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". Photoshop tutorial by making a payment. Put the tutorial title in "Add special instructions to seller" line of PayPal and it will be sent to you shortly.
- Here is result of all previous actions:
- Now you may merge all created layer and duplicate merged layer.
- Make active duplicated layer, go to Image > Auto Contrast.
- Apply Opacity 85% to this layer.
- Add Layer Mask and fill it wit the black and white gradient(whit color in the bottom part).
- Insert Moon image.
- Correct Levels and Color Balance for the Moon shape.
- Duplicate Moon Layer, apply Fill = 0% and apply inner shadow layer style effect.
- Apply these setting for inner shadow effect:
- Make Moon layers invisible for a while.
- Go to Select > Select All.
- Go to Edit > Copy Merged.
- Create empty layer above the Moon layers and paste merged background.
- Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur 10-18px.
- Go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, Increase Saturation a bit.
- Correct levels for this layer as well:
- Make Moon layers visible again. Load selection for the original Moon layer.
- Keep selection, then add Layer mask to the blurred layer.
- Apply Hard Light Blending Mode to the Blurred&Masked layer
- Erase other ares of this layer with the soft brush except selected spot below:
- Insert Icicles image.
- In order to remove black background, go to Select > Color Range.
- Click black area with the eyedropper.
- Then go to Select > Invert Selection.
- Select Refine Edge:
- Here is result of removing black background:
- Select the part of icicles and paste them into a new layer. Make the original layer with icicles invisible for a while.
- Here is the part copied in previous steps.
- in order to transform the shape of icicles, go to Edit > Transform > Warp Transformation > Arch. Do not finish the transformation on this point.
- Then move left and right edges by using Skew transformation.
- Erase marked areas to make icicles smaller and correct top edge.
- Here is result of erasing:
- Duplicate icicles layer and apply Ocean Ripple Filter to the duplicate.
- Apply Auto contrast to this duplicated layer.
- Change Blending Mode to Lighten for this layer and Opacity 70%.
- Duplicate icicles layer once again, apply Fill = 0% and Inner Shadow. Add Layer Mask to this layer and fill it with black & white gradient from one mark to another like on the image below:
