Quickly painted a background using soft edged brushes and texture brush for foreground (All from Ps)
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Typed a large upper case "A" applied lens correction with horizontal distortion at max X3. Mirrored the "A" and darkened the back edges and left hand "A" slightly.
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Typed lines of "A"in the same colour as large "A", rasterized and transformed the lines to fit in large "A" structure. Applied layer effects, drop shadow.
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Typed an "l", rotated 90 degrees, typed a line of "A"s to fit within the "l", applied drop shadow and transformed to make the arches. Warped the whole tower to give curved edges.
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Used dodge and burn to add shadows.
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Typed a "J", flipped upside down, mirrored to make lamppost shape and applied bevel and emboss. Light bulbs were made by typing "0" and applying outer glow in layer styles.
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Added some buildings by typing "l" for main shape and "......" (Fullstops/periods) in white for windows
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More buildings added in the background, blurred and lightened. Lots of copying of layers.
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Added light on top, lightened the horizon and final saturation and curves adjustments.
great image. good explantion.
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