Adjustments > Vibrance and set to increase the vibrance and saturation. As you can see, there is a visible difference compared to the original vibrance and saturation.

As I am going to use the selection later, in case I could lose it, I decided to right click and save the selection.

I wanted to paste another green man onto the top section of the crossing light sign so I copied the selection.

I pasted the selection and this is how it looks on the workspace and in my layers palette.

Moving the newly pasted object, I placed it on the other section of the traffic light. Here my layers palette shows the two green men.

Next, I wanted to combine the two green men into a selection so I saved the selection of the second green man.

After having both selections saved, right clicking the selection, going to Load Selection, I added my original selection to the current selection.

I wanted to select everything outside the green men, the background. To do this, I simply pressed Shift + Apple + I.

I wanted to give the background a little posterized effect so I went to Image > Adjustments > Posterize. I input a Posterization level of 12 as I still wanted the detail of a building top visible.

I wanted to desaturate the background by a little, to give an aged sort of look but not too ancient so I changed the value to -45 so there would still be visible colour.

I wanted to change the top green man to a red man and to do this, I went back to the selection of the green man, went to Hue/Saturation in Image Adjustments and changed the Hue to red.

And here is the final product.