A Work in Progress: Follow the rainbow



This guide was made for entry:
Follow the rainbow
In Contest:
mountain road


Original image


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Town to replace mountains

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children

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clear cut the children

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car

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clear cut the car

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I masked off the Mountains, some fine tuning was done later.

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I inserted the town, on a layer below the supplied image. I have enhanced the colour of the sky and blurred it a little.

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Added the children on a new layer at the top.

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I added a shadow for the children below the previous layer. I did this by selecting the children, on a new layer I filled the outline with 50% grey set it to multiply, pulled it into shape and added some gaussian blur.

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I used a gradient to create the rainbow

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I deleted most of the gradient.

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I bent it into shape using free transform and warp

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Put the rainbow where I wanted it, reduced the size, blurred it and lowered the opacity.

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I added the car, flipped it horizontal to mach the light direction, lightened the shadow, I had copied the number plate before I flipped the car, now added that in place.

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some little tidy ups.

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Final result

Creation of Follow the rainbow: Final Result

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