The board was duplicated , overlapped, and merged here with some clone blending.
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I applied a cylindrical gradient layer to the board to round it, them duplicated.
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Transform>Distort to form the cone. Made an oval mask to airbrush the interior.
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Transform > Warp
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My background from the first part of this tutorial > http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureid=1792. Thanks again to them for the nice tut.
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Experimenting with Image> Adjustments>Hue & Saturation.
Didn't use this part of the stone & brick.
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This is the part of the stone I used for my plant texture.
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The light starting to go to then bubble brush.
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Checking out placement for the stone texture.
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I didn't save the fish construction steps. This is the start. The fins were done with pieces of the tail. The eye was done with a round marquee, and a series of select>modify>contract with brush fills. I also added a subtle plastic wrap effect to them. Dodge & mostly burn were used too.
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The final steps were a combination of warping and resizing fish, burning and adding blur where necessary. The red weeds were made from stretching a fish longways REALLY long, then warping & recoloring