A Work in Progress: Up up and away



This guide was made for entry:
Up up and away
In Contest:
pxl on tour


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Start with a gradient and some nice sky-like blue color.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 1

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With black and white as primary colors apply clouds under filter/render/clouds and change blending mode to screen.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 2

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Enhance it a bit with levels adjustment layer by moving black guide toward center.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 3

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Make an oval selection and fill it with gray. Transform it to look like a balloon and add with lasso tool the little triangle on the bottom.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 4

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Choose hue/saturation adjustment layer and with "colorize" selected change the balloon color. Add some depth with dodge/burning tool and a little highlight with airbrush.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 5

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You can do as many balloons as you like in any color.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 6

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Just like before, type each letter on a separate layer and rasterize type. Apply same technique like on those oval balloons.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 7

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Add PXL logo and do a little hooks on top of each little guy. I made an oval shapes with thicker brush and applied some bevel and emboss. Also with a small 5px brush and white color add strings around those hooks and attach to balloons. Also apply bevel and emboss in small amount to threads.

Creation of Up up and away: Step 8

Final result

Creation of Up up and away: Final Result

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