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How it was done

Toast flying from a colourful toaster.

• The toaster was photographed from above on a plain background, allowing for plenty of space at the top.

• It was outlined with the Pen Tool and the Path was turned into a selection.

• The Gradient Map dialogue box was opened with Image > Adjustments > Gradient Map.
  Any combination of colours can be used here as with the Gradient Tool.

• The selected toaster was filled with the Gradient colours.
  The dark tones in the image change to the darker colours from the Map; lighter tones are changed to the lighter colours.

• The heating elements would look better if glowing.

• A bright red brush with 50% hardness was used to paint in the straight lines of the elements. This was done on a separate layer so that any changes and corrections could be made more easily.

• Two slices of toast were photographed from different angles but compatible with them flying up out of the toaster.

• Each slice of toast was treated separately.

• The toast was selected via Channels and cut out from the background.

• They were rotated and positioned.

• Two new layers were made of each slice and these copy layers were given different amounts of Motion Blur to give the blurred movement effect.

• After flattening, the final task was to apply a little Gaussian Noise.
  The Motion Blur filter means the texture of all parts of the image will not look the same and the Gaussian Noise merges everything in better.

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