A Work in Progress: Cash rain

This guide was made for entry:
Cash rain
In Contest:
walk in the rain

Original image

step 1 of 6

The cloud background was made using two of the storm cloud pics from the pack in source 1. It has 4 layers which are transformed, warped and rotated to give a diagonal light source from the right side.

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step 2 of 6

The tunnel from source 2 was added on screen mode. The man from provided source was cut out and flipped horizontally. More clouds were added over his legs. Light rays were painted over the tunnel.

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step 3 of 6

This is how I made the light rays. I paint a star shape, filter it with 100 pixel radial blur, duplicate the blurred layer and rotate it to thicken the light rays.

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step 4 of 6

Coins in hand was cut out and blended into cloud layers with overlay, multiply and 50% normal modes masking out various parts.

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step 5 of 6

Cash was cut out from umbrella. Layer was duplicated three times. One was placed behind the man and two layers were positioned over the man. Layer style has a drop shadow on each cash layer.
Extra coins were cut out from source 5 and arranged through the cash.

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step 6 of 6

Sunset from source 3 was blurred, rotated and blended on soft light mode to add more of a golden color to the scene.
The hand of fate is showering the man in gold after all. ;-)
Don't you wish it was you ?

Lastly I did some final adjustments on hue, saturation and contrast.

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Final result

Comments

BWR says:

Wonderful, detailed SBS. BWR approved.

(5 years and 503 days ago)

Pxleyes

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