Fortuna Project

For this project i used images which represent the fortune.

For the first image I took a picture of my brother playing cards. I cropped my brother ,the cards, and the table with chips and refined the edges after which I blended it in with the sky background. At first the sky was blue but than I changed it to be dark in order to give it the night sceene. I changed the Hue/Saturation of the background layer in order to get the desired color of the sky. I blended the layer of my brother and filtered the layer in order to give it the darker look because his bright  red shirt was getting too much attention. Behind him I added four aces which represent his hand. Four aces were transformed and resized in order to fir it. I took a photo of him looking up at the sky in order to express that he is thinking about the money he is going to make with his luck but also he is looking up in the sky in order to thank the Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. For the money I used Serbian Dinars. I scanned the money and duplicated one layer until I had 56 different layers in order to have 56 different bills. Every money layer was resized and filtered with distort and twirl in order to give it the motion look.

For the second image I used the photo of an Christian Orthodox icon Sveta Petka which I scanned . I cropped out the figure and edited her in order to remove her Christian theme. I removed the cross which she was holding in her right hand. I filtered this layer with artistic cutout in order to gain the desired look for the goddess. In order to completely remove the cross from her hand and fix her hand up I used the clone tool. I used the sample color from an icon in order to get the background color for this project. I removed the saints halo and added four king cards. Since men are the one's known for playing cards and gambeling I decited to used cards of kings. The four cards layer was also filtered with artistic cutout in order to match the Fortuna. The cards and money which are pictured in the project represent the chance. I added the serbian money which was also pictured in the previous photo.I had eight different money layers. I resized money layers and gave it the motion look with the distort/twirl filer. Money layers were also filtered with artistic cutout in order to match the goddess and cards.Money was also transformed in order to get the desired angle to make it look like its flying out of the bowl with the eyes. The immage was flattened and curves were edited in order to get the final desired look.