A Work in Progress: Take me there



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step 1 of 11

Make some shapes with the pen tool, copy paste and transform to build the stairs.

Make some wood texture using Filters > Render > Fibers.

Use the shapes as clipping masks and fill them with the texture.

Creation of Take me there: Step 1

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Continue making stairs

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And more

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Duplicate some shapes of the stairs and set the mode fro this layers to multiply to begin with the shadows.

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Copy and paste the tree to move it to a new position, clone the sky to hide the original

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With a new layer in multiply mode finish the shadows

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own photo

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Paste and mask, use a thin brush to mask the bottom part and blur a bit to make it blend better with the grass.

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Add the shadow for the hand too

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Make a Black & White adjustment layer to make the image black and white, customize the lightness of the colors and select a warm gray checking the tint box.
Increase the contrast to finish.

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Make a Black & White adjustment layer to make the image black and white, customize the lightness of the colors and select a warm gray checking the tint box.
Increase the contrast to finish.

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Final result

Creation of Take me there: Final Result

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