A bit of the editing process

So I'm at work right now and for the first time since I have worked here there is no one here. Its a shock, but so relaxing. I didn't bring my homework, so I can do whatever I want. So, I'm thinking about my digital media project. The advice, if I were trying to be a successful New York photographer, was that I was missing one big thing. I needed something to make people look at it and wonder. So, for the last day and a half I've been thinking about this big thing, a lot. In fact, probably more than I should. For example, I should be reading through the ESL books right now to work out something for tomorrow with my student, but I'm doing this.... Anyway, I've been thinking. I made it into two images, with a staircase in between and slight differences between the images, but it just didn't feel right. I've cropped it into a square, which seems like a good crop for it but it needs more. So I added a little thing with some tweaked out letters. But, I think that this addition might be a little too blatant. The letters are white on black, just so in your face. So, here is my new idea: letters with a high opacity, there but not really obvious, and under their feet. arranged in the same manner as they are now. So now I just have to figure out how to do this because I had to do a lot to arrange the letters in this particular manner. Hmmmph. I think I merged all the layers,... Hopefully I didn't/ If I didn't merge the layers, I can lasso out the image and cut/paste it to the bottom then change the coloring and opacity. If I merged the whole thing, life becomes slightly more complicated BUt I have the original image so I can always copy paste from that to fill in any wholes from cutting out the letters in my latest one. In fact, I think it is merged because I just opened it in light room and changed the coloring... but that is light room so it wouldn't read layers anyway. Hmmph. Will have to wait til I get home to figure it out... man I wish I had brought my computer to work!