A Work in Progress: Garden Gate



This guide was made for entry:
Garden Gate
In Contest:
heart shaped


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Butterfly photo

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Gate Plants source

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Roses and baby breath source (my photo)

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Yellow blossoms (my own photo)

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Purple flowers source (my photo)

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Source photo for green leaves for heart base

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Greens here will be duplicated after chopping and placed in heart shape by scaling a small section of greens, duplicating it, then rotating often to form heart.

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Here heart shaped base of greens is complete and ready to add flowers.

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Individual flowers from source photos have been chopped and added in pleasing combinations. Some have been flipped and/or rotated to get better angles.

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A ribbon was created with the brush tool, making it appear to wrap around the wreath. A bow will also be created and added at one side later.

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Ribbon is shaded with the burn tool.

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With flowers and ribbon on wreath, layers are merged so that wreath can be moved to the gate. (Don't merge onto background layer or you will have to chop the outside of wreath all over again.)

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Wreath is placed on door after scaling (edit/transform/scale) down to fit the door.

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Ivy on pots have had heart=shaped ivy cloned, then butterfly is being shaped into heart shape using first liquify, then smudge and eraser tools.

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After forming one side of heart butterfly, it is duplicated then flipped horizontally and merged together.

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More butterflies are duplicated. Colors are changed with hue/saturation tool; Panels on door are cloned to plain panels, then hearts drawn with brush tool.

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Finally, the burn tool is used to add shadows where needed throughout the piece.

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Final result

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