Learn how to create this surreal photo manipulation in Photoshop. Youll learn the basics of combining stock photos, how to blend them in by adding light and shadows, and complete it with a vintage photo effect.
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Story Book Coming to Life Photoshop Tutorial
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Difficulty: Medium-Hard
- Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour
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Step 1 Create a new image
We will be creating a square canvas for this image so to begin, lets create a new Photoshop document with the following settings:
- Width: 3000 pixels
- Height: 3000 pixels
- Resolution: 300 dpi
- Color Mode: RGB Color; 8bit
- Background Contents: Transparent
Step 2 Create the background
In this step, we would be creating our background, specifically the table and the sky. Lets start by creating our sky. Open the stock image: Premade Background 20. We would only need the sky in this image so activate the Rectangular Marquee tool (M) and click on a point on the edge of the image and drag the mouse down to where the sky meets the ground. See image below:
Now that youve selected the sky, activate the Move tool (V) then left click on the selected part of the image and drag it to our 3000×3000 canvas. As you can see, the image on our canvas is rather small so we would have to resize that. Activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) and then right click on the image to bring up the contextual menu, when the menu pops up, click on Scale. Now the Scale tool helps in accurately resizing an image. To resize, just move the square buttons located on the edges of the image.
After that, lets open the stock image: Orange Sunset. We would be adding this image to enhance the look and feel of our sky. thepirActivate the Rectangular Marquee tool (M) and then select the sky, and then drag that selected layer to the canvas. Once the new sky is on our canvas, activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) and then scale the image as seen below:
Now that our new sky has been transformed, lets change its Opacity so it would blend in with the sky layer under it. On the Layer window, go to Opacity and reduce its level to 70%.
If youd look carefully there are some clouds from our first sky layer appearing on the second sky layer. This doesnt look good, so we would need to brighten that part.
To brighten that region we would be using the Brush tool (B). First, lets create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) and when the box opens, change the name to brighten. Now, activate the Brush tool (B) and input the following settings:
- Brush size: 1000 px
- Hardness: 15%
- Opacity: 100%
- Flow: 100%
Note: To reduce the Hardness, right click on the image while the Eraser tool (E) is activated, then youd see the Hardness scale, which is at default 100%, just move the slider to the left to get 0%.
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