Screen shot for the search 'skuba diving'
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Fish and coral source photo
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Batfish source photo
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Fish source photo
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Coral and sea plants
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Water and many fish source
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First step is to take the resolution up to at least 120, then on a new, long canvas (10 x 25) all 4 source photos are inserted to be blended together.
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Here a closeup of the two top sources shows how shades of water are changed with hue/saturation tool until blues are close enough to start blending.They will then be merged and blended using the clone tool and soft brush.
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Here the blending has been completed.
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Now the bottom source photos are merged so that they can also be blended together, then the top and bottom sections will be merged also and blended.
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With merging of sources completed, Some anemone-like shapes are added at bottom left using the smudge tool, then Large fish is chopped and added.
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Smaller duplicates of the large fish are added after scaling them and cutting down the contrast for them as they go into the distance.
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Finally, layers are merged. I created a pattern layer from the water which was in the source photo of the Batfish, and put that over the entire picture then cut it to under 10%. A brown filter was also placed over the entire picture and cut to under 10%. a few bubbles were created coming from the close-up fish. In source there were actually no bubbles coming from fish at all, but I used the dodge tool to indicate just a few.
Final result
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