Assemble extracted pieces.
(Did not end up using the piece being warped here.)
Used the gear in Source 1 only as a shape to which I clipped the black and gray 'disc' from the Locomotive, seen on the lower front (right) of the finished piece.
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Start work on background.
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Levels adjustments to sky.
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Making the stars - see tutorial, I followed it fairly closely, but also added the noise and levels to the original color gradient part of the background.
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Matched the color of the gauges to the main circular part of the source image which I called the lens.
Painted in some smoke, dodged some areas of the 'ocean'. Final cleanup and tweaks.