A Work in Progress: Secret Portal

This guide was made for entry:
Secret Portal
In Contest:
garden

Original image

step 1 of 10

In this step I cut the image in half and flipped it.

step 2 of 10

Here, I cut out the top portion of the image.

step 3 of 10

I then duplicated the original image and placed it beneath the flipped image so the sky would not be symmetrical.

step 4 of 10

I then changed the brightness and contrast of the image and also the levels and curves to make it look like it was night time.

step 5 of 10

Here, I made the sky even darker with a black overlay.

step 6 of 10

I created the portal using this tutorial. http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/special-effects/portal-effect.3205.html

step 7 of 10

In this step I used the dodge tool to create some highlights from the portal. I also messed with the color balance a bit to make the image look more "uniform"

step 8 of 10

I then used the burn tool to create dark shadow for more contrast.

step 9 of 10

In this step I created the water and a reflection in it. I used this tutorial to create the water http://photoshopcontest.com/tutorials/26/displacement-water.html

step 10 of 10

In this step I added stars using a very small white brush at an opacity of 75%.

Final result

Votes

user	voted
jamespaul
Score: 10

Comments

jamespaul says:

nice concept n execution

(5 years and 3121 days ago)

Pxleyes

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