| Well I got super Stubborn, and managed to find
Walker's Favourite Watering Hole. |
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- I started by enlarging the canvas to twice the original height, and kept the same horizontal size (344 x 500) to give me some space to add a shoreline and water.
- Used the clone tool (aligned, 50, round, 128) to clone some land mass in the bottom left corner, and create a shoreline. Img step1.jpg
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- Duplicated the image shift+d, and under image, I flipped it Step2.jpg
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- Next I created a pattern for a background fill, using the air brush. Opened a new image 200x200, black background. Set the airbrush to 200, square, opacity 128, paper texture Ocean, cropped the image for a reasonably clean edge.
- Because I was going to paint over it, I didn't bother to make it seamless. Step3.jpg
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- I went back to Step1.jpg, and I used the magic wand to select a marquee around the grey transparent area, using a setting of about 30 with a feather setting of about 3 to hopefully soften the shoreline.
- With my marquee up, I selected the flood fill tool, with a high tolerance of 100 because I was protected by the marque, set the "options" to use step3.jpg, and filled the area for the water.
- I continued to leave the marquee up till I was finished cloning Walker's reflection.
- Using the cloning brush, Aligned, 100, once again because of the protection from the marquee, Shape square I think, A much lower opacity, to let the wave movement of the water show through, and to diminish the clarity of the reflection.
- I right clicked near the rear hoof of the inverted Walker, and then moved to step1.jpg, and clone/pasted my image over the water pattern.
- I played with this several times before I was satisfied with it. After each attempt, I just did an undo, ctrl+z and started over.
- When I finally got close to something acceptable, I reduced the size of the cloning tool, and the opacity, to finely touch up and soften the water line.
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- Finally I cropped the image to remove any unnecessary areas, and here it is.
- Once again not professional finish, but I think good enough to be considered a good exercise, and to point me in the right direction.
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| Consensus