Original image
step 1 of 17
black background...
step 2 of 17
placed one of my own images of clouds, masked out balloon area, changed hue and added light filter.
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original image of clouds before changes...
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added tree silouhettes to the bottom edges of image...."Tree Silhouette" brushes by ~xsy at deviantart.com
sources used for this step:- : source
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added birds from "Birds Flying Brushes" by *redheadstock aka Obsidian Dawn at deviantart.com
sources used for this step:- 1: source 1
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step 7 of 17
for the balloon - i cut an oval shape from the plaid fabric on the source image, and warped it, then set as my top layer on exclusion....
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I'd been working on ten ideas for this project, and ended up combining pieces from all - these are some gears I cut out of the gold ring of source.....merged, bloated using liquify, warped, and masked...used "Gears Vectors Brushes" by *redheadstock aka Obsidian Dawn at deviantart.com to mask gear shapes from source....
sources used for this step:- 3: source 3
step 9 of 17
these pieces were combined using different shapes and gears cut out of gold ring of source....i'll upload steps for making at end of sbs...
step 10 of 17
cut gold ring from source, distorted, used for base of balloon...
step 11 of 17
more pieces cut from gold ring of source, distorted, added to base (changed levels, too)
step 12 of 17
dark fill layer for base...
step 13 of 17
i merged this, but the pieces were again cut from gold ring of source, and the ends of propellers are from the wood of source....
step 14 of 17
grouped it all and merged, set above on overlay to brighten
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created fill layer, added light filter, placed over all layer on color dodge...
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propeller creation....
step 17 of 17
gears made using "Gears Vectors Brushes" by *redheadstock aka Obsidian Dawn at deviantart.com, used shapes to mask out geasr from source....
sources used for this step:- 4: source 4
Final result
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