A Work in Progress: Harvest Time



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Harvest Time
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Original image


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Horsehead nebula used for texture layer over background

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 1

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Container for fruit arrangement is made with brush tool. Color will be adjusted as project moves along.

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 2

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Fruit pieces are chopped and will be scaled to various sizes , and flipped to add variety to the arrangement. Color changes will also be made to the apples and grapes to add more variety and color contrasts.

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 3

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Adding grapes. With grapes as with all the fruit pieces, edges will be softened using the blur tool.

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 4

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Most of the fruit has been placed and ready to do shading and highlighting.

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 5

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Background is started with liquid warp tool. After warping, scale tool will make the image into a narrower strip which will be duplicated, then joined together.

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 6

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Here the strips are ready to join together into single layer

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 7

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Gradient layer is added to background, and table layer made with a duplicate.

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 8

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Color/hue adjustments were made here to a background to contrast better with the fruit, and grapes have been added to foreground. All pieces of fruit are shaded with the dodge and burn tool, then all layers of fruit are merged so that entire left side of arrangement can be softly shadowed with burn tool.

Creation of Harvest Time: Step 9

Final result

Creation of Harvest Time: Final Result

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