A Work in Progress: New Start



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Original image


step 1 of 4

Used Lasso tool to roughly crop a section of the background, copied it to a new layer, and free-transformed it to fit the frame size.

Creation of New Start: Step 1

step 2 of 4

Put the cropped layer on top of the source image. Then, created a layer mask on the cropped layer, and used a black-to-transparent gradient to blend the two backgrounds together.

Creation of New Start: Step 2

step 3 of 4

Cropped and added married couple on their own layer, scaled and blurred them to emulate the depth of field used in the source image. Then added a curved adjustment layer to bring up the lighting on the man's back to better match the lighting in the photo.

Creation of New Start: Step 3
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step 4 of 4

Used a soft brush to paint a shadow under them, dropped the opacity to about 40%. Then, cropped and added the butterfly, and added two shadows under it - a general shadow from its wings, and a more precise shadow under its body. That's it.

Creation of New Start: Step 4
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Final result

Creation of New Start: Final Result

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