Horse In The Night Background

Horse In The Night Background

Step 1. I collect the stock images I am going to use for my manipulation. All stock used in this tutorial was purchased from Big Stock Photo I use photoshop CS4 and a Wacom Bamboo Fun graphic tablet. Here you can see the images I chose; 1) Horse 2) Space 3) Meadow 4) Horsehead Nebula   As you can see there is still some of the horses original background left over, so I will use the pen tool to cut the rest of the background out of the horse. I also used the clone stamp tool to remove the horse's halter. Also if the horse is too small or big for the background I would use the free transform tool. (Edit > Free Transform) to position the horse. In the picture below you can see the free transform tool (the box around the horse.) Once you have made your changes with the free transform tool, hit enter on your keyboard and the box goes away. You can also see the other changes I made as mentioned in this step.   Then I paste the nebula and moon onto background. To do this open each image then I press ctrl + a on the keyboard to select the whole image, then go to the background and horse and press ctrl + v, repeating this step for the next image. At this point the colours don't match and they are arranged quite messily, so I will use the free transform tool again to arrange the images.   Because I am going to blend the nebula into the grassy paddock, the moon and horse layers are a bit of a distraction, so I will turn the horse and moon layer to 'invisible.' To do this I go to the layers panel and find the horse layer. I click the 'eye' as circled in red on the preview below. If I was to click the box where the eye was, the image will re-appear. Then I will repeat this step for the moon layer. Step 2. We now have the grassy background and the purple nebula. We can clearly see that it is two images, so I will blend it so the grass fades into the sky. To do this I will add a layer mask to the nebula. To do this I select the layer I want to add a layer mask to, in this case the nebula layer. Once I have selected my layer I select the circle surrounded by a square in the layers panel. (See circled image below.) This will then add a white layer on the right of my selected layer, as seen in the second preview below. Click on the white layer. On the left in your tools panel the colours circled in red should change to black and white. If not, change them.   Then I select the brush tool and change my brush to one of the default soft round brushes. I make sure the colour is black, then I 'brush' over the bottom of the image. If I make a mistake, I change the colour to white, and using the soft brush I can bring the image back. But make sure you have the 'white layer mask' selected when you use the brush on the image. The image below how my blending turned out.   Part 2 ) Horse in the Night Background Step 3. Now it blends better, but the green grass and the purple nebula stands out a bit too much. So I will give the grass a purple tint. To do this I select the grass layer and then go image > duplicate. (So we have the original layer if we make any mistakes.) Then on the duplicated layer I go to image > adjustments > hue & saturation. Then I experiment with the sliders until I have reached the desired effect. I also brought the moon layer back, cut the moon out and gave it a purple tint by using the hue and saturation again. Step 4. The background is now prepared, so I will bring the horse layer back. I will adjust the hue & saturation of the horse as well, so it has a purple tint and also matches the background. As you can see the feet don't blend with the background, so I will select the horse layer and add a layer mask as seen in step 3. But instead of using a soft round default photoshop brush, I will select the default photoshop grass brush. Once you have selected the grass brush go to window > brushes. If the 'colour dynamics' has a 'tick' next to it, select it so it's unchecked. Then use the brush on the layer mask where the horses hooves are, to blend it into the grass background. Step 5. Now for the mane and tail. To do the mane and tail I create a new layer above the horse layer. Then I colour pick purple colour from the horse's body. A colour that isn't too dark, but not to light. Then I change my brush to a hard round default brush and begin to sketch the basic shape of the mane and tail. So far I have only erased part of the previous mane and re-painted the new one using two colours.     Now I will go in and make the mane and tail thicker and add highlights and lowlights to give it life. Basically I just keep making strands following the flow of the horses mane and tail, starting with a large round brush and making it smaller as the mane gets thicker and not so 'transparent.' You can see a close up of the mane and tail below.

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Create a Washed Out Nuclear Fall Out Scene

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Basically I am going to show you the steps of making a Washed Out Fall Out scene with Photoshop. I used CS5, but any version of Photoshop should suffice.

