A Work in Progress: Pumpkin Mosaic



This guide was made for entry:
Pumpkin Mosaic
In Contest:
pumpkins


Original image


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Placed pic in 2000 pixel square. Ready to content aware fill top and bottom.

Creation of Pumpkin Mosaic: Step 1
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After fill to expand borders.

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Cut out pumpkins and used patch and clone tool to remove grass, etc.

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Place sky background on a seperate layer and apply a gaussian blur. Apply a bevel and emboss layer style. Use a black marble texture.

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Pattern used to create a new brush. I gave it an angle jitter of 2% to allow for varying placement.

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Start placing squares with the new brush in a transparent layer above the background layer.

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Once the all tiles are done, select them all and use fill to place them in a layer mask on the background layer.

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Start making lines for grooves on pumpkins

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At this point all vertical pumpkin grooves are done. I used pen tool for all vertical grooves.

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Horizontal pumpkin grooves added by hand. Copy the layer style made earlier for the background to the pumpkin layer. Ready to fill (in black) the pumpkin grid lines into a mask on the pumpkin layer.

Creation of Pumpkin Mosaic: Step 10
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Start laying in a layer of black between the tiles.

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Once all black filled in between tiles, reduce opacity of black filler.

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Final result

Creation of Pumpkin Mosaic: Final Result

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