A Work in Progress: Up or Down?



This guide was made for entry:
Up or Down?
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optical illusions


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Own image

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Mask the sky, duplicate (ctrl+j) transform and replace (flip horizontal)

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Another source, own image

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Place on the background

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Duplicate flip and repeat

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Paste some parts to make the stair larger in the front

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And here comes the dummies (own photos too)

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LOL, this is the larger SBS I made

I used a cardboard box to figure how may look the shadows in the final picture.

Now place and mask the figures on the image

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After masking use Hue/Saturation (ctrl+u) to decrease the saturation of the figures and change a bit the Hue to give them another tone

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Now draw the shadows, use the original pictures to see how they should look

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Add some shadows under the main stair to make the other ones a bit more confusing.

Add some contrast to the final image to finish

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Final result

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