A Work in Progress: Alone



This guide was made for entry:
Alone
In Contest:
burger


Original image


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First off I cropped out some elements of the cheeseburger for future use.

Creation of Alone: Step 1

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Next up, I took the cheese and adjusted the hue/stretched it out using the liquify tool. This will become the image's sky.

Creation of Alone: Step 2

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After that, I took the hamburger and made slight adjustments with the liquify tool. I then desaturated the image and adjusted the brightness/contrast until I got what resembled a snow covered mountain.

Creation of Alone: Step 3

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I copied this layer and pasted it behind the "mountain range", adjusting the hue and adding a gaussian blur to give it some depth.

Creation of Alone: Step 4

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Copying the mountain range once more, I flipped it vertically and made some more adjustments to give the image a few rock formations closer to the foreground.

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I then took the bottom half of the bun and adjusted the hue to a blueish color.

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Once this was done I stretched the image out and adjusted the brightness/contrast to make it appear white was snow. The little hints of texture left over from the bun gives a nice, subtle bit of depth.

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After that was finished I constructed my sapling from the burger's lettuce.

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Now I added a bit of snow to our scene.

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I wasn't happy with the "flurry" at this stage, so I added a little more.

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Realizing the sapling looked somewhat barren, I added a few clumps of snow to it's lush leaves.

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At the last minute I decided that there wasn't enough contrast in this piece to make it interesting. My solution was to tweak the hue/lighting effects on the sky and mountains in order to stage this scene at night. Thanks for viewing!

Creation of Alone: Step 12

Final result

Creation of Alone: Final Result

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