Reign of serenity, Work-flow

"Reign of serenity", one of my favorites that I want to explain the work-flow:

   1.Background is one of my Zoom-Work captures has taken from the picture above on laptop LCD using a tripod.

   2. Importing taken image to CS5 in TIF 16 bit format.

   3. Applying a rotation.

   4.Then a crop.

   5. And non linear resizing to 4700*3000 pixel.

   6. Creating a misty Sun by Some low opacity soft brushes in different sizes. 

   7. These two lovely birds come from a picture of my friend "Dorel F." in this link:

(Click here)

   8. actually the right flying bird was duplicated and rotated to approach a lovely flight together!! you can see completed layers by now.

9. Recently in my works I usually use a texture for abstraction in details & atmosphere.  next step is using this texture photo.

   10. For a better result I decreased the layer opacity to 9%.

   11.The last step, applying a Levels adjustment layer; in this layer, for best performance, I did some changes in "RGB", "Red", "Green" & "Blue" channels:

   12. In RGB Channel.

   13. In Red channel.

   14. In Green channel.

   15. And in Blue channel.

That's All and the final result: