Vice City Paradise

[Cursed]

Well, I had an idea to create a tropical scene of a Vice City sunset with palm trees etc. After some trial and error and experimentation heres what I came up with:

 

 

I think it still needs a bit of work, heres the origional:

 

http://www.floridaflorida.org/Beach1.jpg

 

Ive used too many resources to mention. C&C please.

 

Cursed,

[The-King]

It looks quite nice, especially given the comparison between the original and yours.

 

Curious though, what exactly did you do, and how long did it take?

[Rhoda]

I love the blurred, whitewashed edges, and the border keeps the image very crisp and clean.

[Cursed]

Well...

 

I started by using a sky of another image and using colour balance to give it pink and purple tones, I then added 2 new layers, on with a pink tint and one with a purple tint. Then I found an image of the moon and cropped, resized and blurred it to my liking. I then used another image to replace the water, using the colour balance tool, a feathered black layer and a slight gradiant to make it look more reflective. i then simply added more saturation and changed the hue a little on the sand, I desaturated the hills in the background. I added a new layer with lens flare, desaturated, blurred it then changed the layer style to Colour Dodge. I then created a new layer and used 2 palm tree brushes and put on a black outer glow, and cut out 2 birds and coloured them to give a silohette effect. I then did a black 1 pixel stroke and a white inner glow on a new layer. Added the words "Vice City" in Rage italic white a pink 2px stroke and a black outer glow and drop shadow... I used the burn and dodge toool in differant places and curves, then it was complete

 

Thanks for the good comments

 

Cursed

[Hollaz]

I love the blurred, whitewashed edges, and the border keeps the image very crisp and clean.

Reversed for me. I don't like it. The image is good tho, but you ruined it by putting this light cocaine on it.