A Work in Progress: Bridge over troubled Waters



This guide was made for entry:
Bridge over troubled Waters
In Contest:
iguassu falls


Original image


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Duplicated Contestimage and fliped it horizontal into a bigger workingground ( 5000 x 3000 px )

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 1

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filled the middle part via copy and paste

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 2

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Painted some shadows in the middle part and smooted the grey ground with the blurtool and cloning

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 3

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In this step i colormatched the original Sky to the colors of the Contestimage , as seen in the image

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 4

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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.

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 5

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Removed the background from the bridge and erased unneeded parts

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 6

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copy and pasted bridge 3 times into image matched them together and centered it.
Colormatched bridge same way mentioned in Image 4

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 7

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Building Arches and Pillars from bridge resources via copy and paste and the good old eraser tool

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 8

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building up towers , same way as Pillars

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 9

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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.

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 10

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Painted some more shadows underneath the bridge , and did some details on the bridge in shadow with burn tool

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 11

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painted more fog , added some birds , resized them later.
Fog was blended in and blurred with Gaussian Blur , also corrected partially with eraser

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 12

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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.

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 13

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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.

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Step 14

Final result

Creation of Bridge over troubled Waters: Final Result

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