Learn how to create fairy winter photo manipulation with the crescent above the clouds, shiny icicles and glow effects. You may get .psd* file of "Magic Christmas" and 3D Moon shape Photoshop tutorial by making a payment (attn.(!)- the layers with the original stock pictures are watermarked). Put the tutorial title in "Add special instructions to seller" line of PayPal and it will be sent to you shortly.
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- Download Moon shape(image created with the Photoshop tools)
- Icicles - Sergei Furtcev
- Cloud 1(Ruslan Olinchuk), Cloud 2(Image*After), Cloud 3(Sergei Perov)
- Stars - Yuriy Mazur
- Building - Image*After
- Bokeh - Regularjane
- Landscape 1 - Anders Bjerré Pedersen
- Landscape 2 - author Sundstrom(nickname)
Used images:
- Create a new Photoshop document, adjust resolution - 180px/inch, 2000px height and 1600px width. You may choose different size, but some tutorial settings are depending of image size and resolution.
- Insert Mountings landscape to the top part of the image.
- Correct Selective Colors adjustments. I used adjustments layers to correct different layers settings, such as Selective Colors, Levels, Hue/Saturation, etc... You may find how to use adjustments layers here or just change image/layer settings in the section of Photoshop: Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, etc... So, in order to apply adjustments from screen shot below, go to Image > Adjustments > Selective Color.
- Download landscape image for the bottom part of landscape.
- You may see wire lines. In order to delete them, create a new empty layer and draw lanes above the black lines, use regular round brush with the Shift key to make lines straight:
- Load selection for the lines layer, then you make them invisible or delete.
- Return to the original landscape layer, go to Edit > Fill > Content Aware
- Process the top edge of the layer with the soft Eraser Tool to create smooth connection with the mountains image.
- Now you may merge both layers.
- Make active Quick Mask Mode, click icon
, go to Edit > Fill > Black color, you should get red masked area. - Choose regular white round soft brush and create silhouette like on the image below, use large soft brush for the front areas.
- Release the Quick Mask Mode. You should get selected area like on the image below:
- Correct levels of selected area, Image > Adjustments > Levels:
- Create a new layer and fill selected area from previous step with white color. Make this layer invisible, we will use it in future steps:
- Make Quick Mode Mask active again .
- Fill Mask with the black and white gradient (white should be in the top part).
- Release Quick Mask to get top part selected.
- Apply these levels settings for selected area.
- Return to the white spot layer. Make it visible for now.
- Apply Dissolve Blending Mode to this layer and Opacity 50%.
- Merge this layer with the new empty layer and apply Overlay Blending mode to it.
- Correct Opacity of this layer to make white dots less visible, around 15-20%.
- Erase red shaded area of the dots with the soft Eraser tool.
- Insert bokeh image.
- Apply Screen Blending Mode to this layer.
- Add Layer Mask and erase Mountains area.
- Correct Levels of the bokeh layer:
- Insert Castle image, separate it from background.
- Activate Quick Mask Mode.
- Fill it with black and white gradient(white color on the right side) .
- Release Quick Mask Mode, you should have selected the bottom right corner of the building.
- Apply Levels setting to the selected area of the building:
- Add Gradient Map Adjustment layer to the castle image, choose it from drop down menu after clicking the icon
- Right click to Gradient Map adjustment layer and choose "Create clipping Mask". Apply Opacity 88% to the adjustment layer.
- Use these colors for the Gradient Map:
