Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 6:

We personally found her outfit a little bit to complex so we decided to remove some lines, and all we have done is just using a Brush Tool with soft edge and color that matches the clothes she is wearing. Using a medium size brush, simply go over her outfit, covering the shades and sew-marks. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look too organic yet, we will make it look blended in well later.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

However, to avoid your painting over clothes look out of place, we are going to swap the blending mode of this layer from normal to Screen…

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 7:

Fixing the girl’s skin is going to be our next step in this tutorial. Using the Blur Tool, go over her skin and blur it, especially in places that got pixelated because of the JPG compression, that is to say — near the transition to other colors.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

This should be your result so far, with the skin nicely smoothed, whitened outfit, overall photo adjustment of the layer:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

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Step 7:

We also want to add a nice twirly shape which will add some twist to our composition, so select any twirly shape you have in your arsenal, something that won’t be too complex or too. If you wish to avail of the same brush we have use, feel free to download the PSD file at the end of this tutorial.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Place the Shape onto the canvas, using White color as your Foreground color:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 8:

Press Ctrl + T to start transforming, Right Mouse Click to see the menu and select the “Distort” option, distorting the shape in just as you see below:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Go to Layer Styles option for this shape and apply glow using white color as well.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 9:

As any modern artwork, it should consist from plenty of layers with many little details. so Select the brush tool, and using the maple leaves brush, go to brush presets, apply the following settings:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

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and scatter it, just like this:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 10:

Use baby blue as your foreground and white as background colors, chaotically work with your brush across the canvas, trying to follow the flower and shape lines.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 11:

Set the blending mode of these leaves to “Screen”, in order to give it a nice semi-transparent yet vividly visible effect.

Using a much smaller  brush, and a darker baby-blue hue, create a new layer and go with the brush over the canvas again, concentrating on the lady’s layer: