The making of "Kaptein Rødskjegg og havets flamme"

This is a step by step process and I will try to explain what I did on each step.

The picture is a poster for their upcoming show this summer.

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This is the first picture and how it was shot.

Added another shot and cut away the half top of the picture to get the legs in place.

Retouched the background, the hat, the hands etc. and decreased the contrast and saturation.

I used the Rectangular Marquee Tool and made a selection that looked like a pier or something and added a couple of colors.

Then I added a wooden floor texture, distorted it to make it match the perspective and changed the blend mode to Soft Light.

New background with the blend mode Hard Light and masked out the guys.

Brought in some more stuff.

I cut out the hands from another shot and put them in place based on the next step.

The book was shot separately and brought in.

On the three next pictures I added different stuff. The water and fire (stock) was shot on a black background and I changed the blend mode to Screen. The rest is just cut out and the cloud and fog is made using cloud and fog brushes.

Changed the colors, darkened some parts.

Added the "effect" I usually do on this kind of images. That process it to much to write about, but it's mainly dodge and burn, sharpen, High pass filter and so on.

Changed the colors, darkened some parts, added a vignette and finished.