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Description
the little boat sailed smoothly over the lake towards the jetty, she was finally coming home, but why so quiet?

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Stock Credits
Clock 1 by ~m-n-s
PowerHouse by ~phookabooka
Castle and Reflection-stock by ~ FeA-OLoReA
bird brush set by ~pureanodyne
Randomness88 by ~pdtnc-stock
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time: phew, erm, about 6 hours?
process: iv had this idea in my head for a few days now. i knew what i wanted but finding the right images was hard at first.
i browsed dA until i had found a substantial amount of castle images, which i then began to line up in Adobe Elements to try and find a pleasing composition. originally i had * gmtb-stock s Arundel_castle3 on the line up to but somehow i felt it didnt quite fit. i cropped the image and began to blend the two buildings together.
next i began to work on the sky. id seen ~pdtnc-stock 's Randomness88 earlier and knew it was the kind of dramatic brooding sky i wanted to cover the castle. however the blue just didnt fit the sunset lighting id given the building so i browsed my own files and found an image id taken this winter and i loved beautiful lighting and the clouds. however , it just didnt look real! so i simply erased some of my sky to allow some of ~pdtnc-stock s blue sky to show through.
the building still didnt look quite right though, they didnt quite match up so i did some more cloning and blending until i was satifyed.
after perfecting the sky blending with the building i added a few birds thanks to ~pureanodyne and i was happy.
then i duplicated, flipped, blurred, cloned, transformed, copied and pasted and rippled to create the reflection.

i really wanted to add a figure to this but i just couldnt find the right stock in the right resoloution n stuff so i just left it. never know, maybe i'l come back to it one day......

the end
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thank you to everyone who has taken the time to view and comment
every single on is throughly appreciated : )

edit 03/05/05: sorry for the reappearence in your inbox. i just added some more ripple like some of you suggested. better?

Description
the little boat sailed smoothly over the lake towards the jetty, she was finally coming home, but why so quiet?

____________________________________

Stock Credits
Clock 1 by ~m-n-s
PowerHouse by ~phookabooka
Castle and Reflection-stock by ~ FeA-OLoReA
bird brush set by ~pureanodyne
Randomness88 by ~pdtnc-stock
____________________________________

time: phew, erm, about 6 hours?
process: iv had this idea in my head for a few days now. i knew what i wanted but finding the right images was hard at first.
i browsed dA until i had found a substantial amount of castle images, which i then began to line up in Adobe Elements to try and find a pleasing composition. originally i had * gmtb-stock s Arundel_castle3 on the line up to but somehow i felt it didnt quite fit. i cropped the image and began to blend the two buildings together.
next i began to work on the sky. id seen ~pdtnc-stock 's Randomness88 earlier and knew it was the kind of dramatic brooding sky i wanted to cover the castle. however the blue just didnt fit the sunset lighting id given the building so i browsed my own files and found an image id taken this winter and i loved beautiful lighting and the clouds. however , it just didnt look real! so i simply erased some of my sky to allow some of ~pdtnc-stock s blue sky to show through.
the building still didnt look quite right though, they didnt quite match up so i did some more cloning and blending until i was satifyed.
after perfecting the sky blending with the building i added a few birds thanks to ~pureanodyne and i was happy.
then i duplicated, flipped, blurred, cloned, transformed, copied and pasted and rippled to create the reflection.

i really wanted to add a figure to this but i just couldnt find the right stock in the right resoloution n stuff so i just left it. never know, maybe i'l come back to it one day......

the end
________________________________________ _______

thank you to everyone who has taken the time to view and comment
every single on is throughly appreciated : )

edit 03/05/05: sorry for the reappearence in your inbox. i just added some more ripple like some of you suggested. better?