A Work in Progress: fairy forest



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fairy forest
In Contest:
whimsical nightlight


Original image


step 1 of 4

original background picture made by myself
I have used colour range selection and chosen different pixels of the greens, whites and darker colours then put each selections on different layers

Creation of fairy forest: Step 1
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step 2 of 4

after many different pixels have been selected i have changed the hue and saturation on each of them to modify the colours to luminescence ones then i have put a black layer below the colour layers.

Creation of fairy forest: Step 2
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step 3 of 4

at this step i have modified the source image, deleted its background, changed the hue and saturation, than multiplied it several times to have the mushroom bunches on different layers.

Creation of fairy forest: Step 3
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step 4 of 4

finally i have put the mushroom bunches on the top of the colour layers and used gaussian blur filter on each mushrooms to give them shiny effect.
As last step i have flattened the image then changed the brightness a bit and that's it. :)

Creation of fairy forest: Step 4
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Final result

Creation of fairy forest: Final Result

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avatar kcinsti
kcinsti says:

Hey.

You could have saved yourself a lot of time at the start by just creating a new layer above the original pic, filling it with a deep blue and setting the layer mode to Multiply.

(5 years and 2414 days ago)
author says:

Hey,

Yes, i tried that method first but with colour range and hues&sat changing the shades became a bit more realistic and i wanted to create a colourful magical mood but many thanks for your input!

(5 years and 2409 days ago)