A Work in Progress: Breaking Free

This guide was made for entry:
Breaking Free
In Contest:
merry go round

Original image

step 1 of 9

I started by isolating the front horse and removing all shadows and the pole.

step 2 of 9

I duplicated it twice and hid one for later use. The other was then placed over the inside horse so that I could recreate it fully. I masked out areas that weren't required such as the reins and the section of tail behind the pole.

step 3 of 9

I then began the tedious task of recreating the background. I started with the buggy and the walls behind the horse.

step 4 of 9

I then put in the side rail on the buggy and put in some ground below the far horse behind the buggy.

step 5 of 9

I then finished painting the walls and also removed part of the post supporting the missing horse. I also redrew the blue pole.

step 6 of 9

I then transformed the pole (warped it) to make it look as if it had been bent.

step 7 of 9

I then placed the original horse out the front and made him 25% bigger.

step 8 of 9

Gave the front horse a drop shadow to ground him.

step 9 of 9

I then cropped the image to my liking and adjusted the lighting.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
Salex
Akassa
thomasms
k5683
Score: 10

Comments

thomasms says:

Awesome.

(5 years and 3751 days ago)

Pxleyes

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