A Work in Progress: Golden Gates



This guide was made for entry:
Golden Gates
In Contest:
mosaic


Original image


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Church of Mary I chose because it looked much better with the gold gate and fence.

Creation of Golden Gates: Step 1
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Building and landscape photo by Mzacha was used for foreground steps and trees.

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Color and balance and saturation are raised.

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Masking with eraser tool is completed here.

Creation of Golden Gates: Step 4

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First of gate and fence is put into place. It went from the pink color to gold by taking out the magenta, adding a lot of yellow, and working with color/balance and saturation until the gold color was achieved.

Creation of Golden Gates: Step 5

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Sections of gate and fence are added with (alt) key to duplicate them and scaled down to add to gates.

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Maller portions of design are duplicated here and added to fence sections. Some are reversed using the edit/transform/flip horizontal tool. When all are in, the 'merge down' tool is used to join parts together.

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Here I decided I didn't like the gold gate and fence with the building in my background photo, so I found one I liked better and added it in a layer over the other one, masking out much of its background.

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Finally, trees were merged together using the clone tool and foreground steps were darkened to give better background to the gate and fence.

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Final result

Creation of Golden Gates: Final Result

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