A Work in Progress: Fish bowl



This guide was made for entry:
Fish bowl
In Contest:
glass bowl


Original image


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My pic - my kitty named Mimi; she's looking at the water filling the big bucket...

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Source from Pxleyes.

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Added the original image for background.

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Copied and pasted a piece of a tulip petal; with liquify tool I gave the fish body shape.

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Another "copy-paste-liquify" and I did the back fin.

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With the same process I did the tail; for belly fin I duplicated and resized back fin.

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Using burn and dodge tools I did details on fins and tail.

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I worked more on belly fin with liquify tool; duplicated it twice, one copy for lateral fin. Also duplicated the tail.

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(I forgot to say I drew an eye on a new layer, applying bevel and emboss)
Duplicated the background and put it over all layers, lowering the opacity.

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Using rectangular marquee tool, I selected a horizontal stripe; filled with grey, applied burn tool and bevel and emboss.

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Using rectangular marquee tool again, I selected under the stripe and over the bowl shadow. On a new layer, I painted selected parts with light blue.

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I copied, pasted and masked my kitty image. Using burn tool, I did her shadow on "table" image.

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Final result

Creation of Fish bowl: Final Result

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