This is an experiment here. I had been intrigued with a lot of the things going on in scrapbooking with the use of digital media to create layouts. I was curious as to how the computer could possibly play a role in scenic stamping and photography. This is what I came up with for my first attempt. I fumbled my way through Photoshop in the entire process but it was kind of fun.
This scene/layout is a fusion of the stamped scene and photo below. I started out with these two elements that were similar in theme.

Twilight Mist

This is the source photograph. It's from a photo that I took while in Yosemite. My friend Chris and I headed out to Death Valley to do some hiking and drove back through Yosemite.

Adobe Photoshop was used to separate the rocks on the photo below from the background trees. The stamped scene was positioned in its place. The large foreground trees in the photograph needed to be extended to reach the top of the scene so they were digitally extended. The entire scene needed to be softened where harsh transitions between the stamped scene and photo took place. My solution was to digitally copy the cluster of leaves above the figures head and to replicate that element throughout the scene in varying sizes.
The final element was this cluster of rocks. The photo in the foreground looked awkward and I thought it would be better to sandwich it in between stamped elements. I glued real reindeer moss to the stamped rocks for a 3D element. I flipped the element over in Photoshop because I thought the rocks looked better angled the other way. Finally, I added what Photoshop calls a "Vignette" which darkened the perimeter of the scene.

Twilight Mist by Kevin Nakagawa, CA 2008