A Work in Progress: Abracadabra !



This guide was made for entry:
Abracadabra !
In Contest:
tarpee chairs


Original image


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I start out by using my good friend; the patch tool to cover the tarpee with surrounding parts of the image.

Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 1

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The wall proved to difficult to patch or to use vanishing point so I copy and pasted another part of the wall then resized skewed and distorted and burned to match the perspective and shade.

Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 2

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Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 3

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Next, I replaced the last window using the same technique.

Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 4

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Further down the line I have patched out the other tarpee repaired the fence by copying over the right side and flipping it and adding a hinge. I have also removed the flower pot using patchtool.

Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 5

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Using clone stamp tool, I added a plant between the house and fence and worked on the house wall with copy and paste distort etc..

Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 6

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Model used.

Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 7

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Using the pen tool, I cut the model from her image using the pen tool, tracing around her, right clicking and using (Make Selection) and pasting her into the scene.

Creation of Abracadabra !: Step 8

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Holding down shift while using free transform reduces her size equally on all sides to keep proportion.
Making a quick selection around her dress and lip areas, I used hue/saturation on (REDS) to change to red colours to match the blue tarpee.

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Using the original source image, I used the pen tool again to cut out the chairs and flower pot and used free transform to resize.

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I added a little bit of sparkle by painting a few dots in blue and yellow and adding some outer glow FX.

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Final result

Creation of Abracadabra !: Final Result

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