A Work in Progress: He Is Risen



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Original image


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The brown door at the right side of photo is lassoed and moved into canvas, then duplicated until large enough to cover the whole canvas. The sections are then merged together. This will become a filter layer over the bricks.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 1

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A section of bricks is also lassoed and brought into canvas. This section is trimmed with eraser tool to straight sides, then duplicated several times and merged together. This merged section is now duplicated 3 times and 4 sections put together to cover canvas, then merged.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 2

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Here I duplicated the first layer made from the brown door and moved it to the front to cover bricks. Then I reduced the opacity to let the bricks show through. Later I will bring up the blues in color/balance on brick layer.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 3

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Here a section of the guard rail is lassoed and moved into canvas to begin making the cross.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 4

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Here section for cross is chopped with eraser tool, then it is duplicated with alt key ready to flip horizontally.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 5

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Duplicated side is flipped over here, then center post is set over other center post, then merged together.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 6

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Here are the steps to form the lily. (Only one flower is created, then flipped, rotated, scaled to different sizes, and distorted into different positions to form all the flowers in arrangement.) The small whitish area near the meter is first lassoed, then formed into a flower shape with 6 petals using the smudge tool to pull petals out and shape them further.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 7

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Cross is darkened with brightness/contrast tool, then lit with Filter,Render, Light Effects, Soft Omni at 70 setting. I will move this later to head of Christ.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 8

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The grey-blue meter is cut out and moved into work area now. With liquify bloat tool, it is rounded out ready to be used as the container (vase) for the arrangement. It will be shaped using the burn tool in airbrush mode.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 9

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Here the bloat tool has been used to shape the container.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 10

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Here I bring in the lily shape and put in more details with brush tools. Dodge and burn tools work well for fine lines in detailing also.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 11

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From the single finished lily, more lilies are duplicated with the alt key, some flipped horizontally, and some changed in size and shape with distort tool. Rotate tool is used a lot to tilt flowers to one side or the other.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 12

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Foliage and buds are drawn in with a brush tool, with shadows and highlights made with burn and dodge tools.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 13

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Now most of the flowers and foliage are finished. I had not yet merged the flowers and foliage together, so did some rearranging to give the arrangement a nice flow to lead the eye through the arrangement and up to the cross. The container is duplicated now and flipped vertically after brushing in a table surface. The cross has been desaturated to give it a silvery look.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 14

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Source photo of cemetery with Christ on cross

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 15

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Christ image is lassoed from source photo and moved into canvas to be chopped and scaled to fit on cross.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 16

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The cross has been duplicated with one layer being moved slightly in a diagonal direction and then burned to give it a 3D effect. Christ is put onto cross, then merged to cross layer. Now they can be darkened with brightness/contrast tool. The filter/render/light effects/soft omni light is added to light Christ's head.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 17

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Final shadow areas are added to flowers on sides away from the light source. A slightly warm filter is added over entire work area after merging.

Creation of He Is Risen: Step 18

Final result

Creation of He Is Risen: Final Result

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