Photo Manipulation : Alien Queen Procedure
Sunset and Alien figure photos by Erik Pedersen
I started with these two images, a sunset picture (composite of two sunset images) I took in Odenton, Maryland and a shot of a 12 inch toy figure from the movie Aliens.
I used PhotoShop to isolate the alien figure from the background and made several layer copies. I applied a cutout filter to group the color zones and varied fill opacities to create translucent effects with the red sky background and voila, the Queen comes to Odenton.