Decaying London by Tanglimara

2D • Urban/Cityscape • posted on Jul 29, 2008

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I must say a huge thanks again to everyone who favourited my last image 'Tranquil Evening' as it got me to 20th in this weeks 'Favourites Image' Art Chart ... so THANK YOU !!!! Todays upload is something new for me as everything was done in Photoshop. It is made up of parts of 14 different photographs, 38 layers and took me 3 days to complete. I did this after seeing some fantastic 2D artwork on 3dtotal.com. The idea behind this one was to take an image of the inside of the busy London Museum and to place it in the future after all human life has ceased. There are a couple of images on 3dtotal.com that used the same base image for a competition and is also where my inspiration came from. I removed all the people and displays from the museum via the 'eraser' and 'clone stamp' tools, demolished some of the walls, windows and roof, again via the 'eraser' tool as well as manually painting in the cracks to the structure and ageing the brickwork. I applied the same technique to the cathedral in the background and also added Big Ben. Next up was to take a picture of a London bus, remove the driver, passengers, roof and some of the windows as well as smashing the remaining windows and aging the paintwork. The same was done with the abandoned car which I flipped onto its roof and part buried in some rubble. The sky was created by cloning and overlaying parts of some photographs of mine and fiddling with the brightness and saturation levels. Foliage was then added by cloning plants, branches and a tree from numerous other photographs. Every layer was then transformed and skewed in order to get the overall perspective correct. Finally I rendered the lighting on everything to throw light onto the far end of the museum. Enjoy ... Tony :-)

Comments (184)

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daffodilbaggins

8:59AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

WOW!! Sakes o'mighty, Tony! You did some real WORK here, didn't you! The results are nothing short of fantastic--this piece is really well done, and you should be proud of it! Congrats!

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NekhbetSun

9:01AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

This is sooo darn cool ! ....and I loved reading the step-by-step process...awesome awesome image ! wow

YorkBerlin

9:31AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

very nice image & fantastic work rating 5+ greetings York Made in Berlin

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deathwisp

9:33AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

This is beautiful!

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pspworkshop

9:40AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

Wauwwwwwwww amazing work

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JohnDelaquiox

9:42AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

fantastic scene very dramatic

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kleinhoon

10:24AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

Wow, excellent photo manipulation, great job!!

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MagikUnicorn

11:59AM | Wed, 30 July 2008

Thats AWESOME Really fantastic work Tony!! WOWW

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Darkwish

12:32PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

I like this one! EXT pic!

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priss117

1:01PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

wow this is a maserpiece!!!!!!!!

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Fidelity2

1:07PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

Your image is very well done. 5+.

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Jay-el-Jay

1:23PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

An ambitious piece of work very well done.

3dgb

4:14PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

Absolutely amazing. The angle that you used really brought out the picture.

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MarciaGomes

6:25PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

FANTÁSTICO TRABALHO FICOU PERFEITO TODOS OS DETALHES,INCRIVEL ILUMINAÇÃO,UMA CRIAÇÃO MAGNIFICA.+++++++++5 MEUS PARABÉNS PELO ARTCHART VOCÊ MERECE.

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Tuggy

6:38PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

The only word that comes to mind when I see this image is WOW!!!!Beautiful..Jen

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rikomortis

6:53PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

fantastic

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AutumnMist55

9:31PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

wow this is fantastic work!!!

justme1212

10:05PM | Wed, 30 July 2008

Fantastic job no words to describe this Master piece

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marcopolinski

12:17AM | Thu, 31 July 2008

An intricate, complicated scene that must have required an appreciable emotional, mental and physical investment. The level of detail is awesome. The result astounding. Excellent job Tony!!

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timtripp

8:47AM | Thu, 31 July 2008

marvelous!

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giareg

5:06PM | Thu, 31 July 2008

Excellent post atomic work!!!

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SaintFox

1:46AM | Fri, 01 August 2008

Pure perfection, worth every single minute you've spent to create this masterpiece!

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shutterbugs

1:57AM | Fri, 01 August 2008

A work of love Tony. All done in photoshop?? That must have been very involving! Excellent composition with lots of details!

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artaddict2

4:23AM | Fri, 01 August 2008

I'd love to try to do amazing stuff like this if you can do it with a number of different photos, I just wouldn't have a clue where to start. and 3 days to complete Wow! terrific results, fantastic piece of work !

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