A Work in Progress: Brothers in arms



This guide was made for entry:
Brothers in arms
In Contest:
snowboarder


Original image


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Extract the snowboarder by pen

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 1

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Choose the bottom part of the source image, then spread it to have a mountain-like view. (Hide the layer of the snowboarder)

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 2

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Lens blur and increase the brightness of the up-right corner (keep the border smooth by the feather of 100)

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 3

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After some rounds of blurring and brightening, a desaturate step was apply to the whole background image

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 4

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Bring back the snowboarder. Rotate, resize it to be small enough. Cut out the unnecessary board.

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 5

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Duplicate the snowboarder layer to make his "brother". Select the coat and change the hue, saturation to make the blue coat. Also, resize and rotate this layer a little bit to make the difference.

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 6

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Choose the right leg of both the red snowboarder and the blue snowboarder, flip horizontally and resize, rotate them, then join back the body to make it looked real

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 7

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Use clone, eraser, brush, dodge with low opacity to modify the blue coat to make it looked different from the red one.

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 8

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Make the shadow from the left to the upright direction, under the layers of snowboarders. Use pen, black coloring, Gaussian blur and reduce opacity, erase slightly the top of shadow. Also, make the shadow of the red snowboarder on the blue snowboarder. After finishing, apply Gaussian blur (radius 1px) to the snowboarder layers to fit them to the background.

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 9

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Because these snowboarders are walking through the snow, they left their footprints and perturbed the place they walked over. Use the clone (low opacity), take the pattern around to make the plowed-like area. I also embedded a part of the board near the bottom of the image. Notice to make the snow around their legs.

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 10

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Make a upper layer, use white spatter brush to make scatter clump (low opacity) of flying snow, then apply the moving blur to make the snow in the wind. Make some other layers with the same manipulation (change the moving direction a little bit and use grayer brush). Also, make the shallow DOF like the tilt-shift photography to make the photo more impressive. Finally, change the curve to gain the higher contrast.
PS: this is the remade SBS of my submission because I lost my psd file, so the last one is not the same as the one I submitted.

Creation of Brothers in arms: Step 11

Final result

Creation of Brothers in arms: Final Result

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