A Work in Progress: Captive Hating



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Original image


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cut out source

Creation of Captive Hating : Step 1

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warped head to parrot shape

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warped the high wings to a compact parrot body shape

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Made selection of new parrot shape and painted on a new layer set to overlay

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From vulture to a prettier parrot

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Background: Blur > radial blur > zoom
copied layer 4 times and rotated to fill canvas
adjusted brightness to make dark

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Moon: First used a feathered bush at 900px
Second a hard brush at 800px with opacity 20%
Third a Hard brush at 700px opacity 60%

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Simple bars: using a hard brush and holding down shift while dragging to make a plain bar. Applied silver gradient overlay.

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copied the bar several times. transforming some to make the thinner bars in the background. adjusted brightness of each to fit light source and added slight blur to background bars

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Mirror frame
Using marquee tool, stroked selection with 50px, using pen tool I added the top of the mirror. Then added bevel FX.
Mirror Face:
Marquee selection filled with gradient
copied birds head and blurred for reflection

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Chain:
Marquee stroked with 5px on bottom layer. hard brush at 5px on top layer. add same bevel FX to both layers.
Copied both layers several times placing one on top of another to form a chain.

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Perch:
Marquee selection filled with gradient from top to bottom, the bottom being the darkest

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Final result

Creation of Captive Hating : Final Result

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