A Work in Progress: Balanced by sadness



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Balanced by sadness
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yellow umbrella


Original image


step 1 of 7

I made a pattern out of the umbrella and selected all single parts from the statue. So the right

arm, the left arm, the head and so on.
For every single part, I applied the pattern overlay seperately with blending mode set to overlay.

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Step 1

step 2 of 7

The hands I made in the same way, but set the opacity of the pattern overlay to 65%.

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Step 2

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I arranged the two statues and the rope. For the hands, that are holding the statues, I used a standard PS pattern, set the blending mode to overlay and the opacity to 62%.
For the knots I used a lot of colour adjustments to get the same colour as the rope.

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Step 3

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The stars were added with blending mode set to screen. The left version is the normal one, the right version the one with the blending mode.

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Step 4

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The curtain was added with blending mode set to colour dodge. That gave it a pink colour, what I didn't want. So I changed the colour via colour balance to get the blueish colour.

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Step 5

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I added shadows, used dodge and burn and placed the statues and the hands with the horses behind the curtain. Furthermore I lowered the opacity to 60%.

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Step 6

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Finally I added a dark yellow photofilter and copied the layer, used gaussian blur and set the blending mode to soft light.

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Step 7

Final result

Creation of Balanced by sadness: Final Result

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