A Work in Progress: Night Lotus



This guide was made for entry:
Night Lotus
In Contest:
wedding dress


Original image


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This is the selection of the wedding dress from source image. Made it with quick selection tool.

Creation of Night Lotus: Step 1

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These are petals selection also made with quick selection tool.

Creation of Night Lotus: Step 2
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Using the warp tool, I reshaped the wedding dress to roughly fit petals. I lowered the opacity here for SBS purposes.

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I used the ctrl+shift+I+Del method to cut the wedding dress into the shape of the petals. Every new wedding dress petal has got two layers: one with normal blending mode, the second one with blending mode hard light to pop up shadows.

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Continued with the rest of the petals in the same manner presented in step 4.

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Finished the whole flower and revealed original backround.

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Merged all new petals and duplicated layer. Colored petals using hue/saturation and changed blending mode to hard light with 71% opacity.

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Added shadows and lights using two separate linear gradient layers. (one from black to transparent on the right side and another one from light yellow to transparent on the left side).

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Added clouds in different positions and blended using layers mask.

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Added stars field and masked different parts as I didn't want for them to overwhelm my image.
Stars field has two layers: one was blending mode color (opacity 69%) to render a slight blue tone to the whole image, and second one blending mode screen (opacity 82%) to give more light to the whole image.

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Added a darker gradient map and a brightness/contrast adjustment layer for shadows and highlights and a pink gradient (from left to right) to give a warmer tone to the petals.

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I used the healing brush tool and clone stamp tool to cover some really black bits and pieces that I noticed in the middle of the flower and I wasn't very happy with.

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Final result

Creation of Night Lotus: Final Result

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