During the creation of this project, cutting out all of my pictures worked quite well and so did duplicating each picture as well. The most challenging part of this project was trying to smudge/create motion and liquefying in my picture because sometimes I would smudge too much which would go into the other picture. This was a struggle. I used the smudge tool by clicking and  holding on to where I wanted to create motion and then dragging it to the distance I wanted and then releasing. I also used the gradient tool. I created my own contrast colors to what I wanted. I can use these techniques I have learned from this project in other school projects for other classes and also use it to help make posters for covers of programs or anything. Overall, this is project taught me very useful skills to know in Photoshop.