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A Work in Progress: Crystal Archer
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This guide was made for entry:
Crystal Archer
In Contest:
crystal warrior
step 1 of 10
Cut out archer.
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step 2 of 10
Crop out bow.
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step 3 of 10
Removed bow from archer cutout.
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step 4 of 10
Make bow wood using fibers filter. Clipped it onto bow.
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step 5 of 10
Placed crystal texture from source over canvas. Had to duplicated it and vertical flip the duped layer in order to fit it over the desired area without enlarging the texture.
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step 6 of 10
Made a displacement map with the archer cutout (without bow) then displaced the texture onto the cutout using the displace filter.
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step 7 of 10
Used multiply blend and 45% opacity to bring out some of the archers details.
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step 8 of 10
Added bow with shadow and highlight. Made levels adjustment for bow and archer and displaced texture.
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step 9 of 10
Added gradient background then made camera raw adjustments.
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step 10 of 10
Revised, added bowstring and arrow from another source pic.
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Final result
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