Exploding carrots

In this assignment I learned so many things! The original picture was an image of three carrots, and in a separate file there was a picture of a dynamite. Our goal was to put the dynamite in between the carrots without letting people know that that dynamite wasn't actually there. The process didn't take too long, first I reduced the opacity (which is something new I learned) of the dynamite so I could see the edge of the carrots and erase with the eraser tool the extra part of the dynamite that was over the carrots. To make look perfect I needed to zoom in a lot! To make it look realistic I learned how to use the dodge and the burn tool, these two tools made it either brighter (dodge tool) or darker (burn tool)! So check out the result!