A Work in Progress: The King's Kitchen

This guide was made for entry:
The King's Kitchen
In Contest:
elvis lives

step 1 of 14

Used the patch tool to delete the old menu writing.

step 2 of 14

Used the patch and clone tools to delete the old logo and artwork on the truck. Also made some selections, moved them into position and used transform and perspective tool.

step 3 of 14

Typeset the new sign, added a drop shadow to the larger type.

step 4 of 14

First gave the waiter a 'haircut', then extracted the Elvis impersonator from the neck up. Used match color first to adjust the skin tones.

step 5 of 14

Then used hue/saturation adjustments to get a little closer to the water's skin color.

step 6 of 14

Selected just his hair and made a hue/saturation adjustment. Then did a little dodge and burn in some areas.

step 7 of 14

Select several parts of the 'bling' from one of his outfits, and moved onto his shirt. Used transform to get them into size and position, then multiply blending mode to fade into his shirt.

step 8 of 14

Extract the sandwich, then flip vertical, matched size of thumb with the waiter's, then erased part of the sandwich and its thumb, and used the water's thumb.

step 9 of 14

Patch tool to get rid of the old guy in there, added the peanutbutter jar and bananas. Later moved these to the other side of the counter.

step 10 of 14

Added the crown from the ps custom shape tools, using the foreground color from previous use, then added layer styles so it would stand out.

step 11 of 14

Created the menu from a Handwriting font found at daFont, free. It is called King Cool - how perfect is that?! To get the menu items, I searched for 'peanutbutter and banana' and got those items. I jacked up the prices, 'cause Elvis needs the cash!

step 12 of 14

Added more jars, used a layer adjustment for brighness and contrast.

step 13 of 14

Added slight drop shadow to the truck's window frame.

step 14 of 14

To be honest, I tried several ways to give Elvis gray hair, and wasn't too thrilled with the first outcome posted. Found some pouffy gray hair, lost the glasses, and first warped the entire 'wig', then took just a selection and warped it by itself. In this closeup, you might see some age lines I had added.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
lchappell
gamemastertips
Disco
Score: 6.67

Comments

wazowski says:

@ Disco: it's your own opinion -which is your good right of course- I do wonder why this SBS got one star from you. It's well explained in word and image, a good example for others, imo.

(5 years and 3369 days ago)

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