Fireworks Photo Montage effect (2)

Another improvement to this image is to brighten the area below Snowgirl's eyes. We will use the Dodge "Dodge" tool.
-Click and hold the blur (soft) tool to find the Dodge tool and select it.
The Dodge tool is the one that looks like a thick cardboard magnifying glass.
In the property inspector, make the following settings for the Dodge tool:
Brush Size-32
Edge-100
Shape-round
Range-midtones
Exposure-25

As suggested in the fireworks help, brighten an area with a series of mouse clicks instead of dragging the Dodge tool. This technique gives you more control over the results. If you have enough confidence in the Dodge tool, you can modify the settings and try other stroke types.
The final step before we mix the three images is to reduce the size of the snowgirl image. If the image is not selected, click it.
-Select Modify > Transform > Numeric Transform
-Select scale as 50%. Keep Scale Attributes and constrain proportions in a checked gesture
-Remove hidden background and Dome layers
-Move the head of Snowgirl ' s to the center of the dome, then hide the snowgirl image
To be grouped together
Although you may not think so, this will be the easiest chapter in the photo montage tutorial. This is because we can use a quick mask instead of a hand-painted part. If you haven't used a mask before, you'll be amazed at how simple it is.
-click on the dome image to select it
-Select Commands > Creative > Fade Image. Select a linear fade from left to right
-click on the Black + white mask thumbnail on the dome layer on the Level Panel to display the Mask padding bar

-Move the round handle to the right of the gradient adjuster and place it in the middle of the drawing
-Move the square handle of the gradient adjustment bar until the rightmost one-fourth of the dome image fades into the background image

Remove the Snowgirl layer from the hide. Before the snowgirl image should be quickly masked, we will soften the edges of the mask.
-click to select it on the snowgirl image
-click the Add Mask button on the button at the bottom of the layer panel
-Select the Brush tool in the tools panel
In the property Inspector:
-Select Mask To:grayscale
-Select Preserve Transparency check box
-Carefully remove the edges of the snowgirl photo
These minor adjustments around the image are not required. Once you have already done the edge of the image, click the Snowgirl layer on the Layers panel and select Modify > Flatten Selection.
To create the final snowgirl fade effect, we'll go back and use the quick mask again.
When the image is still selected.
-Select Commands > Creative > Fade image
-Add a radial quick mask, the radial mask is at the bottom of the dialog box to the left
-click the mask thumbnail on the snowgirl layer of the Level Panel
-Move the round handle on the gradient adjustment bar just to an imaginary point on the cheek of Snowgirl ' s.

-Adjust the square handle on the gradient adjustment bar until you are satisfied with the way the edge of the image is mixed into the dome image.
As a final improvement, move the snowgirl image so that her jaw and ears are placed on a line of wall bands lined with Windows. This reminds us of the well-known bust of the ancient Egyptian queen, Nefertiti.

Postscript:
To make the image displayed in the Open tutorial page more reasonable, I'm going to make it half the size. If you want to do this too ...
-Select Select > select All or press Shift + Select three layers in the layer panel
-Select Modify > Flatten Selection
-Next Select Modify > Transform > Numeric Transform. Scale to 60%
-Finally, select Modify > Canvas > Trim Canvas
Click the Add effect on the Property Inspector Button [+] and select Sharpen > Unsharp Mask. Use the following settings:

Sharpen amount:50. Pixel Radius 2.7 to 3.00. threshold:0.
The font I use in the image is Amazone BT size points. Optimizes the image by selecting File > Export Preview. Output settings, I use is:
Jpeg
Quality-80
Smoothing-none
Sharpen Color edges– selected
The file size is about 30K. If you set the smoothing to 1 or do not select Sharpen Color, the file may be smaller (end)