A Work in Progress: The Time Machines Last Journey



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Original image


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Difference Clods with zoom blur. White Horizon drawn with pen tool & stroked with brush. White circle Painted using Marquee selection tool, and blurred. Area below horizon darkened with levels adjustment layer.

Creation of The Time Machines Last Journey: Step 1

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Motion Blur Applied to white horizon. Circle layer set to diffuse mode then zoom blur. Transformed circle to flatten. Outer glow on layer style. Crop image.

Creation of The Time Machines Last Journey: Step 2

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Warp pillars from original image. Transform to mirror image. Apply central decoration from original image.

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Take clocks from original image. Transform large clock face and remove numbers.

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Use texture from plaster on original image for area behind clocks.

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Texture edge with difference clouds (Sepperate layer with low opacity) to give mottled look. Burn to add shaddows.

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Bring time machine cockpit into main image.

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Use textured walls from original image on the ground. Hue Saturation/colourize to make red and apply unsharp mask. Dodge and burn to add further shaddows and highlights to time machine cockpit.

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Tone down the background. Draw cracks using pen tool and standard brushes. Paint whisps of smoke on a separate layer.

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Add each clock as a sepperate layer and apply drop shaddows.

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Add lens blur to clocks as they go towards the horizon. Dodge and burn to add shaddows and highlights to clocks. Copy and flip horizontal for clocks on the Left hand side.

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Final result

Creation of The Time Machines Last Journey: Final Result

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