black background....
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step 2 of 16
placed image "Desert Sunset" by jonobate on Flickr.com.....
masked out mountainous area, stretched to fit.
masked out mountainous area, stretched to fit.
sources used for this step:- : source
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duplicated layer (after adding slight blur to first layer) and added a heavy gaussian blur, layered on overlay
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masked out mountains from "Landscape stock 66 mountains" by ~Finsternis-stock at deviantart.com....
sources used for this step:- 2: source 2
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original image "Landscape stock 66 mountains" by ~Finsternis-stock at deviantart.com
sources used for this step:- 3: source 3
step 7 of 16
duplicated mountain layer, added light filter on color dodge, layered on lowered opacity and darkened selected areas with a mask (brushing out the brighter areas on a low opacity brush...)
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maske dout skull from "Deer Skull 1" by ~markopolio-stock at deviantart.com....
increased red value, added inner shadow...
increased red value, added inner shadow...
sources used for this step:- 4: source 4
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original image "Deer Skull 1" by ~markopolio-stock at deviantart.com
sources used for this step:- 5: source 5
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duplicated mountain layer and masked to fit skull....layered over skull for rockier texture....
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duplicated skull layer again, added light filter, lowered opacity and again darkened bright areas with mask
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used "RockJagged0016 (Texture: #25545)" from cgtextures.com to add rocky background.... placed the image, duplicated and placed on the other side, merged, darkened levels, adjusted hue. and layered over black background on lowered opacity
sources used for this step:- 6: source 6
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original image "RockJagged0016 (Texture: #25545)" from cgtextures.com
sources used for this step:- 7: source 7
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added tree from "They Stand Alone by" *midnightstouch at deviantart.com
sources used for this step:- 8: source 8
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used some bird brushes by Obsidian Dawn at osidiandawn.com for ambience...
sources used for this step:- 9: source 9
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more bird brush....
Final result
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