Original image
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Here is my kitty. Only 8 months old and over 10 lbs. He's SOOO lazy, and was just a little handful when someone dropped him off in front of our house. This, of course, is my own photo.
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Thanks, again, gopanKarichal for this great photo. Some of my shorecats were looking up, so I needed something for them to look at. Your photo was perfect.
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Heads were made from one 'chopped' from photo, which was moved onto source photo of shore, then duplicated using 'alternate' key.
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Getting heads ready to place by resizing with transform/adjust/scale tool.
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Heads here are all moved to their respective 'bodies' and some are turned by using the transform/adjust/rotate and/or horizontal flip.
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Liquify was used to do shapes of feet and to change body shapes although I wanted to preserve the driftwood effect. With smudge tool, airbrush and paint brush tools, eye colors were added, and heads blended into 'bodies'. Whiskers were added using the pencil tool, then refined by using zoom tool to get very close, then pointing them up and cleaning edges with eraser too.
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By clicking on each of the heads on their particular layer, color/balance, and hue saturation tools were used to colorize the heads, as well as smudge tool to drag some colors from bases up into the heads and from head down into bases. Dodge tool added highlights, and burn tool added shadows where needed.
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Fish bones were drawn free hand using the pencil tool, then added to water with the clone tool. Later, each 'bone' was refined by using zoom tool to get very close.
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Masked dragonfly (using eraser tool at high magnification) is rotated, scaled, and flipped using edit/transform tool, then scaled back down and moved into project.
Final result
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