A Work in Progress: Window to Spring



This guide was made for entry:
Window to Spring
In Contest:
spring landscape


Original image


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Bamboo source (my own photo)

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 1

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Pattern layer made from source spring photo. Filter with wave filter at amplitude of 35 and 540. this pattern layer will be added just before final gold filter at end.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 2

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A container for flowers is created with brush tool and source spring photo has been brought in to use in background. It is reduced in size, will be later resized when window is added.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 3

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Window is added and here center sections are being removed with eraser tool.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 4

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Using main source photo as reference, cherry blossoms are drawn here with brush tool.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 5

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Blossoms are now shaded with burn tool.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 6

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Details have been brushed into blossoms and leaves are created with brush tools, also. Veins are drawn in with the dodge tool at a very fine setting.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 7

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Blossoms are duplicated many times, some are sized to smaller sizes and used along upper bamboo sections. Some smaller ones are also added toward sides at bottom of arrangement. Dodge and burn tools will add shadows and highlights.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 8

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Here the heighth of the canvas was enlarged to open up the space for the window with spring scene. Both are scaled taller to fill in the space.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 9

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This shows that the pattern layer created in step 1 is laid over the purple layer. It is reduced in opacity to 21% so that purple shows through it.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 10

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Finally, a gold filter is added over the merged scene at 60% opacity.

Creation of Window to Spring: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Window to Spring: Final Result

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avatar friiskiwi
friiskiwi says:

Wonderful work

(5 years and 3207 days ago)