A Work in Progress: Home on the Range

This guide was made for entry:
Home on the Range
In Contest:
cow mania

step 1 of 11

Start by adjusting background image with Hue-Sat also dodge burn ranch building

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step 2 of 11

Make water area with blue and Grass on bottom

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step 3 of 11

Add Buffalo Herd adjust herd with Hue-Sat and Dodge-Burn

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step 4 of 11

Made water reflection with graduated Opacity then Graduated Motion Blur. Then
Displacement of ripple effect which I made from scratch from a tutorial.Then darkened edges of pond.

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step 5 of 11

Cut out and applied shadow to all animals on separate canvas first Antelope and shadow

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step 6 of 11

Deer and shadow

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step 7 of 11

Cow and shadow

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step 8 of 11

Calf and shadow

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step 9 of 11

Placed Linked all the animals on Range canvas. Then on each animal I made a Hue Sat adjustment to maintain saturation-color consistency with the overall canvas. Also dodge burned each one.

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step 10 of 11

Camera Raw Adjustments, I used Artistic 05 Adjustment with 48% Slider. Slight vignette.

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step 11 of 11

Lens blur to gradually blur background from about the row of trees. Final touch-ups

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Final result

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