A Work in Progress: Nightmare



This guide was made for entry:
Nightmare
In Contest:
dream art


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First background image used was one I took. I was learning HDR photography so this was one of my attempts.

Creation of Nightmare: Step 1

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Next the zipper was added at the top.

Creation of Nightmare: Step 2

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The Claw hand was added next. I stretched it a bit and changed the opacity to 65%

Creation of Nightmare: Step 3

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Added the little girl. Tried to get the lighting to match that of the image by adding a lighting effect.

Creation of Nightmare: Step 4

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Added a shadow for the little girl. Duplicated girl image, gradient layer added, distorted adjustment, added gaussian blur. Reduced opacity to 80%

Creation of Nightmare: Step 5

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Evil eye original image.

Creation of Nightmare: Step 6

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With color negative added.

Creation of Nightmare: Step 7

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Eye added to image. I used puppet warp on the zipper to get it slightly wider before the eye was added. Zipper was also altered to say 666.

Creation of Nightmare: Step 8

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Close up of the second altered image I used of the iris.

Creation of Nightmare: Step 9

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Image with the iris smoothed, formed and color adjusted, opacity changed to 80%

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Adjusted curves. Used cross process. Adjusted curves on girl as well.

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Final result

Creation of Nightmare: Final Result

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