A Work in Progress: Bright Ideas

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

Original image

step 1 of 11

Removed the background from the bulb.

step 2 of 11

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

step 3 of 11

Created layer masks for all the bulbs.

step 4 of 11

The bulb layers all masked here.

step 5 of 11

Using blending options, created a coloured light bulb.

step 6 of 11

Three coloured light bulbs.

step 7 of 11

Eighteen coloured light bulbs!

step 8 of 11

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

step 9 of 11

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

step 10 of 11

Masked the cartons and darkened & blended the background.

step 11 of 11

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.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
Brunheroti
Score: 10

Comments

Brunheroti says:

Very Nice

(5 years and 3196 days ago)

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