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Learn to Photoshop How it was done
It would be impossible to get a perfect flower head and all the leaves exactly as you want them so all the different elements had to be photographed separately and then stitched together. - The two sunflowers' heads were photographed against a plain blue background.
- In Photoshop, the Blue channel was used for selecting the flowers to make the cutting out easier.
- Individual petals had to be selected and used to fill in gaps and tidy up bent petals.
- The best leaves from different plants were also photographed separately.
- Everything had to be joined together and matched for tone and colour.
- The sunglasses were photographed separately and put into position over the sunflower heads.
- Copies were made of the sunglasses and turned into shadows.
To make the shadows ripple over the flowers, the Displacement filter was used.
- The glass areas of the sunglasses were cut out and replaced with a darker version of the part of the sunflowers behind them.
- Highlights made with a white brush were put on the glasses to represent the sun.
- Parts of the petals near the sunglasses' supports were reshaped with the Liquify tool.
- Two leaves overlap where it looks like they are holding hands, a new shadow was made.

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