Siegfried and Roy decided to only use the Marquis from the finished photo and paste it into a larger, heavily modified Vegas Strip image, shown to the right. Upon closer inspection you will see that a number of other alterations were done to the marquis and the background it has been pasted into, which has many major modifications. Naturally, they were all under the direction of Roy, who is one of the world's greatest magicians. For more information on compositing images and photo montage effects please see Photoshop Tip 10 on Compositing Images - Photo Montage Techniques and Photoshop Tip 15 on Creatively Blending Layers. The finalized photograph above is actually a composite of seven different exposures because of the various light sources.
Detail shown above is of the base exposure scan, un-retouched.
After a great deal more retouching the marquis sign from the top photo was selected, copied and pasted into the heavily Photoshopped Las Vegas Strip photo above for the front cover of the upcoming Siegried and Roy 2001 calendar.