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

step 2 of 13

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

step 3 of 13

4. added some shadow to the candle

step 4 of 13

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

step 5 of 13

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

step 6 of 13

7. smoked the line with liquify filter

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.

step 8 of 13

8a. painted ship

step 9 of 13

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

step 10 of 13

11. added some smoke from the candle to the ship

step 11 of 13

12b. some more smoke to make the waves.

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.

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

Final result

Votes

user	voted
BWR
rbrum
ImmerVerloren
nanaris
gornats
Nator
Clinge
filantrop
Toothpick134
Toothpick134
nishagandhi
violscraper
dem90
lchappell
Score: 9.86

Comments

violscraper says:

Very inspiring work!

(5 years and 3257 days ago)

EmiK says:

Great SBS = )

(5 years and 3257 days ago)

nilknarfsoive says:

great work...!

(5 years and 3208 days ago)

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