A Work in Progress: Happy family



This guide was made for entry:
Happy family
In Contest:
squirrel


Original image


step 1 of 9

Select squirrel and mask.

Creation of Happy family: Step 1

step 2 of 9

Clone & heal the squirrel. Select the chair and mask.
Select the mum and mask, place her in chair.

Creation of Happy family: Step 2

step 3 of 9

Duplicate squirrel head for mum and baby and scale.

Creation of Happy family: Step 3

step 4 of 9

Change chair/background. Much time was spent finding the right sources.

Creation of Happy family: Step 4

step 5 of 9

Select, mask, scale and place woman's hat, tophat and pipe.

Creation of Happy family: Step 5

step 6 of 9

Select, mask and place tail. Smudge edges to create fine hair.

Creation of Happy family: Step 6

step 7 of 9

Now for the fun part, yummy: use soft brush for shadows, soft brush for blush for mum and pinkish face for baby.
Paint eye for mum.

Creation of Happy family: Step 7

step 8 of 9

Flatten the image for lighting effects.
a Layer for the brighter and whiter light from lamp: use floodlight.
a Layer for the warm glow from fire: use spotlight with orange colour.
a Layer for fire : use directional lighting
Mask for best effect.

Creation of Happy family: Step 8

step 9 of 9

Use dodge for highlights.
Unsharp mask as top layer, mask those parts not wanted.

Creation of Happy family: Step 9

Final result

Creation of Happy family: Final Result

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