A Work in Progress: pool anyone?



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step 1 of 16

found a stock photo I wanted to turn into chocolate

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sources used for this step:

step 2 of 16

masked out all the pool balls

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step 3 of 16

desaturated the pool balls

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step 4 of 16

masked out all the numbers and the 8 ball

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step 5 of 16

smoothed out the hard lines and "divits" in the numbers and 8 ball

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step 6 of 16

masked out all the originally white areas of the balls

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step 7 of 16

here I smoothed out all the imperfections in the white areas of the pool balls

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step 8 of 16

masked all the original colored parts of the pool balls

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step 9 of 16

I had to smooth out the imperfections again because chocolate "balls" are not rough

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step 10 of 16

added a dark brown to the numbers and 8 ball with the layer property set to soft light

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step 11 of 16

added a bevel to the numbers with an overlay property

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step 12 of 16

added a milk chocolate color to the originally colored parts of the balls with the layer property set to overlay

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step 13 of 16

added curves adjustment mask to the milk chocolate layer to give it more color depth

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step 14 of 16

added a creme color to the originally white areas of the pool balls with the layer property set to linear burn to give it the appearance of white chocolate

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step 15 of 16

added another dark brown to the numbers and 8 ball with the property set to color dodge

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step 16 of 16

everything merged together and finished

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Final result

Creation of pool anyone?: Final Result

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