A Work in Progress: Elisewin

This guide was made for entry:
Elisewin
In Contest:
your song

step 1 of 12

Iâ€™ve started to blending the pictures for the back ground:
In the first one Iâ€™ve erased with a soft brush the big black rock after selecting the area with the lazo tool.

step 2 of 12

Added the photo with the sea and change the blending mode to â€œOverlayâ€, erased the sky.

step 3 of 12

Added the sky that I choose, with hard zoom and with a soft brush Iâ€™ve erased smalls areas on the horizon line. Iâ€™ve put the sky layer down the sea layer.

step 4 of 12

Added a grey gradient layer between the sky and the ground layer.

step 5 of 12

Cut the girl and copied on the back ground adding shadows in two ways:
-Creating a new layer under the girl layer and with a black soft round brush Iâ€™ve painted the shadows, change the opacity to 61%
-Duplicating the girl layer and flip it to vertical. Fill it with black and added a Gaussian blur. Change the blending mode to Multiply with 50% of opacity and than Edit>transform>distort.

step 6 of 12

Duplicated the girl layer and with the smudge tool Iâ€™ve changed hairs, skin and the dress.

step 7 of 12

To make the reflection in the sea Iâ€™ve duplicate the girl layer, flip it to vertical and then Filter>Distort>Wave. Changed the opacity to 25% and changed curves to make it darker.

step 8 of 12

Added violin (Iâ€™ve erased with the magic eraser the area around it, copied and paste into a new layer)

step 9 of 12

Adedd shadows to the violin, in the same way that I used with the girl.

step 10 of 12

With the smudge tool Iâ€™ve modified the violin and added the reflection, like with the girl. Same step but playing with different values.

step 11 of 12

At the top Iâ€™ve added a blue gradient layer, blending mode â€œColor dodgeâ€ with 59% opacity and changed curves.

Thatâ€™s it! Hope you like it :)

step 12 of 12

Changed shadows, biggest then before..

Final result

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