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A Work in Progress: Cold Summer Night
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This guide was made for entry:
Cold Summer Night
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rooftop
Original image
step 1 of 12
In this step I masked out the parts of the roof I no longer wanted in the image
step 2 of 12
Here I added the image of the town that I found on stock.Xchng
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step 3 of 12
In this step I color corrected the roof and the town images using color balance curves and brightness and contrast so the meshed well together.
step 4 of 12
I then added some stars to the image using a small hard brush.
step 5 of 12
I then added some more stars and used the difference clouds tool to give the stars some variation and make the sky look more realistic.
step 6 of 12
I placed the tree over top of an unwanted part of the image, I used this mainly for cover up.
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step 7 of 12
In this step I masked out parts of the tree image that I no longer wanted and also color corrected it to make it look as though it fit.
step 8 of 12
using difference clouds I added smoke to the chimneys.
step 9 of 12
This is a screen cap that shows the image of the town I used and that it was uploaded by "rolve". Thanks rolve!
step 10 of 12
This is a screen cap showing rolve's statement saying that anyone can use his photos.
step 11 of 12
this is a screencap with the image of the tree I used. It also shows that it was uploaded by "hirekatsu". Thanks hirekatsu!
step 12 of 12
this is a screen cap that shows the statement the anyone can use hirekatsu's photos as long as it is non-commercial.
Final result
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