First, the extract the castle. I left out some parts, to make it a little easier for myself later on.
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Duplicated some parts of the castle and flipped them vertically. Then used the clone stamp to merge.
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Used the crane to make the legs. At first, i tried to used them as they were, but noticed it looked better when they were curved.
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We need some power to move a castle. A steam machine comes in handy.
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The castle needed some extra details, so i added some pipes and the dome.
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To impress others with your castle, it helps to make some noice.
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Added an additional crane to make the image less static. Also started with the background.
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The decoration needed some shadows. Added this now.
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The colors needed to be matched. For this used a combination of adjustment layers and the color match function.
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The contrast of the castle walls was too strong. Duplicated the castle, inverted the new layer, set the opacity to a low value and merged it again with the original layers.
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Made the grass layer darker.
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Duplicated the castle to a new layer and applied the motion blurr filter. Moved the layer a little to the left and set the layer mode to multiply.