AffinityJules

Nice....looks good to my eyes.

The red smudge at the end of the sleeve is still there?

Ah...but you got the gist of it, that was my cryptic intent. 😀 Most, if not all, have at one time been referred to as Pete.

Christian names sound like partially decomposed plant matter.

All photo's sourced at Unsplash. Ancient pillars created using shapes and textures. Colour scheme courtesy of my brain.

Pink Floyd?

I still have that book after all these years, and yes, it does begin with a definite article.

Actually I was holding my thoughts to the UK but the answer was just too elusive when staring at the displayed letters. Thankfully GaryP provided a clue and the answer immediately popped in there. Damn quizzes!! 🙃😀

Plop!! and the answer came. Thanks for the prompt, Gary.

blooming month?

Most were reasonably easy, although some needed a lot of digging out from memory. I got them all except one - the 'famous landmark' question has currently got me stumped.

Just for the fun of it. All photos courtesy of Unsplash.

Another quick, crude example. I haven't got the composite in front of me so layer manipulation is impossible, so my example here relies on approximation only. 1. Road desaturated. 2. Enhanced greenery. 3. Adjusted sign. 4. Reduced colour of rockery - if that's what that is? 5. Adjusted tree separately and brightened it slightly. Additional: there is a lot of fog at the bottom of the picture which made object recognition difficult...hence approximation.

In my eyes there's a bit of tweaking to be done here and there, but it's up to you whether you think they're good ideas or not. The sign could be a bit bolder with the green tint - try a curves adjustment and push up the green (I did that and it looked ok to me) then erase around the letters to bring them back to black. The greenery around the left house is orange, if that is how you want it to remain then no prob. You could try masking out the orange by degrees and slowly bring back the green to an acceptable level/balance. The winding road around the central structure could be desaturated a bit just to emphasize the fact that it is a road, this will also help draw the eye to the central part of the picture where all the interest is. Your colour scheme is all about green and orange, but right now orange is dominating the entire scene. Adjusting the sign, the trees, and the road, (carefully) will help with the overall balance I think? I'm still not keen on the top of the picture where Pennywise and ole turtle head is, but that is purely personal opinion/preference and is of no consequence here.

Good ole Jeff. I admired him greatly.

Now that is a huge improvement. Still needs some tweaking but it's a big step in the right direction. The boy on the left is still a little off colour-wise. One thing I would try (keeping with the orange and green theme) is to turn the Derry sign a dark shade of green to make it pop slightly. As it stands now it's getting a bit lost. When I say green, I mean be subtle - not bold. That only goes for sign, not the frame.

This technique may or may not be what you're looking for, but as can be seen by this example, the 2 figures are clearly visible against the backdrop. Try it out. edit: I wrote red in the text box, but it should have read orange.

It would be good if you now matched the skin tones of the left boy and the girl to the boy in the centre, their colour is off {again} - especially the girl's. The boy in the centre has a flesh tone that trends more towards an orange hue, the other 2 characters should also trend to the same hue. The left building is off when compared to the other 2, and as you want a orange and green colour scheme, I would suggest using a very dark orange on the buildings via a curves adjustment or something similar. The top of the picture with Pennywise and the Turtle might just as well not be there, you can't make out what they're meant to be - it's just an orange and green colour frenzy. Ultimately any decision is yours to make when it comes to colouring, but arriving at a pleasing balance will greatly improve the picture's appearance. The titles and fonts look ok, but it looks a little crowded down there.

Oh Kasper! You jester, you!

As can be seen by both of those examples, a colour palette has been chosen which, as a theme, gives the pictures a uniform, balanced look. The top picture has what looks like a subtle blue-violet palette which runs through the entire image, and the flesh tones have been equally matched but subtly. The bottom picture also uses the blue spectrum but has added red which stands out in stark contrast for dramatic effect. So. What colour scheme, if at all, do you want? There is no need for you to abide by these thematic rules, but you can see as plain as day that, by choosing a colour scheme you can produce a well balanced image which is pleasing to the eye. It's an easy thing to say, but not so easy to execute. I am certainly no professional - or indeed practised in making cover art, and most of the pictures I do are produced with equal amounts of inspiration and experimentation, but in all I try to stick to a colour scheme and trend all components toward it. Have a think about it and make a firm decision then stick to it.

In order for people/me to assist you or give advice on your composite, then it would help enormously if we knew what it is you're trying to do with the composite. Each time you change it dramatically confusion sets in and all focus is lost. You need to decide how you want the picture to look and build on that rather than keep changing it on a whim. I'm still not sure how you want it to look when complete? It's not for me to tell you how it should look - that's your choice entirely, but you need to give some kind of guidance so that people can be of real help to you.

That would have been useful to know from the outset.

You've completely changed it again. Why?

What a grand title for such a simple picture concept! All photo's sourced at Unsplash. Visualisation created using Affinity Photo.

Getting better but now the girl's colour is off when compared to the 2 boys. It looks like she's in a completely different scene. When making adjustments always check what effect it has had on the rest of the composite and adjust accordingly. Update: did a quick edit to show what I mean. I used the central boy as the colour model and shifted the colours toward it. Both left and right characters have been slightly modified.