Whew!!! This is a combination of 7 images. I took about 3 hours to plan the image in my head, another 2 hours to photograph everything in the same light and right composition. Another 4 hours to put it all together. I am very pleased it turned out how I imagined it.
This is the list of images used for this image.
- Cupids body and half bow
- Cupids legs in position
- Cupids tail (only because I couldn't fit it into one of the above shots)
- Cupids arrow
- Cupids wings
- Hearts
- Sky
I cut everything out and then started merging. ie. Cupids body, legs and tail and wings. I then duplicated is bow and positioned it correctly.
All images were placed together as one and arranged as seen.
The hearts were duplicated and resized and positioned.
The arrow was duplicated and a part motion blur added.
Lighting and colour was then corrected both individually and as one.
I hope someone likes it.
In answer to one of the comments this image took 54 layers and 30 masks.
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This was one of my favorites. Great job! My only suggestion would have been to avoid having the main subject toward the right side of the image instead of dead center since he is facing left.
LOL! A little "too" cheesy for my tastes, the photoshopping could have been better around cupid too, to make him look more a part of the picture and not just pasted on.
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