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Why Nature?

I love nature. Nature is beautiful, peaceful, and soothing. The pleasure of natural green sight, blue skies, smell of the salty sea air, sounds of birds, deep forests, mountains, stars shining with the moonlight, everything just caught my eyes. 
Sometimes I wonder what else in these nature world, other than us, whatelse that we cannot see. What is the history, or secrets hidden in such beautiful places. There may be another realm sharing the same nature with us and live there. I linked the nature with any elements with the story behind it..


Friday 20 May 2011

Image 4 : [Sea] - Deep Castle

Original photos










The process

First, paste a castle image onto the deep sea image. Resize it.



Then using magic wand, select the black area and remove it.



Select mermaid and copy the area..



Place these images, rotate, and resize them as needed.



Then I add the famous fluorescent mushroom by digitalblasphemy as a plant at the bottom of the sea.




Now, cover the whole area with bubbles image. Resize them bigger as the original photo is slightly smaller. It doesnt matter if the photo will become pixelated abit when resizing it.. because we want just a light effect of bubbles.




Change blending option into softlight... there, we get a soft effect of bubbles.




Place jellyfish, duplicate and resize them until satisfied. Same goes to the mushroom plant.




After that, I make a new layer on the top of the castle image and fill in with black color.




Using brush tool, I color a bit part of the castle on that layer.. this time I lower down the opacity so that I can see the image behind that particular layer, make it easier to work with.



Change the layer blending option to darken, it will gives you this effect. A shining bright castle..



Finally, I add some more bubbles sparkling effects.. yeap, my favorite effects~ :)



Final Image


Deep Castle

Story of the picture: Deep in the sea, there live a mermaid.. who longing for her long lost home with a huge happy family. She eventually explores to another part eager to know what's there on the land. Mermaid, as usual, loves to sing to enchant sea creatures and anything on the surface of the sea. Bubbles in the picture shows that it moves follow the waves of the beautiful and irresistible song. The song could gives an energy to the plant and sea creatures that makes them glowing.

image credit : deep sea | castle | mermaid |  bubbles | jellyfishfluorescent

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- make a rough sketch to throw your idea onto the paper. search for a reference image, but don't simply copy.
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