A Work in Progress: Cake and bread



This guide was made for entry:
Cake and bread
In Contest:
coconuts


Original image


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I cut out the most regular coconut and using mask I made some corrections.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 1

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I made a copy of the source image, streteched it to fit my canvas and applied radial blur to it and hue/saturation adjustment layer.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 2

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I made a copy of the coconut and increased its size.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 3

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CTRL-Clicked the big coconut and on a new layer underneath I created its shadow, filling the selection with black and applying gaussian blur.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 4

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Then I applied layer style to the big coconut.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 5

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I made a copy of the big coconut and its shadow and reduced their size, holding CTRL and SHIFT while reducing it as to keep the centres adjusted.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 6

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Same process for the next two coconuts. No changes were made to the layer style since its settings change as the object is changed.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 7

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The other three objects are just copies of the coconut and its shadow that I stretched and flipped and turned around.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 8

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I placed a texture above the background and applied hard lught blending to it.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 9

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All layers merged in a new layer at the top, I made a copy of it, equalized it and applied soft light blending to the copy with 50% opacity.

Creation of Cake and bread: Step 10

Final result

Creation of Cake and bread: Final Result

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