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Photo Effects ›› Butterfly Angel Photo Effect
 
The first, you open this photo then press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer, apply Blend mode: Soft light



Now you open this photo:



Use Magnetic Lasso Tool to cut the lady out of background (Feather=2)



Move the lady to background like this:



Press Ctrl+B to open Color Balance, adjust some informations to make the color of lady match background



After adjust Color Balance, you press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer of lady, change blend mode of this layer copy: Soft light

Load Selection of lady (Ctrl + Click on layer of lady) then press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert selection
Press Ctrl+Alt+D to open Feather Radus box, put 5 pixels into box
Press Delete key to clear



Now you press Ctrl+D to deselect and you will get:



Use Pen tool to draw light downwards, make selection: feather=0



Combine 2 colors #CEA24A + #FFFFFF
On the bar:

Use Gradient tool to drag downwards, adjust Opactiy=70%, you will get:



Duplicate light layer 2 times then use Free Transform to move light to center and left



Use Brush tool 200px and draw like this:



Change blend mode: Soft light:



Pick this brush:



Apply to model like this:



Select layer of lady and adjust curves like this:



Continue pick this brush, set Opacity 50%:



And this is final result:
(Click on the picture below to see full size)



These are the brushes needed for this tutorials, click here to download
 
Rate and discussion this tutorial
LEvans said on 2008-04-11 10:04:28
I can't get the brushes that need to be downloaded to work.. help please???
psg said on 2008-04-17 02:04:42
the brushes used in this tutorial: http://www.photoshop-garden.com/images/tutorials/butterfly_angel/brushes.rar
Homjak said on 2008-04-21 07:04:03
Cool
silent_sarah silent_sarah40@yahoo.com said on 2008-05-29 02:05:34
the rar file doesn't work.. i can't get the brushes.. please tell me how to make the rar file work.. :(
psg said on 2008-05-29 08:05:40
@silent_sarah: you have to install winrar program to decompress that file, go to rarlab.com to download it
Gitte g.haugaard@hotmail.com said on 2008-08-05 10:08:17
It works perfectly by me.. Thank you.. ! Love love love my new brusches :) and cool photo

Christina Nilsson christina.nilsson19@comhem.se said on 2008-10-04 05:10:29
Oh, it's just lovely this tutorial, just what I was looking for. I tryed to download the brushes but only a page with incomprehensive words showed up.

I have previously downloaded brushes from other your tutorials so I can't understand why it doesn't work this time.

Please let me know how to do, I would appreciate it very much.

Christina
David said on 2009-01-31 22:01:39
I cant seem to get the invert thing to work..doenst let me...
khathya conceicao khathyagata13@hotmail.com said on 2009-02-25 14:02:28
good!
lisa said on 2009-10-01 07:10:01
great tutorial
i just dont like to see the harsh edges of light coming in from the side, if it was gradual, i think it would make a better photo.