A Work in Progress: Bright Ideas



This guide was made for entry:
Bright Ideas
In Contest:
light bulb


Original image


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Removed the background from the bulb.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 1

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Duplicated the bulb and positioned, scaled and sheared the bulb layers over each of the 18 eggs in the carton.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 2

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Created layer masks for all the bulbs.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 3

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The bulb layers all masked here.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 4

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Using blending options, created a coloured light bulb.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 5

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Three coloured light bulbs.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 6

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Eighteen coloured light bulbs!

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 7

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Increased canvas size and added the closed egg carton picture. This was colour matched and blended.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 8

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Added coloured bulbs to this as well in the same way.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 9

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Masked the cartons and darkened & blended the background.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 10

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Added coloured fall off from the bulbs to the cartons and the ground with a regular brush. A slight pattern was given to the ground using blending options. Depth of field was also simulated by creating a flat copy of the layers, masking this and then applying varying degrees of lens blur filter.

Creation of Bright Ideas: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Bright Ideas: Final Result

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avatar Brunheroti

Very Nice

(5 years and 3177 days ago)