A Work in Progress: Umbrella Fantasy



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Umbrella Fantasy
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Original image


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Source is chopped and shape changed using edit/scale tool

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 1
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Bird and flower shapes formed from umbrella using liquify warp and smudge tools.

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 2
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Flower shapes made from duplicating umbrella shape and edit/distort tools

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 3
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On a new canvas, vines are being added using brush tool and some flowers of varying sizes are being added

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 4
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First bird is added.

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 5
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Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 7
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Background swirls are made by liquify warping the umbrella/beach original source photo. This is used behind a gradient layer so that swirls show through when opacity of gradient layer is lowered.

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 7
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More flowers and vines are being added in interesting patterns.

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 8
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Lighting is added using filter/render/omni light. Burn tool is used to create shadows in flowers, and colors of background adjusted using the hue/saturation tool.

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Step 9
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Final result

Creation of Umbrella Fantasy: Final Result

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