A Work in Progress: Capture the Moon



This guide was made for entry:
Capture the Moon
In Contest:
the birdhouse


Original image


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Masked the image. I used a very sharp edge for the tower itself and a softer edge for the land at the base.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 1

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Next I made 3 copies of the masked layer. Then I used the warp tool on the bottom most layer.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 2

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I repeated this for the middle masked layer.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 3

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I then sandwiched a copy of the moon stock image between the previous two layers

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 4
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Then I turn on the top most copy of the masked tower layer and gave it a slight warp.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 5

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Then I made a space scape for the background. There are a lot of tutorials floating around out there on the web. I've included a link at the beginning to 31 different ones. Take your pick. For this one, I started with a black filled layer, copied it. Added 10% noise to the copy (Gaussian + Monochromatic). Duplicated this layer and changed the blend mode of the duplicated layer to Linear Dodge. On top of this, I used a large soft brush with a blue color to make the wispy clouds. The opacity and fill were set to about 20%and 30% respectively. For the brighter, sparkly star a used a lens flare on a black layer above all of this and set the blend mode to screen.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 6

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Duplicated the moon's layer and set the blend mode to multiply to darken it's mood a little. Then gave the towers in front of the moon some shadows.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 7

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It did not make sense to me for the two towers on either side to have windows on their sides. So I cloned them out.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 8

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A few more tweeks to the tower shadows.

Creation of Capture the Moon: Step 9

Final result

Creation of Capture the Moon: Final Result

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