First thing you need to remember that every photo or digital artwork must have 1 point that catches the viewer’s attention. It can be (and mostly is) face or the eyes, but it can also be any other spot, that is the leitmotif of the canvas. When having too many points that catch the visitor’s attention, your artwork loses it’s charm and simply may lack the zest it would otherwise have with less accents on the canvas. So first thing you need to remember that in art, mostly, less is more.
Second thing to bear in mind is the depth of field. When you concentrate your look on a certain point, the rest becomes a little blurred in your vision, especially if the rest of the objects lay far behind. This is what we call — depth of field. In other words, human face cannot be just as sharp on the picture, as the background house that appears to be a few miles behind the figure. Although this isn’t always true and we have different variations of art (and sometimes the unusual is the best looking surreal concept!) but I am giving this little info so you will understand WHY we blur certain points and why we play with light the way we do, in this Photoshop Tutorial.
Ingredients:
http://dracoart-stock.deviantart.com/art/Asbury-Park-NJ-5-118481560
http://liam-stock.deviantart.com/art/Faballa-4-111550452
http://flordelys-stock.deviantart.com/art/sky-017-62717553
http://dracoart-stock.deviantart.com/art/Balloon-Festival-30-102183167
Get started.
We were working on a rather big canvas, we started with 1024px × 764px new layer as these were the dimensions of our base image. However you may feel more comfortable working with smaller or bigger images.
Take the image with fence and sand and paste it unto your Canvas:
Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, crop out and delete the sky and water upper half of the layer:
Don’t worry about the rough unnatural layer, we will work this out a bit later.
The next step is take the image with sky (from our ingredients list), and paste it on top of the previous layer with sand. Using Eraser Tool with a small soft brush, remove the lower part so that you will have an image consisting from sky and sand, just as you see below:
The way our image looks now, it’s very far yet from been an organically blended scene, so let’s start blending the layers into one another.
To make the sand less cheery, the easiest way is to simply match colors with the clouds, so this is exactly what we are going to do. While the sand layer is selected, go to Image >> Adjustments >> Match Color and apply the following settings:
if you have already unselected, select the layer with sand again, and go to Curves. Using the RGB channel, darken the image by dragging the curve down somewhere in the middle. We used Output: 113 and Input:143.
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Hi I just pay the PSD file but It dint download
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Excellent work.
Wow!! wonderful tut, and wonderful style of work
carry on sky is the limit.
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I was able to downlod the file, but it was corrupted and would not open.
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Thanks for a great few hours well spent, I’m tottaly buzzing now I’ve just finished my first real project. Bring them all on, I’m hoocked
I’ve always been interested in working with wings, and I’d like to add wings to my own version of this piece. However, I don’t seem to see the part of that in your tutorial. Could you possibly email me how you did that? My email is demonamelia@hotmail.com Please and thank you!
Awesome Tutorial!. Well, do this website have tutorials on making human into monster or a Goddess or a warrior. Please reply asap. It is for a school project.
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Paul – sorry for the delay, I emailed you the file now, thanks and enjoy!
Hello,
I just pay for the PSD, but the download don’t start.
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A.Paul
Thanks, really good tips…
What a great resource!
Hello , i am new in your site and I can not understand because I’m very beginner.
why my own clouds are black and not white? What to do?
This is the best tutorial I have ever seen. I sent in the money like you asked. Thanks for making my day. Freddie J. Smitty
Really helpful tutorial for graphics designer.
Beautiful work and very helpful
In the seventh image I very confused
.. can you help me please?
and to become more clear
because I do not know English well
And I am new to photoshop. Thank you very much.
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I’ve recently started a blog, the information you provide on this site has helped me tremendously. Thank you for all of your time & work.
Still no PSD file and I emailed you a copy of the Pay Pal transaction. By the way I see no mention of the creation of the wings in the tutorial.
Don Reeder
amazing photo montage techniques in this beautiful tutorials.
how do you create something like this
out of a given picture?
Still have not received my PSD file!
@Don, I emailed you now, sorry for the delay. I looked up your email and i can’t find your purchase ID though.
If anyone else is experiencing a problem with download (which in most cases starts automatically), please email me editor@loreleiwebdesign.com — this is the fastest way to get a response.
Thanks!
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