Lose Weight This Xmas...
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Being the handyman I am I put in some new floorboards and a new paint job. Hue and saturation were played with and some coal was put in the fireplace.
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Hue/sat and dodge/burn for shadows.
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Made the curtain blow with liquify. Painted the crumbs on the plate. Created a little calendar for a bit of atmosphere and a time reference.
P.S. I know over the years the alcohol would have evaporated but I like the masking job so I left it in : )
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Cobwebs were from a great free brush collection called "inobscuro_spiders.abr". I think the site was: http://getbrushes.com/photoshop/nature/in-obscuro-spider-web-brushes.php
Painted in some haze.
final result

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