A Work in Progress: Guiding Angels



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Guiding Angels
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lamp post


Original image


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Parts of the images used.

Creation of Guiding Angels: Step 1

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Masked out the ship and the lamp

Creation of Guiding Angels: Step 2

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I duplicated the lamp and then played with the sizes and perspective and recreated the lamp. I also played with the ship and then put them together.

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I masked the angel standing next and positioned it in the image.

Creation of Guiding Angels: Step 4

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I did the same with the squatting angel.

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I simply added a section of the sky background.

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This is where the fun began.
I added a layer of black at low opacity to darken the image. I also used rendered clouds set at low opacity also. I then added a beam of light using some white which was heavily blurred.

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I copy merged the image and using lighting effects with a layer mask, added a spotlight effect.

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A few final touches by sharpening the image and some Hue/Saturation and the image was complete.

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Some adjustments were made after suggestions from Annabat's comment.

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Final result

Creation of Guiding Angels: Final Result

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