A Work in Progress: The Flying Dutch



This guide was made for entry:
The Flying Dutch
In Contest:
mini ship


Original image


step 1 of 13

1. made a black gradient
2. chopped the candle

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 1

step 2 of 13

3. added the texture and transformed it to make the table

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 2

step 3 of 13

4. added some shadow to the candle

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 3

step 4 of 13

5. chopped the ship,resized it and placed it were i wanted

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 4

step 5 of 13

6. did glowing edges filter, layer is set to screen mode

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 5

step 6 of 13

7. smoked the line with liquify filter

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 6

step 7 of 13

8. made a selection of the ship and painted the ship with smoke brushes.
each stroke was transformed to feet the boat lines on a separate layer, and then all layers merged.

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 7

step 8 of 13

8a. painted ship

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 8

step 9 of 13

10. added more smoke strokes with no selection. again each transformed on a separate layer.

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 9

step 10 of 13

11. added some smoke from the candle to the ship

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step 11 of 13

12b. some more smoke to make the waves.

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step 12 of 13

13. duplicated the ship layer and did motion blur, then gaussian blur and lowered the opacity.
14. transformed the waves smoke to look more wavy.

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 12

step 13 of 13

14. added b&w adjustment layer set to soft light to increase contrast.
15. added some color balance adjustment layers with mask to paint the candle and the smoke

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Step 13

Final result

Creation of The Flying Dutch: Final Result

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Comments

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Very inspiring work!

(5 years and 3111 days ago)
avatar EmiK
EmiK says:

Great SBS = )

(5 years and 3111 days ago)
avatar nilknarfsoive

great work...!

(5 years and 3062 days ago)