Once again, I've gone mad with photoshop. haha. There was a lot of playing around with this one, so again, I didn't get to writing down my steps that I did. I did a lot of burning, dodging, duplicating, changing layer options, beveled it a few times...for the colors, i used a basic brush and put those layers on "color" and I did a lot of transforming and shifting the angle of the actual photo..As for the duck, I did a simple select from the photo i took last weekend of three ducks near the beach and dragged him into the photo, changed his coloring with image>adjustments>hue and saturation. ..uh, yea..the end?
ooohhh yeaaa, i cropped it and did a layer of render>clouds and changed some blending options to get a foggy effect near the beginning of all this madness XD