A Work in Progress: Fantasy



This guide was made for entry:
Fantasy
In Contest:
antarctic glacier


Original image


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Following a tutorial (http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut009.htm ), a glass ball was created and all layers were put into a folder. A selection was made and the selected area in the source was spherized.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 1

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Creation of Fantasy: Step 2

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The glass ball folder was duplicated and the copy size was decreased. Repeating the process in step 1, a selected area in the source was spherized.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 3

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One more copy of the glass ball folder was made. Same process to spherize.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 4

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Making selection of the three glass ball, one at a time, three layers were created via cut, one for each spherized area. Then three adjustment layers were created as to apply levels to the areas that were cut. It was made using masks on the adjustment layers.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 5

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Using a large soft brush, the highlights were applied.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 6

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A new copy of the source was made. An adjustment layer for photo filtre was create. Two more layers were created to apply the colours and blendings.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 7

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A new layer was created and a stroke with a large soft brush made the sun.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 8

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One more layer was created, filled with white and using noise and emboss filtre a texture was created to apply to the source image underneath. Hard light blending was applied.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 9

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On a new layer at the top, all layers were merged and equalized.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 10

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This layer was duplicated and equalized again. High Pass filtre and soft light blending were applied.

Creation of Fantasy: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Fantasy: Final Result

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