A Work in Progress: Spring Celebration



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Original image


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Sign is chopped out of source, then scaled sideways, and then duplicated and merged together to create background.

Creation of Spring Celebration  : Step 1

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Background is color changed with hue/sat tool, then noise layer added as well as difference cloud filter.

Creation of Spring Celebration  : Step 2

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Section of the background design is cut out with lasso tool and shaped into a container using the filter/distort/spherize tool, then color changed. to a darker orange/brown to harmonize with background and to work with the flowers which will be in yellow and lavendar.

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Bottom portion of scene is sprayed with purple, container put in place, then strips of original source lassoed to be liquify warped into branch shapes.

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Here the pussy willow blossoms are made from the 'o' on the sign.

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Here the forsythia blossoms are created from the 'o' in the sign. The smudge tool pulls out the petals, then the eraser tool trims shapes of petals. Burn tool starts center shape of flower.

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Pussy Willows blossoms are placed on stems which have been placed 'in' the pot created.

Creation of Spring Celebration  : Step 7

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Forsythia blossoms are duplicated and grouped. These groups will be merged and then can be used at other places in the arrangement. Each blossom will be brightened/darkened using dodge/burn tools.

Creation of Spring Celebration  : Step 8

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Stars from the sign are duplicated and placed on the container, noise filter added to stars, contrast raised to give edges of stars a glow.

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One star is used to create lavendar flowers, scaled to a very small size, then added to a brushed stem/leavs. This first stem of flowers is merged, then is duplicated and added on a larger stem which will be used throughout the arrangement.

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Star flowers have been added, highlighting and shadows added, and now the background is reshaped at top corners using liquify warp tool. Then corners are burned to darker tones.

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A nosegay using flowers from arrangement, and tied with a bow (brushed in) are added at bottom and then a yellow filter is added after merging arrangement and container.

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Final result

Creation of Spring Celebration  : Final Result

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