A Work in Progress: Meet & Greet Issue



This guide was made for entry:
Meet & Greet Issue
In Contest:
pxleyes magazine


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First, i selected as much avatars as possible.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 1

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Masked all avatars, and moved them close together. Also did some polishing up, to make them match better.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 2

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The front row needed something to sit on.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 3

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Created a new background by using a large dry brush, using different layers in mode 'overlay'.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 4

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I planed for a reflection and needed a replace-filter for that. Blurred the sea image slightly and adjusted it to gray scale.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 5

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Here it is, with the reflection and replacefilter in place.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 6

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Next step is adding the text to the cover. Used a nice free barcode font to change the text 'PxlEyes' to a barcode.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 7
sources used for this step:

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Now with text, image and barcode. Also added another avatar (scaled up a bit, and added some grain to hide the resize artifacts).

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 8

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Also create the previous issue. May be less detailed, because it will end up behind the first one.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 9

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Both issues together.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 10

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Created background by filling a layer with grain and aplying a motion blur on it.

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Meet & Greet Issue: Final Result

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