Fantasy Landscape Hell! :-o

Ever the drama queen, I'm finding it almost impossible to create any fantasy landscape that I'm happy with.  I've tried so many things / themes and nothing is quite right, i feel that i'm just missing the mark every time.  I'm totally stuck!  Below are a some of my recent attempts which I shall discuss with Marie on Wednesday, hopefully by then i'll have had a flash of inspiration (another one) and have it sorted.  More likely i'll just cry :oD

Exhibit A!  using magnetic lasso, then copy and paste one side of high street on to woodland scene. I then used free transform to re-size and then pasted again and used free transform to invert horizontally and re-size for the other side.  I then used the blur tool to soften the edges before flattening the image and saving it as a jpeg.  I quite like this but think there's something missing ...... and I can't quite put my finger on it .....

Exhibit B!  Using magnetic lasso I cut and paste the cemetary scene on to the fab sky scene, then to cover up a random woman on a bench spoiling the picture I added the pub, using the same methods.  I then used the art history brush and the blur tool before flattening the image and saving it as a jpeg.  Now,  I love the cemetary and the sky but the pub makes it look all wrong, however, random woman on a bench also spoils the scene .......

Exhibit C!  I really like the multiply layer function and having used it previously (see much earlier post) decided to revert back to this in the hope of more success.  Basically it's the cemetary scene with a woodland scene, duplicate layers created, cemetary scene moved on to woodland scene and layers multiplied, I experimented with the opacity as it the image was quite dark towards the bottom third, this is set to 68%.  I then flattened the image and saved it as a jpeg.  I prefer this to the image before it but still not entirely happy!

Exhibit D!  Out of all the attempts this is my favourite and I think most successful (others may not agree)  I've used the woodland scene from the first image and a high street scene. After creating duplicate layers for both images, i've moved the woodland scene on to the high street scene.  Then, using the layer options to multiply and changed the opacity to 73%.  I love the trees on the buildings and the redness of the leaves on the street.  If this is a winner then I just need another 3 - fabulous!