First recreation – Wedding picture

Original picture I am recreatingI pasted my chosen photo out of all my shots into Photoshop. Trying to recreate this look will be hard and so I am playing around with different effects. The first effect I am adding to my picture is brightness and contrast to try and get the darkness and shadows like the original picture.

Then I used an effect called diffuse glow to give my picture a bit of a glow round the edges of me like on the original.

Then I used an effect called curves to make my picture darker in certain areas like the original.

Then I placed the original picture underneath my recreation.

I did this so that I could then rub out bits of my recreated picture to reveal the rays of light from the original picture so that it looks more like the original.

Then I used the rubber tool to carry out rubbing around my recreation to reveal the old picture underneath. At this stage I have left in more of my recreation and just rubbed away to show some of the rays of light in the original. I've done this because I think recreation background looks good anyway and I don’t need to get rid of it. In the original picture there is a bit of

glow. I used the effect Guassian blur to give this effect on my picture.

To build up my glow effect I used the effect lens blur to the whole picture.

Then I placed the recreated picture onto the same sheet with the original picture and put it underneath the original then rotated it so that it gave my finished picture the mirroring effect I wanted.