And here is the bird image that I found on the web and used. I cut out the bird from the image, adjusted curves, hue-saturation and duplicated the levels. The blending mode of the duplicate layer was changed to overlay to emphasize the dark colors of the bird.
The selected bird had parts of it cut-out to fit into my scene, I did that by bringing the selected bird into my scene over my image, reduced its opacity and made cut-outs where needed, like behind cage bars, door etc.
On the left, you can see the window parts cut-out to suite the scene and adjusted in terms of opacity transformation and blending mode (Hard Light).
This is the original image that I got from the web to use as a background for my scene, it’s adjusted as seen in the one below it.
The background had an adjustment in its hue-saturation to give a cold feel, rather than a warm one as in the original, then a diffuse glow filter was added to it to imply the effect that there is fog and mist in the place which again is all essential for making such modes.
A grunge dirt texture was then added to the overall scene to give it a bit of darkness, sadness and old effect.
This is the final image of the process, I hope this “making of” was helpful to some of you. Thank you for giving the time to read this through.
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