A Work in Progress: bud, flower, seed pods.



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The flower bud of the Banksia in my garden

Creation of bud, flower, seed pods.: Step 1

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The banksia flower

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The seedpods, these are the open pods the seeds have been "spat" out of those lovely mouths. :)

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I selected the image and applied a glass filter

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I sketched around the image and applied some bevel and embose

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I added the original background with a gaussian blur

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I created 3 windows of the same size from my source image

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All 3 images added to windows.

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After adding the backgrouds, I put in the frames for the stained glass using the guides to help. Then increased the saturation and light to make the windows look more like stained glass.

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I added a zoom radial blur, and then masked most of it out, it was just to add a little colour to the lit side of the stone inside the windows and I reduced the opacity to about 50%

Creation of bud, flower, seed pods.: Step 10

Final result

Creation of bud, flower, seed pods.: Final Result

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