Challenge 15 - How Did You.. Do That?

Here's my image:




Original image:



1. In Photoshop, to brighten the base I duplicated the image twice and set the first layer to soft light and the top layer to screen.

2. Then I cut out BB-8 using the PS select and mask function. I output BB-8 on a new layer and then created a layer below that which I filled with blue.

3. I created a new empty layer above BB-8 and on this layer I used the color picker tool to select the most prominent color of different sections of the image. I adjusted the color by changing it brightness to 100 (That is B in the HSB section of the colorpicker). In some cases I also increased the saturation (S).



4. I used the magnetic lasso tool to select that part of the image, and then I filled the selection with that color. I repeated these steps until I had selected and colored each part of the image.

5. I blurred the layer using gaussian blur set to a radius of about 2.5.



6. Then I set the layer to soft light at 100% opacity. I duplicated the layer again and set also set it to soft light at 72% opacity.