This tutorial has been written by Dreleen.

I decided to create a tut for this image.

Ok get your images together. For this pic I used the following:

Girl

Moss 1

Moss 2

Wings

Rocks

Mushroom

Go ahead duplicate all the pics and use masks to single out your selections

Once you make your selections delete the back grounds and hide the original layer

Open a new file, I used a large size like 3000 x 2500. And Cropped it at the end. Drag and place all your elements onto the page. Hide everything but the girl. Because the color of her clothes don’t match the theme of the pic we will have to adjust it. Start out by desaturating her. Go in and make separate selections masks for her skin, shirt, shorts and hair and save them.

Choose colors that fit the theme. Green and brown in this case, I also added small details to the shirt and shorts. I made her hair a richer color to match the other over saturated colors in the pics. I gave her some eyebrows and lashes using the burn tool.

Now shrink her to fit the rest of the elements.

Now concentrating on the wings. You can see they don’t quite match the angle of her shoulders. Separate each wing and use the rotate and distort tool, to match the wings to the girl’s angle.

(The upper pair shows the adjustments made to the wings)

Ok show the main elements and readjust anything that needs it. I moved the background over cause I didn’t like how the tree stuck out from the top if her head.

OK duplicate your mushroom a couple of times. Use the Free transform tool to create different shapes with the shrooms.

On a new layer, with the ellipse tool I made a selection and inverted it. Now take a large soft brush with a 40 % opacity and blacken the edges.

(save the selection)

Hide the black edge layer for now. Using the same selection go through the layers you have so far and soften the edges with the blur tool in an effect to create a shallow depth of field…kinda…

Now make a duplicate layer of all mushrooms, the girl and the wings. Set all the layers to the Difference blend mode

Now turn each Difference layer to 70% Opacity. This will leave the layers in a soft shadow. Now take a soft brush eraser set to 20 % opacity and remove all areas you want light to hit making sure to preserve any where a shadow will hit. If you were to turn everything off and only left the difference layers up this is what it should look like.

However with all the layers on it looks like this. Lastly add your moss layers. Place then where you want. Again use a 20 % opacity eraser to erase a little at a time to soften the edges and blend then in with the rest of the pic.

And you’re done! If you have any question do ask!

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