For this project we made a digital collage out of images that we found on the internet and manipulated/put together in Adobe Photoshop.  The assignment called for two collages that relate to each other in some way.My idea came from a painting I did a few years back where a butterfly's wings were the image of a night sky.  The first collage is basically a digital version of that--and layer by layer I copied and pasted images of deep-space (mostly from NASA, I suppose) into the sections of a butterfly's wing.  The image I used had the butterfly perching on a flower, so I found an image of planet Earth as seen from space and pasted that over the flower and did some erasing to reveal the butterfly's legs.  And at some point during my internet searches, I found an image of the moon over the water that I simply had to use for the background, so I pasted that in behind the butterfly, than erased the original background for the butterfly. The background was green and left a green outline around the butterfly, so I used the brush tool at low opacity to give the butterfly an eerie green glow.
The second one was inspired by part of the background image in the upper right hand corner, which I found while searching for images of deep-space for the butterfly in the first collage.  It is an image of a nebula (a cloud of space-junk) that is shaped, in my opinion, like a bird spreading its wings, so at low opacity I placed a bird over the nebula in the image, which I put in the top right hand corner.  Because the bird was a seagull, I decided to make the main part of the image the ocean and pasted a wave I got from google on there, and then overlapped that with an orca whale and used the paintbrush tool to make the ocean spray.  And in the same way I pasted the bird over the nebula and reduced the opacity, I put some fish in the darker parts of the wave.