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A Work in Progress: Lady style riding
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This guide was made for entry:
Lady style riding
In Contest:
circ classic
Original image
step 1 of 16
Cut out horse
step 2 of 16
Cut out lady, place her on horse.
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step 3 of 16
Working on the horse layer, trying to remove unwanted color shades.
step 4 of 16
Changing the colour of her dress. I selected the lady, then
Deselected her head, and then used "replace color".
step 5 of 16
Applying the landscape background.
step 6 of 16
Blending in the castle. I did a rough cut out from original image,
I used a layer mask, and painted with a soft brush to blend in.
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step 7 of 16
Blending in the cherry tree and grass.
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step 8 of 16
Blend in distant tree.
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step 9 of 16
Changing the blues in the sky (basically I adjusted the blu curve in
a curves adjustment layer, and made it to a steep S-curve). Then I
made a red-to-grey gradient from the top right corner, and blended
it in with a brush.
Then I also changed the colour settings for the other layers. In
general I tried to lighten up the lady and horse, and darkening the
rest - and also adding warm color.
step 10 of 16
Making the lady and horse bigger.
step 11 of 16
Blending in the raven
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step 12 of 16
Reducing saturation on cherry tree layer and castle layer.
step 13 of 16
I used clone tool to make grass go streight to the right end.
step 14 of 16
Adding more shadows
step 15 of 16
Adding mist
step 16 of 16
Refining details
Final result
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