A Work in Progress: butterfly mountain....



This guide was made for entry:
butterfly mountain....
In Contest:
snowy mountains


Original image


step 1 of 12

white background layer...

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 1

step 2 of 12

placed source image and masked out wing shape from mountains....

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 2

step 3 of 12

selected dark pixels from masked out shape and deleted....

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 3

step 4 of 12

placed my own image of clouds, which i distorted using flexify, then added light filters after changing hue/saturation....

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 4

step 5 of 12

my own image before distortion....

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 5

step 6 of 12

i changed the hue and saturation to the masked out wing area, and added luce light filter....

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 6

step 7 of 12

duplicated, added another light filter to change colors...layered over first...

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 7

step 8 of 12

cut out body of butterfly from Insects0004 at cgtextures.com: http://cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=18885&PHPSESSID=33dc56c2a1ca8b12c72d5cf361f7ed78

added antennae.....just drew a line, filled, and warped.

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 8
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step 9 of 12

duplicated wing layer again, added light filter, placed beneath others....

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 9

step 10 of 12

duplicated my cloud layer, pinched it in a little bit, then layered over everything....

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 10

step 11 of 12

grouped the butterfly parts, duplicated, transformed, duplicated those two, merged, duplicated again, and merged to create butterfly ring...

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 11

step 12 of 12

duplicated layer, added a radial zoom blur and placed underneath

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Step 12

Final result

Creation of butterfly mountain....: Final Result

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