A Work in Progress: Musical Chairs



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Original image


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Source photo of guitar player

Creation of Musical Chairs: Step 1

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source has been duplicated with each duplication being turned 1/4 using scale tool. These will be merged to cover canvas.

Creation of Musical Chairs: Step 2

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New merged image is now duplicated again to fill three quarters this time. Background layer is painted black.

Creation of Musical Chairs: Step 3

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Chair is chopped and added in the empty corner and will be sized to fit figure when it is added. It will also be flipped horizontally (edit/flip hor) since lighting will be coming from left side.

Creation of Musical Chairs: Step 4

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Guitar player is now chopped and added on layer over the chair.

Creation of Musical Chairs: Step 5

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Spotlight is added using the filter/render/spotlight tool.

Creation of Musical Chairs: Step 6

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With brush tools, some swirled lines are added, with eraser tool trimming edges and also softening parts not in the spotlight. These swirls represent the music swirling through the chairs - thus the title, Musical Chairs.

Creation of Musical Chairs: Step 7

Final result

Creation of Musical Chairs: Final Result

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