The Tower Final - somehow still standing

The above image represents the starting image for "The Tower", which is approaching the conclusion of the AI generated Tarot Card series that I've been putting together over the last few months.

It's the longest single project that I've done when it comes to artwork, and boy am I glad that I am nearly at the very end of the collection.

There will be quite a few modifications to the image as I prepare it for the final.

First, I need to ensure that the vingette and colour, tone, saturation and everything else matches with the rest of the cards.

This is achieved via a camera raw filter, and didn't take very long to execute at all. As I write this, I'm waiting for my vehicle to be repaired, and I thought, for a moment that Photoshop wasn't running the camera raw filter at all, making me really impressed with the M2 chip in my laptop.

That's another story, though; instead, have another image:

There seems to be a fireball at the top which feels out of place, so I am going to remove that, while trying to continue to respect the existing vignette which I've added

When you're working on an image like this, it is probably far wiser to modify the image, then do the colour corrections, because you might then be persuaded, or have the desire to make more modifications after the fact.

I opted to use a combination of the brush tool to paint this component out of the image, along with the stamp tool. I'm pretty happy with the overall, cleaner result.

The benefit of this is that there doesn't need to be much change made to the rest of the image to adapt for this change.

While our feeble human eyes would probably expect the background to be a bit lighter than that; I disagree, on the basis of that's in the background, the lightning is in the foreground.