A Work in Progress: Morning Suprise



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Morning Suprise
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Original image


step 1 of 14

Add gate to castle picture and extend sky above castle.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 1
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step 2 of 14

Crop out horse and moon.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 2
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step 3 of 14

Cut out hoplites from source pic.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 3
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step 4 of 14

Crop out ladder.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 4
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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.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 7
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step 8 of 14

Platform cart ready to be pasted into scene.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 8
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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.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 11
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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.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 12
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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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Placed and cropped stone archway over the stairway. Tweaked all adjustments and cropped the picture for better composition.

Creation of Morning Suprise: Step 14
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Final result

Creation of Morning Suprise: Final Result

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