ok the top image is the orginal photo, and we had to use Photoshop to render the image to photo realistic as much as we could. my file at the end of the project was approaching 100mb at 300 res for print size. i down sized the images but they are still a huge 300kb+ per image. If anyone cares i got a B+ overall in the class
if anyone has any questions or comments feel free to ask. oh by the way there was about 20 plus hours involed in making this.