A Work in Progress: Bench



This guide was made for entry:
Bench
In Contest:
selective color


step 1 of 7

I straightened the image and then cropped it

Creation of Bench: Step 1

step 2 of 7

Roughly selected the bench and colorized it using hue/saturation. Also cleaned up some edges.

Creation of Bench: Step 2

step 3 of 7

Added bevel and emboss filter.

Creation of Bench: Step 3

step 4 of 7

Added gaussian blur and changed blending mode to soft light.

Creation of Bench: Step 4

step 5 of 7

Lowered opacity to 5%.

Creation of Bench: Step 5

step 6 of 7

Used blur tool on the backround and parts of the bench and dodge tool on the backround.

Creation of Bench: Step 6

step 7 of 7

I darkened the leaves a bit as they were too distracting.

Creation of Bench: Step 7

Final result

Creation of Bench: Final Result

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