A Work in Progress: My reflection is drowning



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My reflection is drowning
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Own image, having fun at the beach

Creation of My reflection is drowning: Step 1

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Own image

Creation of My reflection is drowning: Step 2

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Open the source 1, expand the canvas by a 150% and clone the water.

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On a new layer in multiply mode pick the water color and paint it to make it darker.

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Pick the source from the step 1, mask it and place it in soft light mode.

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Use Hue/Saturation on this layer to decrease the saturation

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Now duplicate the same layer but this time in normal mode with a 50% of opacity.

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Decrease a bit the saturation of this layer using hue/saturation and reduce the contrast using brightness/contrast.

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Mask and place the arm and the hand

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In a new layer in multiply mode paint with a darker color to make the shadow darker.

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Pick two pieces of water and paste where the arm touch the water

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Paste again and resize and warp to make it fit better.

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And again to finish

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In one more layer in multiply mode paint the arm shadow.

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Paste the another arm to finish :)

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Final result

Creation of My reflection is drowning: Final Result

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