A Work in Progress: Microcosm



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Microcosm
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red balls


Original image


step 1 of 9

First I cut out the ball I wanted.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 1

step 2 of 9

I placed the ball on the canvas and duplicated it. I moved the transfom center of the duplicated ball to the center of the canvas, resized this ball a little, moved it down a little and rotated it some degrees.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 2

step 3 of 9

After having resized, moved and rotated the duplicated ball, and without clicking anywhere, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+T did the trick, repeating the action ad infinitum...

Creation of Microcosm: Step 3

step 4 of 9

I put all the ball into a folder, duplicated it, converted to smart object and rasterized it. I duplicated the new object, flipped it horizontally and vertically and put these objects into a new folder.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 4

step 5 of 9

Using the same process in the step 2, I created a new object.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 5

step 6 of 9

I duplicated the new object, flipped it horizontally and vertically and moved it to the other side of the canvas.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 6

step 7 of 9

For the background I used two huge red balls to wich I applied 25 px gaussian blur.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 7

step 8 of 9

I placed two more balls over the big ones, and applied 15 px gaussian blur.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 8

step 9 of 9

To create the "sun" I simply used the smudge tool on a new red ball and applied some gaussian blur too.

Creation of Microcosm: Step 9

Final result

Creation of Microcosm: Final Result

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