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April 30, 2014 | Jenny Le | Photo Effects
Final Image
Step 1
Create a new document with size of 1791×1188 px and fill it with white.
Open landscape stock. Use Move Tool (V) to drag the landscape into our
white canvas:
Step 2
In this step we’ll remove some details of the landscape at foreground and
lower areas. On this layer, use Lasso Tool to make a selection for one of
indicated areas as shown below:
Go to Edit > Fill > Content-Aware:
Step 3
Continue to make selections for other areas and apply this tool. The tip for
it is to use small selection (don’t choose a large area, you might get a
result of unwanted details). Here is my result:
Step 4
To change the contrast and color of the landscape, I used Gradient Overlay
effect. Double click landscape layer, choose Gradient Overlay:
Step 5
I used an adjustment layer to add some red to the scene. On landscape
layer, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance:
Active Brush Tool (B). On Color Balance layer mask use soft black brush
with very low opacity (10-15%) to erase lower part and small part at the left
of the scene. You can see how I did it on layer mask and result on picture:
Step 6
Open sky stock. Use Retangular Marquee Tool to choose sky part then
place it at the top of our main picture. Go to Edit > Transform > Flip
Horizontal:
Step 7
Click the second button at the bottom of Layer Pallete to add mask to this
layer. Use soft black brush to remove rough edges of the sky and blend it
with the scene:
Step 8
I used an adjustment layer with Clipping Mask to brighten the sky. Go to
Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves:
Step 9
Extract waterfall from original stock and position it at the top of the right
mountain:
Change the mode to Screen 100%:
Step 10
I used a Curves layer (Clipping Mask) to darken the waterfall:
On Curves layer mask use soft black brush to erase the top left of the
waterfall to match the lightness with the scene:
Step 11
Cut out the branches 1 and place it at the bottom left of the pic:
Step 12
To add light to the branches, I used Inner Shadow effect. Double click this
layer, choose Blending Options:
Step 13
Go to Filter > Blur > Gassian Blur and pick radius as 4 px:
Step 14
I used a Color Balance layer (Clipping Mask) to change color of the
branches:
Step 15
Add a Hue/Saturation layer to this one:
Step 16
I made a Curves layer to darken the branches:
Step 17
Isolate branches 2 and place it at the bottom right of the pic:
Step 18
I used Hue/Saturation to reduce the saturation of the branches:
Step 19
Add a Curves layer to darken the branches:
On Curves layer mask use brush to reduce the dark on some leaves:
Step 20
Use Inner Shadow effect to add yellow light to the branches:
Here is result:
Step 21
Apply Gassian Blur with 4 px for this layer:
Step 22
Add branches 3 to the top right of the pic:
Step 23
I used Color Balance for these branches:
Step 24
Apply Inner Shadow effect for branches 3 layer:
Step 25
Apply Gassian Blur with 4 px for these branches:
Step 26
Take the tower and place it at the center section of the pic:
Take Dodge and Burn Tool with Midtones Range, Exposure about 10-15% to
retouch light and shadow of the tower. You can see how I did it on layer
mask and result on picture:
Step 31
Make a Channel Mixer layer on the top:
Use brush to erase the parts shown on layer mask below:
Step 32
Add a Gradient Map layer to the top of layers:
Lower opacity of this Gradient Map layer to 20%:
Step 33
Make a Photo Filter layer to add some green to the scene:
Fill this selection with black (Edit >Fill or Shift+F5). Flip this shadow
vertically (Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical) and place it under the tower
bottom. Use Cmd/Ctrl+T to transform this shadow as shown below:
Lower opacity to 30% and apply Gassian Blur with 4 px for it:
Add layer mask to this layer and erase the top and bottom of this shadow: