Original image
step 1 of 31
Take coaster side.
step 2 of 31
Duplicated and flipped for use of mid left building.
step 3 of 31
Scaled to add width.
step 4 of 31
Used actual track to use for middle building. Outlined to isolate.
step 5 of 31
Used 'chrome' filter for initial distortion of insides along with motion blur.
step 6 of 31
Add balcony bars by creating neutral color strips and beveling them with a warp of 'Arch'.
step 7 of 31
Add shadows for each.
step 8 of 31
Added 'hue and saturation' layer to side strips.
step 9 of 31
Create far left green building shape.
step 10 of 31
Darken side and add faint windows using tone curves and dodge and burn layer on 'overlay' mode using 50% grey color.
step 11 of 31
Add side lights to edge of building along with faint yellow colors.
step 12 of 31
Rotate and use vanishing point to add 'height' to top mid left building. Also blurring the the furthest point at top.
step 13 of 31
Add vignette grey layer as backing fir building behind green grate.
step 14 of 31
Add texture by adding noise and then motion blur.
step 15 of 31
Colorize grate area.
step 16 of 31
Create shape/mask from reference building file. Shown later in SBS.
step 17 of 31
Merge reference mask with mid building elements.
step 18 of 31
For far right building...used vanishing point to add more 'height' to building. Rotate for perspective angle.
step 19 of 31
Darken building.
step 20 of 31
Use color range to select areas in between floors to color yellow (as window lighting). Use on 'hard light' mode.
step 21 of 31
Create layer with black for sky.
step 22 of 31
Create render clouds layer above 'black' layer.
step 23 of 31
Use rendered cloud layer on 'overlay' mode.
step 24 of 31
With the two layers blended...added stars. Just white color with small speck brush.
step 25 of 31
Create shape for foreground building in color.
step 26 of 31
Shade side to give shape. Using Tone curve.
step 27 of 31
Add spotlights to top of building. Various blending modes...'soft light' and 'overlay'. Created with wide angle brush and motion blur along with layer mask fade.
step 28 of 31
Put all buildings on top of black cloud layer. Then added 'lights' to various buildings.
step 29 of 31
Darken tree added from step 28. Outline and darken bottom area image.
step 30 of 31
This is my photo of a tree in my backyard.
step 31 of 31
This is another of my photos of the reference middle building.
Final result
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