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A Work in Progress: Balloon Pixie
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This guide was made for entry:
Balloon Pixie
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balloons
Original image
step 1 of 7
Use a selection tool to select various parts of the balloons in the shapes of petals or what have you.
step 2 of 7
Duplicate petals until you have as many as you need for your flower.
Use the Edit>Transform>Rotate and/or Warp and/or Scale to put your flower together.
Hide all layers including background layer, except for the layers of the flower that you're working on.
Select Layer>Merge Visible.
step 3 of 7
Repeat for each flower you intend on making.
step 4 of 7
Cut out the faerie and resize her.
Cut out the hair from the girl balloon.
step 5 of 7
Use Edit>Transform>Scale to make the hair selection fit the bottom of your image. Use Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation to make it green for the grass.
step 6 of 7
Fill the background with blue. Select Filter>Render>Clouds.
Select Filter>Blur>Radial Blur and place the center where you would like it.
step 7 of 7
Place flowers and faerie into image. Use a small star brush that comes with photoshop and place stars where ever you'd like on the faerie layer.
Layer>Drop Shadow and Bevel/Emboss to everything.
Layer>Outer Glow to Faerie. Increase Size of glow.
Add a Curves Layer and increase contrast.
Final result
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