A Work in Progress: Roots

This guide was made for entry:
Roots
In Contest:
white rose

Original image

step 1 of 25

Masked the hand with pen too

step 2 of 25

moved the hand to a new PSD file size 2000x1500px.
rotat and scale the hand.
Image -adjustments - hue/saturation.

step 3 of 25

In new layer with brush tool . colored the dark part of the hand
then changed the layer mode to screen

step 4 of 25

more brushing and playing with layers

step 5 of 25

copied the bottom of the hand to make the hand longer, then used smudge and clone tool .

step 6 of 25

with the clone tool removed the rose parts.

step 7 of 25

The background
fill the background with #270314

step 8 of 25

new layer lighter color with soft brush

step 9 of 25

new layer, then Filter - Noise - add noise
layer mode - soft light
opacity:43%
fill:70%

step 10 of 25

new layer
Filter- Render- clouds
difference cloud
layer mode LinerBurn
opacity :53%
fill:44%

step 11 of 25

duplicate clouds layer
then changed the new layer mode to color dodge
opacity 100%. Fill:44%

step 12 of 25

duplicate the hand layer
then Edit- Transform- flip horizontal

step 13 of 25

masked bottom part from Straw bales source image
then rotate and changed the color

sources used for this step:

: source

step 14 of 25

didnt like the color so I changed by creating a new color mode layer

step 15 of 25

add the flower texture

sources used for this step:

1: source 1

step 16 of 25

new layer for coloring the flowers

step 17 of 25

adding shadows under the flower layer

step 18 of 25

adding shadows on the hands

step 19 of 25

used parts from the tulips contest source

sources used for this step:

2: source 2

step 20 of 25

sources used for this step:

3: source 3
4: source 4

step 21 of 25

sources used for this step:

5: source 5
6: source 6

step 22 of 25

made the roots with the smudge tool

step 23 of 25

a new layer for the light, white color soft brush

step 24 of 25

changed light layer mode to overlay
-made a new layer for the shandows
with same brush change color to blackthen draw the shadows at the buttom of the image change layer mode to multiply

step 25 of 25

Final result

Votes

user	voted
vinshine
dandesign05
erikuri
510SAM
weso
Darla
langstrum
Score: 9.71

Comments

510SAM says:

Amazing SBS.

(5 years and 3519 days ago)

vinshine says:

nice

(5 years and 3511 days ago)

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