A Work in Progress: Seeing Sound



This guide was made for entry:
Seeing Sound
In Contest:
piano player


Original image


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The first thing I did was make a path with the pen tool, and then create a selection using that path.

Creation of Seeing Sound: Step 1

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Then I added a gradient inside of that selection on a separate layer.

Creation of Seeing Sound: Step 2

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Then using the smudge tool a created the waves shape in the picture.

Creation of Seeing Sound: Step 3

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After the stock photo was brought into Photoshop, I copied the waves shape over to the picture. Then I duplicated the layer three times and changed the color of each shape with the Hue/Saturation palette.

Creation of Seeing Sound: Step 4

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Using the Free Transform tool and the Perspective Transform tool I positioned the shapes where I wanted. After in position I used a soft eraser tool to make the fingers more visible.

Creation of Seeing Sound: Step 5

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Then I applied a Cutout filter to each individual layer.

Creation of Seeing Sound: Step 6

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After merging all of the layers, I then applied a Poster Edges filter to the image.

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Using the Color Range selection, I selected all of the prominent colors and then copy and pasted them to their own layers.

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Then I went to the Blending Options of each layer and applied the same settings for each to give each layer more depth.

No outside sources were used.

Creation of Seeing Sound: Step 9

Final result

Creation of Seeing Sound: Final Result

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