A Work in Progress: Finches' Corner

This guide was made for entry:
Finches' Corner
In Contest:
old homestead

Original image

step 1 of 14

My thistle picture, of course, for the finches that aren't there to snack yet. It will have a layer mask applied in the next frame so I can blend it with the background.

step 2 of 14

Thistles were added, then flipped to the other side

step 3 of 14

Use of the layer mask for blending.

step 4 of 14

I took portions of the original tree and flipped them, also cloning sky areas to extend the picture to the right

step 5 of 14

step 6 of 14

The farm implement was added (thanks Danie) and original background removed with the pen tool. There was also a bit of desaturation to fit the atmosphere.

step 7 of 14

The next three steps are my turkey photos

step 8 of 14

Turkey pic 2

step 9 of 14

3rd turkey pic. These were crossing the road near my home a couple of years ago.

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The three turkeys were placed & trimmed. The furthest one was desaturated somewhat because it was too intense.

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I added the car body(thanks Jeff Winkler). Some of the brightness was taken away from the car & farm implement by changing their color modes to LAB, selecting the "brightness" channel, then adjusting it with curves. Doing this adjusts the brightness without destroying the color, although I think I desaturated just a tad anyway.

step 12 of 14

I added this cool old house(too bad I had to cut half of it off), thanks to Swainboat on flicker. The right side of the tree had to be duplicated to put over the house, which was resized & placed over the crest of the hill to make the perspective work with the shack.

step 13 of 14

Finally were added the red-winged blackbird and the crow.(my next 2 pics)

crow

step 14 of 14

Red-winged blackbird pic.

Final result

Votes

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hereisanoop
Score: 8

Comments

hereisanoop says:

nice

(5 years and 3563 days ago)

Pxleyes

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