A Work in Progress: A matter of time



This guide was made for entry:
A matter of time
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wooden mill


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step 1 of 9

Cut out windmill and also cut out blades separately. I decided to use only the blades in the end. These are more brown than the original because I was experimenting with color overlays.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 1
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step 2 of 9

Made 5 copies of blades and rotated each layer. Made sure the center of each blade layer was aligned.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 2
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step 3 of 9

This is a combination of three layers. The cyclone source as a background layer, a layer of plain blue as a hue overlay to take away the green from the background and the last layer is the clock on top. The clock was blurred with a radial blur and the layer blend mode is subtract.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 3
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step 4 of 9

The Nebula layer on soft light blend mode.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 4
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step 5 of 9

The sunset layer on overlay mode.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 5
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step 6 of 9

A star layer blended on lighten mode. I masked out stars in the center area and a few larger ones around the edges.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 6
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step 7 of 9

Added two layers of the milky way source. The first is blended on 35% luminosity mode. The second is blended on 30% color dodge mode.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 7
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step 8 of 9

Copied and pasted the rotated blades from step 2. The layer effect has an orange tone color overlay blended on color burn mode. It also has a small drop shadow to bring the blades forward slightly. I added another layer of the clock, blurred it with radial blur and blended it with 80% soft light.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 8
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step 9 of 9

Cut out the clock hands and numbers separately and put each on individual layers. Moved the numbers around so they are all mixed up and out of place.
Made the numbers and clock hands pop out slightly by using layer styles. Each layer has and inner glow, outer glow, drop shadow, inner shadow, color overlay.
Merged all layers, adjusted levels and saved as jpeg.

Creation of A matter of time: Step 9
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Final result

Creation of A matter of time: Final Result

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