A Work in Progress: Friendly Meeting



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Friendly Meeting
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Original image


step 1 of 9

Grass is cloned to cover canvas to be used for image.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 1

step 2 of 9

Parts of spider source have been lassoed and brought on to a new canvas.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 2

step 3 of 9

Flowers are created from the spider 'eyes' using the smudge tool to 'pull'out the petals. These will be given more shape by burning shadows with burn tool, and highlighted using the dodge tool.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 3

step 4 of 9

Another type leaf is created using scaled-down duplicates of the leaf from source.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 4

step 5 of 9

Yellow daisies are duplicated and added. Flowers will be scaled to various sizes and rotated as needed.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 5

step 6 of 9

Some flowers are color changed w hue/sat tool and added to image. Next some of the larger multi-leaves are added, staggering among layers of the flowers and scaling some smaller than others. Using color/balance tool, some of the multi-leaves are a little more yellow, some have blue added, and some even a little red, so that they will not all look the same.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 6

step 7 of 9

The red snake and the spider are added to the image.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 7

step 8 of 9

Using smudge tool, some stems of grass are pulled up over the spider and worm. Layers must be merged in order to do this.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 8

step 9 of 9

Some 'noise' using render/noise filter is added to flower layer. Finally the dodge and burn tools add final highlights and shadows.

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Step 9

Final result

Creation of Friendly Meeting : Final Result

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