To begin this project, I first launched the Photoshop application on my Mac computer. Then, I downloaded the sample files from the Adobe tutorial article. After a bit of playing around on the computer, I figured out that the files were compiled into a zip folder in the downloads section of the Mac. I opened it to see the different layers and opened “landscape.jpg” into Photoshop. In order to add a sun on a different layer, I clicked the “create a new layer” button on the bottom of the panel. A layer titled “Layer 1” was added above the background layer. I double-clicked this layer to rename it “Sun”. To create the sun, I went to the tools panel on the left and held down on the rectangular dotted box to click on “Elliptical Marquee Tool”. I held the tool and pressed the shift key to create a circle in the middle of the screen. When the sun was to a size of my liking, I released the mouse button and shift key to hold the circle in place. Next, I chose to fill this area of the sun layer. I clicked “Edit” on the upper bar of the Mac, then “Fill”, then “Color” from the Contents Menu, then dragged the color slider to an orange area, then clicked “OK”, and “OK” again. Once I was finished with this step, I clicked “Select” from the top bar on the Mac and then “Deselect”. To move the sun, I selected the “Move Tool” from the tools panel and dragged the sun down a little bit to center it more in the picture. Next, I wanted to blend the sun into the layer beneath it, so I selected the “Sun” layer, chose “Multiple” from the blend mode menu, and adjusted the opacity to 80%. Next, I added another image to the design by clicking “File”, then “Open”, and then opened “sky.jpg” from the downloads folder. In order to see both images side by side, I selected “Window” in the top bar, “Arrange”, then “Tile All Vertically”. To then drag the sky image over the landscape image, I pressed and held the shift key as I dragged the sky image over, then released the mouse key to align the images together. I closed the sky only tab since I no longer needed that photograph. I renamed the new layer as “Sky” and dragged that layer below the “Sun” layer. Next, I double-clicked the “Background” layer to rename it as “Landscape”, then dragged the “Sky” layer under this layer. In order to show the sky in the image, I hid the sun and used a layer mask to hide just the top half of the landscape layer. I first made sure the landscape layer was selected, then chose the “Quick Selection Tool” in the tools panel. I then clicked and dragged across everything below where the mountains meet the sky in the image and added a layer mask from the bottom panel. As a result, the dramatic sky layer image was shown above the landscape grounds. To show the sun again, I clicked the small eye icon in the visibility column. Then, I selected the sun layer, clicked the “Create Layer Mask” button at the bottom of the layers panel to add a gradient to the sun layer mask to make it appear as if it was blending into the image below. To do this, I selected the “Gradient Tool” in the tools panel, clicked and held shift as I made a small line in the middle of the sun, going up to down. When I released the mouse and shift key, a fade in the sun was revealed. Moving on to adding text, I first selected the “Sun” layer and then the “Horizontal Type Tool” in the tools panel. I made the font size 72, typed “THE”, made the color of the text white in the top panel, and then changed the font of the text. After that, I changed the font size to 32 and moved “THE” to the center of the top of the sun. Next, I added a new text box and typed “GREAT AMERICAN WEST”, changing the font and font size to 62. I then selected the “Move Tool” and dragged this text box to be right below “THE”, around where the sun blends into the landscape. To add a shadow to the text, I selected the “Add a Layer Style” button at the bottom of the Layer’s panel, chose “Drop Shadow”, made the Blend Mode “Screen”, selected the color as white, made the distance amount 10px, the spread and size amount 0, selected “Stroke” from the left side column, made the size amount 6px and opacity 0%, and lastly saved these changes by pressing “OK”. I next wanted to add a vector graphic on my image. To start this, I clicked and held down the “Rectangle Tool” in the tools panel to select the “Custom Shape Tool”. In the options bar above, I selected the arrow next to the word “Shape” and chose a flower icon from the menu. To add this shape to the image, I clicked and held down on the image, dragging it to about the size I wanted the flower to be. I then made this shape white, placed it to the left of the word “GREAT”, copied and pasted it to make a duplicate using “Command C” and “Command V”, and placed this duplicate to the right of the word “WEST”. I then added a logo onto the top of the image by selecting “File”, “Place Linked”, choosing the providing desert logo, clicking “Place”, and selecting “OK” when prompted with more settings options. I then made this logo smaller and dragged it to the top of the image. Finally, once I was done editing my image I exported it and its original unedited version, saving it to my Mac desktop and OneDrive.