A Work in Progress: Escape



This guide was made for entry:
Escape
In Contest:
chandelier


Original image


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Having a rough idea of what I would do, I masked out the pieces I wanted.

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Using one of the pieces I had masked out, I worked on the pattern.

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I converted the folder to smart object, raterized it and applied film grain to it.

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To another copy I applied paint daubs filtre.

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Then I applied multiply blending and saved the PSD file to use later.

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After having found the suitable images, I prepared them, saving the files to use later.

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In this source I left the shadows as it was since it would fit in my work.

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I started my work placing the patter I created and working on its perspective and height.

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I placed the chandelier, masked some flaws, made a copy and applied the mask.

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Then I placed the chain.

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I placed the cloth texture and changed its hue/saturation.

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Then I placed the clouds texture and applied hard light blending with 50% opacity.

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I placed the male model inside the chandelier, applying photo filtre and changing hue/saturation.

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Then I created the chandelier glass and reflections.

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Having put the chandelier and all the related layers into a folder, I made a copy of this folder, changing position and size and adding one more chain.

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Then I placed the lamp post, masked it out and changed its brightness/contrast.

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I added light to the lamp post.

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I placed the female model, changing colour balance and brightness/contrast. Using blur tool and eraser tool, I work on the original shadows, seeing that the light wasn't so strong.

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Then I created layers to work on shadows, but also used burn tool.

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I placed the tress texture between the clouds and the pattern (floor), and using mask, I blended the floor with the tree texture.

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I merged all the layers at the top, made a copy, dessaturated this copy, applied gaussian blur and soft light blending to it and 50% opacity.

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Finally I created a colour fill adjustment layer at the top and applied overlay blending with 70% opacity.

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Final result

Creation of Escape: Final Result

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