1) First I cut out the tractor from its background. I used pen tool, and it took me quite some time!
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2) I used pen tool to make a road path, and I filled the path with the asphalt pattern. I selected the road, contracted the selection, and used stroke to make the white stripes.
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3) Then I added the clouds, a couple of gradients, and the tractor.
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4)
Warping the road, blended it into the clouds.
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5) Adding contrast and shadow to tractor.
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6) Adding more stuff: seagull, pithcfork, tree, scarecrow, sign, barn, hay bales.
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7) More gradients to add mood.
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8) Adding stars to the sky (I filled the sky with black, added noise, gaussian blur, and changed layer mode to screen).
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9) In the end I added a texture and refined details (shadows mostly).