A Work in Progress: World peace

This guide was made for entry:
World peace
In Contest:
magic shows

step 1 of 8

Making the background:
bottom layer: fill with dark grey, add lense correction filter (filter > distort > lens correction).
mid layer: add some colour dots, add very much gassian blur. Layer mode: overlay
top layer: render clouds, opacity 25 %, layer mode: overlay

the background I found inspiration for here:

sources used for this step:

: source

step 2 of 8

Creating a top hat:
Draw three parts: the hat body, the hat egde, and the hat opening. I've colorized them with different gradients using black

and grey. The hat opening also have some outer and inner glow (with grey colour).

step 3 of 8

Creating the table:
draw two elipses, add gradient overlay to the top. To make table foot, use pen tool and stroke the line. Add gradient

overlay to this too.

step 4 of 8

adding obama
This is my source:
I used pen tool to cut him out. Obama was lit from behind (as well as from the front), so I used burn tool to remove highlights from his back.

step 5 of 8

adding the pigeon
I used pen tool to cut out the pigeon, and gradients and a gradient map to correct the ligth.

step 6 of 8

adding the globe to the table
I put a globe on top of the table. Layer mode: overlay. I used curves to fade down highlights in the image.

step 7 of 8

adding shadows to pigeon, table and hat.

step 8 of 8

adding light beam and star burst

Final result

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