The first you open this picture, press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer then change blend mode: Soft light
Cut the lady out of background (Feather=5)
Move the lady to the first picture, press Ctrl+B to open Color Balance, set information like this:
Press Ctrl+J to duplicate lady layer, blend mode: Screen and adjust Opacity of layer copy: 70%. You will get the result:
Open cloud stock, use Elliptical marquee tool to make selection like this (Feather=20)
Move selected part of cloud to background, use Free Transform (Ctrl+T) to make it fit in background, change blend mode: Screen
Duplicate cloud layer, use Free Transform (Ctrl+T) to reverse layer copy then move it to bottom of background
Get Moon from this stock, feather 10px:
Move moon layer to background and put it under cloud layer. Press Ctrl+B to open Color Balance and set information like this:
You will get:
Use Elliptical Marquee Tool to draw a lozenge then click Right mouse, choose Stroke: white, 1px
Dupliate lozenge layer to make another layer copy (about 5,6 layers) then sort them like this:
Merge all lozenge layers to one layer then open Layer Style, set information like this:
Go to Filter -> Radial Blur:
Duplicate one more layer to make the ribbon lighter, then continue merge them to one, change blend mode to Hard light, you will get:
Duplicate layer, use Free Transform to revolve lozenge like the picture below:
Put some birds over cloud and you will have:
Move "paper" stock to background then change Blend mode to Linear Burn:
Open Color Balance (Ctrl+B) of paper layer, set information like this:
And this is my final result: (Click on the picture below to see full size)
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denizmahirdenizmahir62@hotmail.com said on 2008-08-17 04:08:24 gece
Robert said on 2009-03-16 03:03:42 Awesome tutorial, good skills. but i think the girl looks a tad displaced, if you just took her out and left it alone, i think it might be a bad ass mystical forest scene.
!!...F--- said on 2009-04-13 06:04:35 Best Tutorial... Hard WOrk... but the Explaination Is Perfect ... Like it (y)
Judyladyjlee@gmail.com said on 2009-04-15 12:04:37 Absolutely fantastic tutorial, thank you for sharing !
Photoonlycj@rambler.ru said on 2009-06-13 02:06:42 IMHO very nice) Thnx for good tutorial))
Gordongordon-farrell@ntlworld.com said on 2009-07-14 15:07:26 something seems to go wrong when I do the lozenge shape ( Icannot get it how it is in the picture do I need a new layer for the lozenge? i am lost), can anybody help, cheers
photo retouchinginfocusphotoretouch@yahoo.com said on 2009-08-12 08:08:44 A really stunning result! Great photo retouch.
Mistylittledeaddollyx@aol.com said on 2009-10-04 12:10:11 I loved this effect. Used my own photo and added some extras as well.
http://i37.tinypic.com/2eea5tz.jpg
AbidakMojib4luv@yahoo.Co.Uk said on 2009-12-04 15:12:00 Great!
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