A Work in Progress: Across the Great Divide ???



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Original image


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Crevasse photo by seriousfun at morguefile.com

Creation of Across the Great Divide ???: Step 1

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Snowboarder is lassoed to move.

Creation of Across the Great Divide ???: Step 2

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Snowboarder is moved onto background photo.

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Boarder is now chopped using eraser tool. Shadows and highlights will be added later since background has been changed from very dark to light.

Creation of Across the Great Divide ???: Step 4

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Some airbrushed snow is added using very low (7 - 10D%) pressure. It needs to be placed where board might have kicked up the surface, and also where it would fall over edge.

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Using edit/transform/rotate and scale tools, boarder is scaled and turned to look as if he is jumping over cravasse.

Creation of Across the Great Divide ???: Step 6

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A filter is used to add a motion blur to the snow. This is a -7 angle at a distance of 32

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A new layer is added with no color, as an overlay for more snow to be added.

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Motion blur added at -53% and 11% Distance

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CEP3.0 filter added at 35 to background layer only.

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Lens flare is added behind background layer to give greater feeling of light striking snow.

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Burn and dodge tools are used to make light on snowboarder agree with light falling on background.

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Final result

Creation of Across the Great Divide ???: Final Result

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