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I just found this very old photo of Peggy’s Cove,this was taken on Mariners World about 200 years ago.
Because of the violent storms generated by Nova Moon,it requires two lighthouses.
They do say except for the backdrop of the Scotia Mountains and the Nova Moon,this could be the original Earthly scene.

This image now appears in Jeff Wignall’s book Winning Digital Photo Contests*

Having won Digital Photo of the Month…at the definitive photo site*
Digital Image Cafe

I used Lucindawinds images “Tranquility” and “The Reason for Lighthouses”.

Alienvisitor’s Imagi – Nation

I went to Lucindawinds page and viewed her art,the two I picked out were…………….

“Tranquility” and “The Reason for Lighthouses”.

I then contacted her,got permission to use them and had her email high res. images.
She also gave me ownership of said images,to use in any creations.

In this I used two photos, a render, 2 models creations, a number of layers and filters.
Software used Photoshop,Infinity-D,Artmatic Voyager.

In Photoshop…

I put both photos on transparent layers,In Tranquility I erased the most of the sky,in Lighthouses I removed everything but the rocks.

I dragged the rock layer onto the Tranquility image and positioned it in the lower quadrant.
Then I took a good look and saw in my minds eye what I needed for a backdrop and also the colors.

Leaving the image on the right side of the screen,I opened my 3D rendering program Artmatic Voyager ( this is a Mac only program)
I then spent about 4 hours building and rendering an Alien Background.

I always render at the highest possible resolution and saving as a PICT file (on my machine that can take up to 6-7 hours,this one took 2 hours.)

Closing the Artmatic program and reopening the render in Photoshop,I then dragged it onto the transparent layer.

Now I needed lighthouses and I didn’t want to use the one in Lu’s image.
Needed something a bit more alien.

So I opened Infinity-D,and built myself 2 lighthouses,saving as psd transparent files.

Back in Photoshop I dragged and positioned both lighthouse layers onto the Tranquility photo.

Then feathered and cloned all the edges of all layers until they were blended to my satisfaction.

I then opened my filters and chose the “Old Photo Color” filter,tweeked,painted,erased the image then set the filter.

The filters I use are nik Color Efex Pro.

It still needed something…FOG..

Opened a “Graduated Fog” filter adding just a little fog with the paint brush on the horizon,this also goes aways to hiding any harsh edges in that area.

Almost done…

Added a bit of brilliance to the image.

Thats it and well worth the effort…another fine alien creation.

“May you always create well and prosper”

Featured in…….*

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David (AV)