The making of Highway to heaven, step by step...

original image

step 1 of 11

Masked the edges

step 2 of 11

Copied layer and adjusted with warp also applied a layer mask

step 3 of 11

Same with the third part of the road

step 4 of 11

Masked the plants

step 5 of 11

Added the plants to my design and adjusted with warp

step 6 of 11

This way I created a big bush

step 7 of 11

Reconstructed the missing edges with the clone stamp

step 8 of 11

With the pen tool, added branches to the tree trunk

step 9 of 11

Masked the gate...this took me forever!

step 10 of 11

Cut and pasted one door and made it look opened using distortion

step 11 of 11

adjusted the gate to the road, then added a shadow to it.

final result