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A Work in Progress: Solar Butterfly
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This guide was made for entry:
Solar Butterfly
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sunflower seeds
Original image
step 1 of 15
starting background
step 2 of 15
adding some detail to the background
step 3 of 15
made planet by making a circle cut out of sunflower seeds, then blurred it and used hue and saturation, then did dodge and burn
step 4 of 15
used glowing edges on the sunflower
step 5 of 15
turned the sunflower into butterfly wings, using edit - transform - warp
step 6 of 15
made second set of wings
step 7 of 15
added body to butterfly
step 8 of 15
added a second sunflower to act like a flower the butterfly was hovering over
step 9 of 15
added legs and played with modes to get the look I wanted
step 10 of 15
made the planet from the sunflower, using this method. cut a circle out from the seed area
step 11 of 15
sized circle
step 12 of 15
used radial blur, and colored slightly
step 13 of 15
fiddled some more with color and modes
step 14 of 15
did shading and highlight on planet
step 15 of 15
planet done
Final result
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