I've been doing a bit more with After Effects!  Although it isn't a perfect matting, I've still done something.  Anyway, here's my latest one: Klenda, Oob the Prime Minister and myself in Mongolia! Although the background was only a still picture because I couldn't find a video with a camera less than 300 feet off the ground, I was still able to add wind noises, remove the audio noise with Audacity (basically PhotoShop for audio), and create the effect of snow!  Next up will probably be Japan and India! 

So as it turns out, my college class which I thought was on photography alone has a lot to do with Photoshop as well.  And my first assignment was to take five selfies and Photoshop them.  The only problem is that unlike most teenagers, I actually dislike selfies.  That said, the fact that my teacher phrased them as "self portraits" made it a bit better.  None of the pictures from this assignment were taken on a smartphone.  I'll only show three for now.  This first picture doesn't look like a selfie--in fact, I hadn't originally intended it as one--, but the teacher approved it.  I mostly took a picture of a swimming pool roof and altered the colors, then took a zoom-in picture on one of one of the lights and arranged those in a pattern, faking the"overlap" of the lights in the middle by putting a mask over (making invisible) a part of one light.  The second one is more of a noticeable self-portrait.   I added the shadow manua...