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A Work in Progress: The Last Tango...
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step 1 of 18
Cutted out the dancers using Pen tool.
step 2 of 18
made a copy of the layer and then on the top layer deleted the legs and other parts that will be replaced by fire.
step 3 of 18
lowered the opacity of the under layer and started assembling the fire parts from source nr 3.
step 4 of 18
More fire transforming, liquify , crop, clone...
step 5 of 18
Added a black background and continue on the arm and chest.
step 6 of 18
then opened a new sheet and crop the woman head. I wanted to behold the face lines. I first reduced saturation to 0 so i could get a b&w head.
step 7 of 18
Then used filter-stylize-find edges.
step 8 of 18
pasted fire source nr2 on to the head, so i could blend it together.
step 9 of 18
Then made the head layer be the top one, and used the blending mode - overlay.
then just merged the layers and cut out the fire face.
step 10 of 18
Assembled the head in the correct place.
step 11 of 18
Used fire source nr2 to create hair. Used liquify, and some crop and paste. at the end smudged the hair used original photoshop preset grass brush.
step 12 of 18
Cuted out the head of the man using pen tool. Now i'm going to work on it so it could be something like water.
step 13 of 18
Used same filter - stylize - find edges.
step 14 of 18
Deleted the black areas, so it would be only grey.
step 15 of 18
Placed the head on a suitable place.
step 16 of 18
Merged the layers and cut out the head. then placed it on the original place.
Then used water splash and pasted it on the whole image, and set the blending to Linear light.
step 17 of 18
Duplicated the layer and used Vivid light blend mode. also deleted the rest of the water around.
step 18 of 18
Some finishing touches, dodge, burn, delete here, delete there.. And finally added a reflection. finish
Final result
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