A Work in Progress: Refreshing!

This guide was made for entry:
Refreshing!
In Contest:
swimming pool

step 1 of 10

Here's a picture of a real swimming pool for pigs and hipo..haha!
Then the other one is a picture of me and my wife taken last 2009 summer swimming.
(all captured from my own cam)

step 2 of 10

Next lets incorporate the picture to the dirty but looks refreshing :p pool.

step 3 of 10

Then find a better place and scale it to fit in.

step 4 of 10

Cut and remove the other background to make it better.
Just don't mind the nipple... :)

step 5 of 10

Lets balance the colors until it matches the background...

step 6 of 10

Of course to make it more realistic. We need to follow the sunlight and put a shadow, using pentool, fill with black,decrease the opacity, blur a little then add a lil bit of noise.

step 7 of 10

You can now balance more the color to match the background.

step 8 of 10

You can burn the darker area to make it more better. So that's it, hope u like it.

step 9 of 10

Imagine from this...

step 10 of 10

and this... becomes the final result.

Final result

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