A Work in Progress: the old school way

This guide was made for entry:
the old school way
In Contest:
green energy

Original image

step 1 of 5

step 2 of 5

copied the left part of the sky to the right side of the image, adjusted brightness/contrast and exposure.

step 3 of 5

i added the windmills and the river from the other source

step 4 of 5

added the swan and tweaked vibrance, contrast and levels

step 5 of 5

further adjustments, added a new layer which i filled with black and set it to soft light (66%). copied the entire image, put some gaussian blur on that layer and set that layer to hard light (39%). i also added a thin border

Final result

Votes

user	voted
Akassa
xshadow
Score: 9

Comments

xshadow says:

good ideea

(5 years and 3785 days ago)

Pxleyes

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