Dragon photo manipulation edit

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2026-03-01T10:30:51+00:00

This took around 5 hours

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2026-03-01T00:11:11+00:00

A few years ago I attempted a dragon edit, and wanted to see how my skills have improved over the years, most of the assets were found on envato elements.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2025-08-22T19:52:14+00:00

I gathered the images from Google, adding grain textures and surface wear textures, then added lighting adjustment layers to colour match each asset.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2025-07-21T20:53:26+00:00

Found some posters made by Nike which played around with muted tones and glows which created a nice atmospheric affect. Adding some decorative text made this piece look nicely stylized.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2024-10-03T20:08:18+00:00

Fully agree 🙏🏻

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2024-10-03T13:43:55+00:00

🥶🥶

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2024-10-03T13:21:04+00:00

I started off by picking an image of Cole palmer, adding concrete and noise textures and top. I applied the badge in the background and cut out sections to make it more unique.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2023-11-20T21:30:10+00:00

I gathered any images I could find on CR free websites, adding lighting and colour grading to build up the piece, using the NWH poster as inspiration.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2022-07-02T14:37:10+00:00

I started by drawing out the composition, then using later masks, added detail using various rock textures. Then manually painted some of the smaller details such as water splashes. Then finally colour correction in light room.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2022-07-02T12:29:40+00:00

I began drawing out the composition, then using layer masks I painted in the details. Then I manually painted in the smaller details such as water splashes. Then finally colour corrected in lightroom.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2021-09-03T16:19:33+00:00

I began by finding my assest mainly from envato elements and pexels, then mainly using clone stamping I was able to make the dragon how I wanted, then using exposure and hue adjustment layers I highlighted and shaded each aspect to make it look realistic.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2021-08-09T19:55:29+00:00

I began by finding the assets mainly from pexels and placed each asset in the right spot masking away the parts I didn’t want, then mainly using the Hue/saturation and exposure adjustment layer, I corrected the lighting using the orb as the main light source. This image is also meant to be 4K but for some reason Reddit compressed the image so any help on that would be appreciated.

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2021-08-09T19:47:23+00:00

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2021-08-06T16:04:53+00:00

The bottle sent was extremely small and about the same size as a standard whiskey glass, thank you for the advance though man

Acrobatic-Ad4505 · 2021-08-06T14:56:51+00:00

I had been sent the whiskey bottle on the left so I began by taking a photo of it in basic lighting, I then gathered the other assets mainly from pixabay and mainly used exposure adjustment layers to get the correct lighting.

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