A Work in Progress: Not So Civil



This guide was made for entry:
Not So Civil
In Contest:
misty forest


Original image


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My photo

Creation of Not So Civil: Step 1

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My own picture from a local civil war reenactment was roughly cut out and placed into the source to see if it may work in the scene.

Creation of Not So Civil: Step 2

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The troops are in the process of being trimmed and the barbed wire (left) is partially cloned away. I'm very careful not to leave repetitive patterns from clone stamping as they really take away from believability. My layers were also desaturated at this time.

Creation of Not So Civil: Step 3

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Troop areas were divided into two layers here so the ones in the rear could be softened and given a slight Gaussian blur to fade them into the mist.

Creation of Not So Civil: Step 4

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A higher grass-line was added in front of the soldiers here because their legs were too short with regard to the shortness of the source grass.

Creation of Not So Civil: Step 5

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I finally used hue/saturation to give the picture a sepia look because I wanted it to look like an old photo.

Creation of Not So Civil: Step 6

Final result

Creation of Not So Civil: Final Result

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Nice SBS

(5 years and 3235 days ago)