i assembled them, and modified them; with liquify i made the ballon
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and it's time for colour!! i used brushes(only default from photoshop) with different opacity and also, some blending modes te create the ilusion of coloured wood
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so... i updated the image, by modifying the levels in the coluds background and colouring them a little bit with regular photoshop brushes, deleted the ugly black line, and the weird rope ;)