A Work in Progress: Balance



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Balance
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train tracks


Original image


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i chopped the flowerpots

Creation of Balance: Step 1

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i duplicated the flowerpot, resized and transformed them and made the image

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chopped the pole and the hose

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to create the empty flowerpot, i chooped a peace it, transformed-wrap it, placed it behind the flowerpot layer and burned the bottom part.

then i transformed the hose and pole to make the water carrying pole

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chopped the dry grass

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i used smadge tool - strengh 80-100%
i duplicated every layer about two times and placed them to create the field

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i used to more brushes to create another grass layer and placed it behind the grass

for the brushes i sampled the original grass colors (darkest and brightest) did shape dynamics, scattering and color dynamics

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duplicated the flowerpots again, resized them and placed them behind to make the mountains

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i used adjustment layers to make the far away mountains more bright and closer dark

the i merged the mountains into one layer and blured it

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used clouds brush to make two clouds layers

first one behind the mountains and second one infront

did a fog layer - render clouds, then screen mode, and exposed part of it with a mask behind the image

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duplicated the flowerpots again to make the water jugs

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to make the water i chopped a part of the original image again

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first i used filter - sketch chrome, then i transformed it perspectively to create depth, finally i used color and hue adjustment and masked it to feet the water jugs

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i strengthen the shadows on the image and jugs

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to create a kind of paper texture, i made a render fibers layer, then selected the green chanell

from the selection i made a mask and set the layer to color burn (70% opacity)

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merged the layers to a top new one, set it to overlay and did highpass filter (70% opacity)

finally, added color balance adjustment

thats the final image

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another variation

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Final result

Creation of Balance: Final Result

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