A Work in Progress: Colored Bubbles

This guide was made for entry:
Colored Bubbles
In Contest:
four bottles

Original image

step 1 of 11

Number bubbles from backmost to frontmost for easy reference.

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step 2 of 11

Using pen tool made 9 of the larger bubbles each on their own layer.

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step 3 of 11

Start distorting patches from bottle and save as seperate layers. This one is for the yellow.

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Place copy of appropriate color patch over each circle layer and clip to appropriate circle. Here I did small yellow circle.

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step 5 of 11

Initial circles patched with source textures by color.

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step 6 of 11

Create intersection selection for layers 1 and 3 and copy selection to a new layer. This will be colored with an orange as their is no overlapping of red and yellow in the bottle picture.

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step 7 of 11

Here's the result of step 6 above.

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step 8 of 11

All patches have been put in place

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Place a copy of original pic on top layer and use linear light mode.

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Make a snapshot and adjust with camera raw.

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Further adjustments with unsharp mask and gaussian blur. Final touch ups of picture.

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Final result

Comments

carmen says:

thank you!

(5 years and 2062 days ago)

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