A Work in Progress: Rainy Autunm Day



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Original image


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I opened source 1 and cropped it. Then I created a brightness/contrast adjustment layer.

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Creation of Rainy Autunm Day: Step 2

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On a new layer I placed my own photo, adjusted its size and rasterized it.

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With the polygonal lasso tool I selected the window panels, masked the photo and applied 35% opacity.

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On a new layer over the photo, I applied some shadow.

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I created a new layer above and placed the source 2, rasterized it, got rid of its white background and adjusted its size.

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Using mask, I hid small areas of the background that hadn't been erased, and the right part of the image.

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To the leaves I applied drop shadow and inner shadow and created a hue/saturation adjustment layer.

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I created a new layer under the leaves and applied shadow with 70% opacity.

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On a new layer at the top I place the image source and erased its background. I duplicated it five times and created a branch a bit longer with two copies. Brightness/contrast adjustment layer was applied then.

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I enlarged the third image source copy, applied brightness/contrast adjustment layer and blurred the image to have some depth.

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Then I used the fourth copy of the image source. Same process, but I made it bigger and applied more blur.

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Same process for the last copy of the image source, but increasing its size and blur a little bit.

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On a new layer at the top I created a rain texture [I suggest following this tutorial to add rain to your picture: http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/rain.html . It's a very good one).

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On a new layer above my photo and its shadow I added rain drops to the window panels, using brush and with white foreground.

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Final result

Creation of Rainy Autunm Day: Final Result

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