A Work in Progress: Spring Treasures



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Original image


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A reddish brown leaf is lassoed from source and put on a new canvas to be turned into a trillium flower.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 1

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Three petals are formed using the eraser tool.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 2

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Liquify warp tool is used on the petals just formed to pull them into desired petal shapes.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 3

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Petals are merged together (but not to the white background) then veins are made with burn and dodge tools.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 4

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Leaf is created with a green section from source photo. Liquify warp tool is used to pull it into proper leaf shape.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 5

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Leaf has had veins added with burn and dodge tools, then a filter of 'noise' (dust and scratches) is added to give leaf a mottled look.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 6

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First of flowers and leaves are placed into source photo background.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 7

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White flowers are formed by desaturating color from red flower, then adding some soft yellows/greens over white. Some of white and red flowers are changed in shape using smudge tool. Centers are added with a brush tool, then lights and shadows added with burn and dodge tools.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 8

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Mushrooms are painted on another new canvas, then will be transferred to the main scene. They are started with a brown section of source to be warped for the mushroom top, and a gray area which is warped into the stem shape.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 9

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Mushrooms as they were formed with smudge tool. A dust/scratch filter is placed over the top, and a sandstone texture filter is placed over the bottom. Two parts will be merged together to moved to scene.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 10

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Here mushrooms are being added to the scene. They are scaled to various sizes after duplicating, some are flipped horizontally, and some have distort tool used to change their shape even more.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 11

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Violets are added with brush tools (these could be made on a new canvas) and a dragonfly also brushed in. To finish up, a lot of work was some with brush and smudge tools to replace out-of-focus foreground. Clone tool also helped here.

Creation of Spring Treasures: Step 12

Final result

Creation of Spring Treasures: Final Result

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