Duplicated Contestimage and fliped it horizontal into a bigger workingground ( 5000 x 3000 px )
step 2 of 14
filled the middle part via copy and paste
step 3 of 14
Painted some shadows in the middle part and smooted the grey ground with the blurtool and cloning
step 4 of 14
In this step i colormatched the original Sky to the colors of the Contestimage , as seen in the image
step 5 of 14
Painted fogs blurred with gaussian blur.
Sky pasted into image and fliped vertical!! Used eraser with soft edge to get a smooth passing from sky to image.
step 6 of 14
Removed the background from the bridge and erased unneeded parts
step 7 of 14
copy and pasted bridge 3 times into image matched them together and centered it.
Colormatched bridge same way mentioned in Image 4
step 8 of 14
Building Arches and Pillars from bridge resources via copy and paste and the good old eraser tool
step 9 of 14
building up towers , same way as Pillars
step 10 of 14
For the Steps on the right and left side of the Bridge i copied a part of the Railing.
used distort to get it in the right perspective.
Copy and pasted some grass parts at the lower parts to match them to the ground.
step 11 of 14
Painted some more shadows underneath the bridge , and did some details on the bridge in shadow with burn tool
step 12 of 14
painted more fog , added some birds , resized them later.
Fog was blended in and blurred with Gaussian Blur , also corrected partially with eraser
step 13 of 14
added some watersplashes with brushes and one more birdlayer.
Painted some flags into it. Painted hanging moss under the bridge arches .
In this image sky has been duplicated one more time and been blended in with Multiply on 50%. Copied this layer a second time to give the sky more deepth and atmosphere.
step 14 of 14
merged the image, duplicated layer and colored it into a soft yellow. blended it in with Multiply on 25 %.
Made some small final corrections in the Image and added a Border via layer / stroke.
Finished -Thats it.