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?For today's walkthrough, we're going to show you how to make a cow fly in just a couple of quick and simple steps. Read on to find out...?First off, prepare these set of images:???????Let's begin...?Step 1Separate the legs, the tails, and the head from the body.?Step 2Reposition them and and create bends at the legs. We can copy part of the leg out, and transform it. Slowly mask out the connecting areas to look seamless.?Step 3Enlarge the head a little, and liquify the body.?Step 4Further liquify the head. Pull out 2 stubs so that it can fit the horn.?Step 5Extract horn from source image and place the horns on the head. Fit it nicely in the stubs.?Step 6Since we will be shining lights from above, increasing shadows adds realism. Draw black shades on the body just under the legs.?Step 7Duplicate another layer. Set the top layer as 'Multiply' and the other as 'Overlay'. Play around with the opacity for both to achieve a desirable shadow tone.?Step 8Draw more shades of black on the cow.?Step 9Similar to the steps above, duplicate another layer and change their blend mode respectively.?Step 10The hind right leg looks a little too bright, so we will add more shade to it.?Step 11Further add shadow and highlights, by creating a new 'Overlay' layer (Filled with Overlay neutral color). Use white brush to add highlights and black brush to add shadows.We will have something like this:?Step 12The black edge on the tip of the right ear just won't do, so we will further add white lines there, resembling highlights.?Step 13Extract wings from the dove. We'll only be using one side of the wing, duplicate and flip so that it resembles a pair.?Step 14Copy part of the right wing to fill up the gap.?Step 15Combine the cow and the pair of wings. The wings should be place underneath the cow layer.?Step 16Use the healing brush to join the connecting area.?Step 17Import background into your canvas, and place the winged cow accordingly.?Step 18Change the contrast and color of the background according to these settings.?Step 19Create an elliptical shape using the selection tool, feather it and fill it with black.?Step 20Again, duplicate this layer, one with 'Overlay' blend mode and 'Multiply' for the other.?Step 21Duplicate these 2 layers, and transform it into a bigger shape.?Step 22Draw a ring on top of the cow's head and apply these settings.?Step 23Flatten the 'halo' layer (Create an empty layer and merge it with the layer with blending option). Set it as 'Screen' blend mode. Duplicate this layer to strenghten the opacity and glow of this halo.?Step 24We shall progress to creating a light ray effect. Add a curves adjustment layer and mask off accordingly. Drag the curves to darken the surrounding.?Step 25Duplicate this adjustment layer and invert its layer mask. Drag the curves upwards.Here's the result:?Step 26Create a new layer, fill it with black, and render lens flare. Apply a little Gaussian blur to it.?Step 27Set blend mode for lens flare layer as 'Screen'.?Step 28We can further add intensity to the source of light ray, by drawing streaks of lights using white brush, setting it at 'Overlay' blend mode.?Step 29Next up, we will add in some feathers. Open the feather image and desaturate it.?Step 30Do a quick mask by dragging the blend if sliders, and flatten the layer.?Step 31Resize and make a selection around the feather, and define it as a brush.?Step 32We can use different brush setting to create a natural flow of feathers, or we can place them manually.?Step 33Add in more feathers and combine them into one layer.?Step 34Apply an outer glow to add some color to the feathers.?Step 35Duplicate another layer and invert this layer of feathers.?Step 36Place the inverted layer above and set blend mode as 'Overlay'.?Step 37Create a new alpha channel (Alpha 1) similar to below.?Step 38Apply lens blur to both of the feather layers, based on this channel.?Step 39Add in more feathers with different opacity and blurness to add a sense of depth.?Step 40Import the road sign.?Step 41Extend the pole of the sign, simply by copying and extending it from existing parts.?Step 42Transform it from its original perspective to a flatter one.?Step 43Reduce the size of the cow symbol,?Step 44so that we have space for a halo sign.?Step 45Transform and tilt the sign abit.?Step 46Increased its contrast and saturation by a little:?Step 47We can then combine the background and sign layer, and apply lens blur using the same channel 'Alpha 1'.Result:?Final PieceIn the final piece, I've further added some glows, and sharpened the whole image a little. ................
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