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A Work in Progress: Thunderbird
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This guide was made for entry:
Thunderbird
In Contest:
stone bird of prey
Original image
step 1 of 6
Crop out bird with pen tool.
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step 2 of 6
Color beak and claws using Color blend and colored body with a dark brown reduced opacity.
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step 3 of 6
Cropped lightning pic and adjusted levels so only brighter lightning shows.
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step 4 of 6
Move the top lightning over to left a bit. Used dodge tool to lighten up the lightning.
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step 5 of 6
Apply Linear Dodge A blend to lightning layer.
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step 6 of 6
Rotated bird and fixed inadvertant tumor on his leg. Made snapshot then applied a color burn gradient at 13%.
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Final result
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