Last source was for flying dove, no room on entry page: http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/168687
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My own source photo of girl for on carpet.
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A piece of grass is removed from source with lasso tool and moved into canvas.
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Girl chopped, placed on carpet and books arranged, some trimmed to fit around her body. All are merged to the carpet then, so that it can be scaled to other sizes and flipped or rotated when needed.
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Here the castle scene and the sky and cloud photo are merged together so that they can be cloned to match each other.
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Girl and carpet are duplicated here and flipped for placement at bottom.
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Wedding cake is chopped and added at top using eraser (soft) and a soft brush tool to blend it into the clouds.
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Knights are added in the same way after chopping. After scaling to desired size, brush tools and eraser are used to blend into the clouds.
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Carousel horse is now chopped, added and merged into the clouds using same brush and eraser tools.
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Balloons and a few birds are placed to give more perspective to the piece.
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A final filter of dk brown lowered to 50% opacity is added.