A Work in Progress: Woman in the woods



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Woman in the woods
In Contest:
the road behind


Original image


step 1 of 9

Duplicated the background set to overlay at 100%.

Gave it a hue saturation and a curves adjustment layer.

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 1

step 2 of 9

Inserted woman.

Gave it a hue/saturation and a curves adjustment layer.

Duplicated the woman layer and filled it with blue 124f9a set to overlay 36%

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 2

step 3 of 9

Merged the layers of the woman. Created a brightness/contrast and a hue/saturation layer.

Painted shadow under the woman, layer set to overlay 61%

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 3

step 4 of 9

Inserted the shoe. Duplicated it set to multiply 85%.

Gave it a curves and a hue/saturation layer.

Painted shadow.

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 4

step 5 of 9

On a new layer created a rectangle and filled it with a light bleu color a1b2d2.

Rotaded the layer and gave it a gaussian blur around 339.

Duplicated the layer twice.

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 5

step 6 of 9

On a new layer, created a rectangle, filled it with black.

Rotated it.

Gave it a gaussian blur about 50.

Repeated this proces a few times. Gave each layer a different opacity.

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 6

step 7 of 9

On the mist layers masked out the parts i did not want.

On a new layer with a large soft brush, color a1b2d2, added some extra light

Duplicated the woman group and placed it above the light layer. Gave the woman a opacity of 29% and the shadow layer 11%

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 7

step 8 of 9

To get some normal skin color, duplicated the original woman. Placed it on top of all other layers and carefully masked out the skin parts. Set to opacity 26%.

On an new layer with a big soft brush created shadow on the womans back. Set layer to 64%

Gave the mist layer a noise of 5.

On a new layer with a big soft brush set to black, colored the upper edges of the picture. set to opacity 57%

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 8

step 9 of 9

Too darken the picture copied the woman group and set it too darken.

Created a brighness/contrast and a vibrance layer.

On a new layer, with a black brush created extra shadow the womans back, set to multiply 53%

Creation of Woman in the woods: Step 9

Final result

Creation of Woman in the woods: Final Result

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