A Work in Progress: Water Lion

This guide was made for entry:
Water Lion
In Contest:
mixed manipulations 13

step 1 of 14

started with a gradient BG

step 2 of 14

chopped the lion

step 3 of 14

made a selection of the green channel and duplicated it to a new layer

then did chrome filter and set the layer to screen mode

duplicated that layer to strengthen the effect

step 4 of 14

used the water brush to create the lion mane

step 5 of 14

duplicated the water mane layer

step 6 of 14

used a soft white brush to fix the mane

step 7 of 14

used water splash brushes on the lion face

step 8 of 14

rotated and changed the size of the brush and wrapped the brush strokes according to the lion face

step 9 of 14

used a soft low opacity large white brush to make big white spots to strengthen the effect

step 10 of 14

merged all the layers to a new top one and set it to soft light mode

step 11 of 14

duplicated the chrome filter layer, moved it to the top and did base relief filter on it

layer on screen mode

step 12 of 14

merged all layers again to a new top one

did glowing edges filter and set the layer to soft light mode

step 13 of 14

created to more layers above the BG layer

in the first one, used a soft black big brush to darken some areas

second one, used a soft white brush to whiten the eyes, nose and mouth

step 14 of 14

created a color fill layer on top, set it to color mode, opacity 15% to give a bluish tone

Final result

Votes

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Score: 10

Comments

JamesP says:

Thanks for the SBS, I'm sure this will come in handy soon

(5 years and 3186 days ago)

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