A Work in Progress: Robot fly! (updated)



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To make the background you will need 5 layers.
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black and white

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black and white

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first fill with white, then apply the filter

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this is to lighten the background

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1.crop the eye
2. with the elipse tool select part form the eye
3. copy and reflect the eye

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just crop some good part of it

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almost the same thing

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also, separating them a little more than there makes a better effect

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also note that it makes a little finger the hand. and to make that things look more solid you can copy the part of the image then put it as soft light and reduce the opacity

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Just continue doing the same things, deleting the parts you dont like,

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also look step 16. you can use any of both

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to make a smooth blend i use warp and eraser with around 40-60 opacity depending on the objects (here i used arounc 58%

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i erased some parts but like really small parts

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also you can look step16

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any part helps

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i deleted some parts to make the horns look better

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also to make the corners circular, make a better cropping

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thats the base. I just worked on blending object more with the eraser and warp tool.. also i used watermark

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after this i just added the background. also you can add another insect and put it as soft light and decrease its opacity or fill.

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Extra things.... this is just to add more taste. Also this goes between the image and the reflection. (the reflection goes behind both)

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also to make the gradient straight, use shift while doing it (90 degrees) also use black and white to make this so the reflection with the vector mask looks great

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here is an example of how you can modify the image.. i copied the fly bot and used accented edges on the copy.... put it as lighten and reduced its opacity.
thats all... any doubt or suggestions just message me =) i will reply as soon as possible

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Final result

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