A Work in Progress: Old Time Love Story?



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Old Time Love Story?
In Contest:
marionettes


Original image


step 1 of 6

Inserted, flipped and re-sized photo for background.

Creation of Old Time Love Story?: Step 1
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step 2 of 6

Extracted the marionette from the source file, edited his arm and eyes.

Creation of Old Time Love Story?: Step 2

step 3 of 6

Added in the fairy marionette and re-sized, rotated and cropped her to fit.

Creation of Old Time Love Story?: Step 3

step 4 of 6

Added a glow around the fairy's wings, and a shadow for the arm.

Creation of Old Time Love Story?: Step 4

step 5 of 6

Merged a copy of the layers and duplicated it. Did a Box Blur of about 3px on the top layer, and with a layer mask removed the blur from the marionettes.

Creation of Old Time Love Story?: Step 5

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Lastly I did a Vibrance adjustment over my layers and desaturated the colours and again with a layer mask brought some vibrance and saturation back in some places on the marionettes.

Creation of Old Time Love Story?: Step 6

Final result

Creation of Old Time Love Story?: Final Result

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