Original image
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Source photo for background by hissi at flickr
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Knight source by One lucky guy at flickr
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Starfish is chopped and part selected which will become the dragon.
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Legs and head have been formed with liquify warp tool, and tail extended, then smudge tool pulls out the spikes down the back and on the head.
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More details have been added to head and body here using smudge, eraser tool, dodge and burn tools.
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Dragon has been color changed with hue/saturation tool and moved onto rocks. I decided to move it in next step into foreground and flip him horizontally.
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Now the dragon is in foreground and the knight has been added onto the rocks.
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Now I've tried using green on dragon, but will change it again! (Lots of trial and error often happen). Birds have been brushed into the sky, getting smaller as they go into the distance. They will later be softened using a very soft light airbrush.
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Using brush tools, fire is added to dragon, keeping brush opacity low.
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It seemed there should be more fire, so here it has been extended closer to knight.
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After deciding this dragon had to have wings, I've sketched in where wings will go with brush tool.
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Wings were started by adding a pattern layer over image, then removing with eraser tool all the areas except for the wings. Pattern layer is lowered in opacity to 50% to look more like gossamer-like wings.
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Fine tuning has been done to edges of wings, water is cloned over couple areas of tail, more burning done to wings. Then, a very slight mist of very light blue is airbrushed over some of the knight and dragon.
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After haze is added with airbrush, a light blue filter is added at 20%.
Final result
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