Guardians
A new approach for me – Thought I would try some fantasy matte work.
This is a collaboration effort where Susan Davies provided the base image of Castell Coch and Rose Moxon kindly created the 3D dragons that I used in this composition. Thank you both – I couldn’t have created this without you guys.
I am quite pleased with the result I reached here – and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it.
I have prepared a step by step guide to how I got this effect, and you can read it here
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Jen Cannella
Amazing job, all three of you!
Robert Elliott
Brilliant work Julie !!!
StacyLee
Congrats to all 3 of you! It looks great!
coffeetea
what a creation!! a lot job, i see here. well done.
TrEaSuReDiMaGeS
Absolutely Superb Juls!!! Wow it’s such an amazing and beautiful fantasy imagetoo!!! Well done you :-)
TrEaSuReDiMaGeS
Congratsssssssss to Susan and Rose as well Brilliant ART work everyone!! :-)
frogster
Very wonderful image Julie
Dean Warwick
Terrific image!
Robert Mullner
Fantasy tastical…Julie..I know that’s not a word…Great work.
vonne
Love this Julie!
SnowDog
Great work !!! very impressive!
AlienVisitor
Very nice ladies.Great collab. work.
AV
Patricia L. Ba...
Wonderful work everyone. I want to go to Pern.
Robin Webster
Wow! Fabulous!
Heather Rivet...
outstanding
Dave Moilanen
This is fantastic Julie!! I thought for a moment that I was in a video game!! Awesome!!
Antanas
fantasttic job, amazing view
Helene Kippert
Wow this is awesome Julie – well done to all three of you!
JayVee
Wow, Wonderful creation. You’ve put alot of work in it but the endresult is great.
gordontant
Woah, this is a cool image, you ladies have outdone yourselves on this one. the shadows, and light then I see the dragon…
susan davies
thanks for working so hard on this jul, as always its such a pleasure doing a collab with you as you are always so gracious, the end result is amazing and i am so pleased that i made a contribution to it, well done dear friend loves ya suexx
wdavies285
wow wow wow
fantastic julie well done all three
RichardV
Great fantasy work. Well done to all involved..
ferndesign
great work love the greens in this
SkyFox
Stunning, love the T’s as well!
dazgwen
Absolutely stunning work guys and Julie you have put it altogether perfectly well done!!
InTheMaking
Luv it Mam – turned out great
Julie Langford
Thanks all for your great comments on this one
ozczecho
Stellar job…great collaboration…..beautiful art.
Rhana Griffin
Julie, I love everything about this image. But what I love most of all is that you took the time to share the creative process behind it. I read your journal earlier today and cant wait to put what I learnt there into practice. Thankyou so much!!!
Sean Farragher
awesome work,,,
davidmilne
Excellent work,congrats!
cynthiab
brilliant work Julie love fantasy work and have read how you have made this
off to look for my castle photograph
Trace Lowe
Fantastic!!!!
kcranmer
OMG way to cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rose Moxon
this is wonderful!
Faizan Qureshi
Wow Julie, this is absolutely amazing… it really speaks for itself!! I can see how much time you have spent on this!
Julie Langford
Thanks Everyone, and especially you Rose – couldnt have finished this off without your help.
Melanie Dooley
WOW Julie, thanks for sharing. That’s very generous of you.
What an inspiration. I can only hope to produce images like this – I’ll give it a go though!!
Tom Gomez
Really imaginative work. Love it …
Joyce Dickens,...
Awesome collaberation piece; Congratulations to all three very talented artists! This is incredible!!!
Walter Colvin
Fantastic Image Julie
Cathleen Taraw...
Fantastic and mystical.
geraint
Great work
Jacky
Really cool:)) beautiful work !
DawsonImages
Ominous and wonderful
Emma Anderson
Great!
Rhonda Fulks
Very creative, looks mystical!
Per E. Gunnarsen
Fantastic work!
Alyson Pearson
very cool!
cdwork
Missed this because I was away! Stunning work of art!
Ravenor
Wow!!!!! Simply awesome work of art…
Kimberly Palmer
Wow, this is very cool!
jaffa
great start to a new genre, lovely work.
SuliHawk
Fantastic, great perspective and colors. Love the dragons.
dairygirl08
this is excellant work, love it
MrFordy
Awesome job, does something like this take hours or days to do?
Julie Langford
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The hardest part is the second step – removal of the trees with cloning and then painting back in detail with small brushes – This took about 18 hours total, over four days.
cheerishables
Oh Julie, this is sensational!!!!! Gorgeous. This has such visual impact!
Colin Cartwright
Interesting and productive collaboration. I like the eerie green ethereal appearence.
Reminds me of one of my favourite comedy films, Terry Gilliam’s ‘Jabberwocky.’
Julie Langford
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Thats a great film Colin – God I havent seen that in years – may see if I can track it down in DVD
Colin Cartwright
Yes I got mine on ebay, for a couple of quid!
Has that comic genius, Max Wall, as king. And lots of other great old British comedy actors.
Chinedu Diala
wow…great! Thanks for th tutorial!!!
richiedean
Simply superb … love the jaunty angles of the castle walls ….
ebonyjane
i love this tarific work
nice job
zacco
very well done
TFFDavid
Fantastic work.
TIMKIELY
brillant work , well done
billyboy
... and here’s another one I don’t know how I missed. I totally love what you’ve done with this and read your step-by-step on how you got there. You say only 7 months ago you were new to photography and PS? You, Julie, are an amazing person.
kenmo
Fantastic work….
drjones
awesome work and great tutorial!!
syd baker
Nicely done, and I read your tutorial as well, so generous to share your insights and techniques!
Scott d'Almeida
brilliant
Shaun Whiteman 17 days ago
Julie this is beautiful, wonderful colours and details!!! It should be on the cover of a fantasy book!!
MuscularTeeth
13 days ago
excellent work here Julie !