Guitar from morguefile.com by genieslot
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Two-headed dragon source photo by spygirl1978.
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Background source photo, I took in Virginia recently.
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Dragon is chopped and background all masked out using the eraser tool.
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The guitar is now chopped and background masked out using the eraser tools.
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Here I have chopped just the claws from a duplicate copy of the dragon. These can now be rotated, scaled, and fit over the guitar after it is placed in front of the dragon. I use edit/transform, then choose one of the transformation tools to get the size and shape I need.
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Here the claws have been fit over the guitar. The color of the dragon has also been changed using adjust/hue & saturation and color/balance tools.
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I enlarged the canvas size here, then made the addition magenta using the paint tool .
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I decided that the frame dragon is stepping out of should be dimensional, so using the paintbrush tool I added black on left edge and green on bottom edge.
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Here the edges of objects have been fine-tuned at higher resolution and work started on heads to give them a different look than the original source photo.
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The smoke brush was downloaded into my brush file, then chosen through the brush tool, asking for 'new' brush. There are so many, that you just have to try several, then finally settle on the one(s) that you like best.
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Here I've added a dino and pre-hist. bird into background and done a lot of up-close work on the heads with paintbrush and smudge tools.
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Source photo for dino and bird used in background. Photo was flipped using edit/transform/flip horizontal, then color adjusted with hue/saturation and color/balance tools.
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Here the heads are pretty well finished. Eyes have been brightened and additional appendages added to heads.
Final result
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