Back of chair is chopped out, then duplicated to begin ladder.
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The tower is stretch vertically here using the edit/transform/scale tool.
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Here several duplications of chairback are 'stacked' then merged together (Layers/merge)
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Some color changes have been made to ladder (color/balance tool) and burn and dodge tools are used to give it a mottled look.
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A section of ivy is lassoed and moved into canvas to be chopped and duplicated and cloned to go up ladded and tower.
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Ivy has been added and merged to ladded here.
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Smudge tool is used to pull out vines from the ivy onto the bricks of the tower.
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A concrete planter is formed from a piece of the white background of source, then darkened with burn tool and noise added (filter/noise)
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Planter is filled with flowers and plants from on the chair, then darkened; smudge tool pulls out other 'dead' pieces down to the ground. Burn tool will further 'deaden' the plants.
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Finally, more leaves are cloned into area above the tower. A red/brown filter is added over the whole canvas at 12% after merging.