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A Work in Progress: Morning Suprise
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This guide was made for entry:
Morning Suprise
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Original image
step 1 of 14
Add gate to castle picture and extend sky above castle.
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step 2 of 14
Crop out horse and moon.
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step 3 of 14
Cut out hoplites from source pic.
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step 4 of 14
Crop out ladder.
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step 5 of 14
Wor on rolling platform in a seperate file. Lay in platform crop and place wheel adjust distortion on wheel. Dup and place wheels on all sides.
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step 6 of 14
Wheels placed.
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step 7 of 14
Clipped log texture to top and sides of platform. Rounded some of the sharp corners.
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step 8 of 14
Platform cart ready to be pasted into scene.
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step 9 of 14
Start removing modern railings from scene. Mostly used clone stamp to remove them.
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step 10 of 14
All railings removed.
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step 11 of 14
Added stairway to right wall. Desaturated the soldiers a little as bright colors won't show well in darkness.
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step 12 of 14
Tweaked levels and brightness adjustments some object individually. Also applied a dark blue color fill over scene at reduced opacity and multiply blend.
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step 13 of 14
On seperate layers above the color fill, added lights and glows to soldiers, lights, etc. using color dodge and adjusting opacity.
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step 14 of 14
Placed and cropped stone archway over the stairway. Tweaked all adjustments and cropped the picture for better composition.
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Final result
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