A Work in Progress: The Last Tango...



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step 1 of 18

Cutted out the dancers using Pen tool.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 1

step 2 of 18

made a copy of the layer and then on the top layer deleted the legs and other parts that will be replaced by fire.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 2

step 3 of 18

lowered the opacity of the under layer and started assembling the fire parts from source nr 3.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 3

step 4 of 18

More fire transforming, liquify , crop, clone...

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 4

step 5 of 18

Added a black background and continue on the arm and chest.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 5

step 6 of 18

then opened a new sheet and crop the woman head. I wanted to behold the face lines. I first reduced saturation to 0 so i could get a b&w head.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 6

step 7 of 18

Then used filter-stylize-find edges.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 7

step 8 of 18

pasted fire source nr2 on to the head, so i could blend it together.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 8

step 9 of 18

Then made the head layer be the top one, and used the blending mode - overlay.
then just merged the layers and cut out the fire face.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 9

step 10 of 18

Assembled the head in the correct place.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 10

step 11 of 18

Used fire source nr2 to create hair. Used liquify, and some crop and paste. at the end smudged the hair used original photoshop preset grass brush.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 11

step 12 of 18

Cuted out the head of the man using pen tool. Now i'm going to work on it so it could be something like water.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 12

step 13 of 18

Used same filter - stylize - find edges.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 13

step 14 of 18

Deleted the black areas, so it would be only grey.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 14

step 15 of 18

Placed the head on a suitable place.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 15

step 16 of 18

Merged the layers and cut out the head. then placed it on the original place.

Then used water splash and pasted it on the whole image, and set the blending to Linear light.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 16

step 17 of 18

Duplicated the layer and used Vivid light blend mode. also deleted the rest of the water around.

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 17

step 18 of 18

Some finishing touches, dodge, burn, delete here, delete there.. And finally added a reflection. finish

Creation of The Last Tango...: Step 18

Final result

Creation of The Last Tango...: Final Result

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