Original image
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Room source photo
step 2 of 17
Reed Reflections photo used for background
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Dragonfly photo used as reference for dragonfly.
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Wooden sculpture from room source is chopped and moved into workspace over background. Not all of background will be used. It will be moved and placed to leave brightly lit area behind bird.
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Shape of bird is fashioned with wooden sculpture piece by using the smudge and liquify tools.
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Bluish feather has been designed from bluish area in 'room' source. These feathers will cover the head. They will be duplicated (using alt key) and some will be turned slightly to follow contour of head by using edit/transform/rotate tool.
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Here the feather for neck and wing are started (also from small colored areas of 'room' source photo. Neck feathers have to start at bottom of neck and will be overlapped in rows going upward until reaching head. Wings will also start forming at bottom and work upward.
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More wing feathers are being added, sometimes changing size (using edit/transform/scale) and sometimes rotating slightly.
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More work on adding feathers.
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The head is now further along and more work is being done on the tail feathers.
step 11 of 17
Christmas colors are being added from Christmas tree in source photo.
step 12 of 17
Christmas flower is designed from sofa in source.
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Adding flowers made from sofa. They are duplicated, with some scaled larger and some smaller, then some are slightly changed with the edit/transform/distort tool, then rotated before placing them on canvas.
step 14 of 17
Here another layer of background is added, moving it so that interesting designs in it will show through top layer which must be slightly changed in opacity (right click on it's layer in layer window to change opacity).
step 15 of 17
Dragonfly is developed now using sofa for source. When all parts are ready, they are merged, then they are moved into canvas.
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Dragonflies are duplicated, some scaled smaller, and some reversed using edit/transform/flip horizontal. A couple are layered behind the top background layer to show through, and the others are placed to give a touch of color where needed and to balance out the whole canvas.
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How source photo was used.
Final result
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Well explained, thanx
(5 years and 3418 days ago)