A Work in Progress: A House in the Trees



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Original image


step 1 of 9

Source is manipulated using the liquify warp tool.

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 1

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Difference cloud used on image from liquify warp

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 2

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Using filter/render/glowing edges, more interest is added to background image being created

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 3

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Bird is created using last image in last step. With liquify warp too, parts of bird are pulled and shaped with size 64 warp tool

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 4

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A section of the 1st image warped for background is selected and will be used for final background. Bird shape is duplicated and will be duplicated one more time then scaled to various sizes and intensity changed on each size.

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 5

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Several color changes will be made in background as image progresses until pleasing color is found. Here pieces of original source have been lassoed and duplicated and will be made into the branches.

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 6

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Now branches have been shaped using liquify warp and smudge tools. Edges are trimmed with eraser tool. A few grape-like shapes are added with brush tool.

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 7

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Filter/render/omni light circle is added here.

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 8

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A birdhouse is fashioned by lassoing a section in the shape of the roof, then lassoing another section in A rectangular shape. The edges are refined with eraser tool, then color changes are made, filter textures added and gaussian blur added. Color intensity is taken down and scale taken down to move it a little into the distance.

Creation of A House in the Trees : Step 9

Final result

Creation of A House in the Trees : Final Result

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avatar MossyB
MossyB says:

Very nicely described, and very original creativity for the background.

(5 years and 2774 days ago)