A Work in Progress: Time slipping away



This guide was made for entry:
Time slipping away
In Contest:
pocket watch


Original image


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Cut out the watch. Place the watch on the picture

Creation of Time slipping away: Step 1
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Use liquify tool to shape the clock

Creation of Time slipping away: Step 2
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Adding some shadow on the table. I picked the darkest color from the table. Draw some shadow under the clock on a new layer. Lower the opacity of the layer to match the shadow created by the hand.

Creation of Time slipping away: Step 3
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Placing another clock on the table using cntrl + t, then hold the cntl key down and pick up the corners to put it in the right position.

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Liquify this watch also.

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give it a Gaussian blur from your filter menu. and put it on 2,5

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Put your history edit button on the history-point where everything was sharp before we blurred it (in the history popup window).
Select History brush tool en make it feathered and big. (Like the red dot shown in the picture). This will make the top sharp but saves the blur at the end. so the table and watch blurred out the same way.

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Making the extra drops is easy, pick a color from the watch. Not the darkest nor the lightest color, but something in between. Fill the selecting with this color on a new layer.

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Give the filling a layereffect called bevel/embross. use the settings as shown in the picture.

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clone some elements from the watch and stretch it in shape. like step 4. erase with a small feathered brush the edges for smooth effect.

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Just as in step 6 we use Gaussian blur (2,5) over the whole gold-drop.

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Then again use the history to sharpen the top of the gold. Same as in step 7.

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I used the pentool to trace the hand and background and saved a part of the table I wanted to use.

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Now we have a mask for the background. :)

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I took two colors from the existing photo and used the elliptical gradienttool inside the mask we created. Later on I used levels to darken the background. Then I leveled the colors in the table a bit to give it a better look in total.

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photo hand: my own picture

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the new hand with better lightning: my own picture

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Final result

Creation of Time slipping away: Final Result

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