A Work in Progress: Stares



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Stares
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Original image


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I rotated the source image to a perspective that I liked.

Creation of Stares: Step 1

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I brought in the SXC image source.

Creation of Stares: Step 2

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Cut out and resized as needed.

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Here I cut out and rotated the right leg with the Transform tool.

Creation of Stares: Step 4

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Moved the left leg over a bit.

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I copied and pasted the left leg to a different layer and in the Transform tool rotated vertical and positioned under the aforementioned leg.

Creation of Stares: Step 6

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Reduced the opacity of leg reflection layer as so.

Creation of Stares: Step 7

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Selected just the legs without the shoes with the pen tool and made it a selection. CTL+J to put on a new layer. Added Guassian blur.

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This is a picture of Paducah, Texas I took when I went to visit my parents last Spring. The weather was nice and the air smelled like maneur but I digress.....

Creation of Stares: Step 9

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I begin erasing the previous image to ease the clouds into the the background.

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Erased the rest of the background to my liking and fixed the background clouds for the proper reflection in the building by copying and pasting, rotate, erase, etc.

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Final result

Creation of Stares: Final Result

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