Background trees and fog source are liquify warped and trees at right cloned to widen image.
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An additional tree-like shape is brushed into left bottom of image and liquify warped also with smooth, elongated glowing strokes where face will be added.
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Old stone face is added here and some liquify warping has been done to face to blend it into tree shape just added.
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Further warping and blending have been done here on face and color/hue changes have been made to match color tones in rest of image.
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The tunnel source photo is added here and edges are being blended using the brush eraser tool at low setting.
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More work is done on foreground branches, and color/hue on bridge addition matches blues of rest of image.
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Flying lizards are added after chopping and scaling them.
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Fog is brushed into bridge and foreground with soft airbrush tool.
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A dark blue filter is added at 25% to complete the image.