A Work in Progress: Cold Summer Night



This guide was made for entry:
Cold Summer Night
In Contest:
rooftop


Original image


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In this step I masked out the parts of the roof I no longer wanted in the image

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 1

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Here I added the image of the town that I found on stock.Xchng

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 2
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In this step I color corrected the roof and the town images using color balance curves and brightness and contrast so the meshed well together.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 3

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I then added some stars to the image using a small hard brush.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 4

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I then added some more stars and used the difference clouds tool to give the stars some variation and make the sky look more realistic.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 5

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I placed the tree over top of an unwanted part of the image, I used this mainly for cover up.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 6
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In this step I masked out parts of the tree image that I no longer wanted and also color corrected it to make it look as though it fit.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 7

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using difference clouds I added smoke to the chimneys.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 8

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This is a screen cap that shows the image of the town I used and that it was uploaded by "rolve". Thanks rolve!

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 9

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This is a screen cap showing rolve's statement saying that anyone can use his photos.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 10

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this is a screencap with the image of the tree I used. It also shows that it was uploaded by "hirekatsu". Thanks hirekatsu!

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 11

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this is a screen cap that shows the statement the anyone can use hirekatsu's photos as long as it is non-commercial.

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Step 12

Final result

Creation of Cold Summer Night: Final Result

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