A Work in Progress: Under the sea



This guide was made for entry:
Under the sea
In Contest:
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Original image


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Use bricks from source...

Creation of Under the sea: Step 1

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Open pattern maker - generate full sheet of pattern.

Creation of Under the sea: Step 2

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Add a Gaussian blur.

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Add a blue gradient...

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Using a "light beam brush"
add some light coming into water...

Brush:
http://www.obsidiandawn.com/light-beams-photoshop-gimp-brushes

THANKS "OBSIDIAN DAWN"

Creation of Under the sea: Step 5

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From source pic ,
warp - twirl...

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For the face...
Basically I warped the"ball" (top from source pic) into a face shape..and drew onto a separate layer.. then merged them and smudged to get final result.. added shadows/highlights using dodge and burn tool.

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For the body:
Warped that ball again into
1: Neck, smudged + added highlights/shadows to get result.
2: Body, same technique used to the body.

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For the jelly fish:
Warped the "ball" into jelly fish shape...then duplicate, twirl the ball to get the tentacles and add polar coordinates.
Copy/paste to create many...tentacles. ;)

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Final result...

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Start to add the jelly fish into the image...
duplicate twice..blur the other two jelly fish...
Add an outer glow to all three...

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Add the lady to the image..

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Add some highlights using the pen tool- stroke path...
Do this at various points where light is hitting...
then copy merged- duplicate image and add a soft light to top layer with 40% opacity..this will make the overall image more vibrant ...
walllaaaaaa...

Creation of Under the sea: Step 13

Final result

Creation of Under the sea: Final Result

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Comments

avatar hereisanoop

very good

(5 years and 3453 days ago)
avatar dollmommy
dollmommy says:

Great SBS......I could follow this easily...

(5 years and 3450 days ago)