Learn how to increase the quality of the regular photo and make it more artistic by using Photo shop tools, settings and photo manipulation skills.

 

  • Click "Open Image".
  • Add several Guide lines to correct perspective an horizon line.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • Go to Edit > Transform > Distort. You may correct perspective in the previous camera row plug -in, but I find Distort transformation way easier.
  • Move corner point and try to combine vertical and horizontal objects(building edge or fountain barrier, for example) with guide lines.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • After transformation, you may make the image smaller without losing quality and sharpening.

  • In order to make the photo more impressive, we will place clouds from different photo. I've used this picture. Insert clouds image and make it invisible temporary.

  • To load selection for the sky area, go to Select > Color Range.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • Click with eyedropper in the light sky area.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • You should have selected white area.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • Go to Select > Refine Edge. Apply following settings. These settings will work correctly for the image size around 1000 px by high and resolution 72px/inch.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • Return to the clouds layer, duplicate it.
  • Keep selection, make the second clouds layer duplicate visible and layer mask to it.
  • You should have somethinke like on screen shot below.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • Make visible second clouds layer.
  • Apply Multiply Blending Mode and Opacity 20%.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • Merge both of clouds layers, add layer mask to merged layer and fill it with linear black and white gradient like on the example below:

Photo retouching tips and tricks

  • Select all created layers and duplicate them. Merge duplicated layers. And apply Gaussian Blur to merged layer - 30 - 40px.
  • Then apply Soft Light Blending Mode to the blurred layer and Opacity 40%.

Photo retouching tips and tricks

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