A Work in Progress: Caffeine Express



This guide was made for entry:
Caffeine Express
In Contest:
forest road


Original image


step 1 of 6

Started with source image of road in forest
Cut out woman and car from second source and placed then on road. Matched colors

Creation of Caffeine Express: Step 1
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step 2 of 6

I moved the woman and car back on the road a little so I would have enough road sticking out.
Placed scene above the truck image and reduced its opacity. Then cut out areas the truck and foreground that the woman and car will come out of.

Creation of Caffeine Express: Step 2
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step 3 of 6

Placed forest, woman, and car behind the previous layer.
Masked out the old background. Fixed area where mans hand was with patch tool

Creation of Caffeine Express: Step 3
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step 4 of 6

Placed Tarmac picture from another source behind the scene.

Creation of Caffeine Express: Step 4
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step 5 of 6

Placed some shadows as the lady and the car are sticking out from the truck and needed some different shadows
Many miscellaneous adjustments including Hue Sat adjustments for both road and tarmac.
Placed some orange back-light on ladies right side. Also some yellow-orange highlights in the road that sticks out.
Shadows on the outside road were the wrong direction, so removed them with stamp tool. Also extended the tarmac pole shadow on the left side into the road into the out road.
Made some shadows on car and lady for where they stick out. Also by the truck tire.
Use stamp tool to rough up the road edges so they were not so straight.
Placed reflection from forest on windshield

Creation of Caffeine Express: Step 5
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step 6 of 6

Camera-Raw -Moved the temperature up plus 10
Used the Auto setting in Camera raw
other minor adjustments

Creation of Caffeine Express: Step 6
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Final result

Creation of Caffeine Express: Final Result

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