Well first off, I would like to say that this is my first tutorial. So I am new to this so bare with me. Also comments on how this turns out is appreciated.

Difficulty- Easy to Intermediate (I am a full time student, so judge that how you will)

I will provide all the source images I used with each that they are needed.

I hope you find the abundance of pictures helps more then just words.

End result:

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Practice tutorial

Step 1

my first step begins with using this source image.
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/218754

After you have downloaded this image load it into photoshop.

You should have this loaded into photoshop

Name this layer 'Road'

Step 2

Now that we have our image loaded into photoshop, we unlock this layer by either duplicating it or dragging the lock icon to the trash ( if you decide to duplicate it, discard the orginal layer leaving only the unlocked one).Then we will create a layer mask. I used a soft edge brush and masked out everything except the road. It really does not matter what size brush you use as long as you end up with something fairly similar to this

Step 3

Now we will load another source image into photoshop.
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/130290

You will need to load this image onto our first document, which is the road.

After you have loaded this image onto the original, we will once again add a layer mask ( you may need to stretch out this image so the mountains fit across the entire screen.)
Now take a soft edge brush and mask out everything expect for the mountains. After you have done this you should be left with this.

As you can see the edges are very soft, and part of the tree line is still visible. Don't worry about this, I will explain more later. If you have achieved something fairly close to this, drag the mountain layer below the road layer.

name this layer 'Mountains'

Step 4

Now we are going to add our sky to the picture. Heres another source
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/120388

Like previous steps, we are going to add this photo to our original document. Since the photo is high resolution you can stretch it to fit your document. We will add a layer mask and mask out the upper half of the picture ( I took the lower half of the picture because the clouds were more detailed.) Once you have masked out the upper half, raise the picture up with the move tool so the clouds are now at the top of the document. Name this layer Clouds You should be left with this
You do not need to mask out the lower part with a soft edge brush like I since we will drag our "Clouds" layer below the mountains.

Step 5

Now this is what you should have so far.

Step 6

Now we are going to add our final source image.
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/231026
Once this is loaded rename the layer desert, and move it to the very bottom of the layers.

Step 7

Now we are going to duplicate our Desert layer and move the duplicate to the very top. Now with this layer selected, go to filters, blur, radial blur.

Step 8

Now set the blending mode to Hard Light and you should have something fairly similar to this.

Step 9

Now we will add an adjustment layer to our "cloud layer"

You can do this two ways. 1) You can click on the clouds layer and go to images, adjustments, hue/saturation. Or
2) You may add an adjustment by going to layer, new adjustment layer, hue/saturation. or with the add adjustment layer icon which can be found on the layers pallet . If you decided to do this by using step 2 make sure you link this adjustment layer to the clouds layer. This will only apply this adjustment to this layer then.

Step 10

Your clouds layer should now look like this with the new adjustment.

Step 11

Now we will add an adjustment layer to our Mountains layer. Will we use the same process as before.

Step 12

Now we are going to load our original Clouds source in a new document. Once you have done that, make a selection of a cloud like this

Step 13

Once our selection is made we are going to feather it. While clicked on the selction tool, or lasso tool, you will a refine edge button near the top. Click on it and it will bring up a pallet like this. Feather the cloud til you get something similar to the picture below.

Step 14

Once you have done this, copy your selection. Do this by edit, copy. Once you have copied it paste it onto our original document. Move it to the back of the road. Your image should look like this.

Make sure this new cloud layer is above our blur #1 layer

Step 15

Now do this process several times with the same or different cloud selections. (Step 12-14)
You will end up with this.

Note that you may either merge these cloud layers or you could put them in a group. I preferred a group, so if needed you can edit them individually. Either way name the new merged layer or group to 'Dust'

Step 16

Now this Step is optional. You made add a picture of your self, or anything that you desire. I added my self. If you decide to do this then your image will look something like this, expect you will have added what ever you have pleased.

Step 17

Now we will repeat steps 12-14. We will add these new cloud layers above the layer you used in 16. This makes what ever you chose for step 16 look like its not just copied and pasted onto our document. It looks like it is in our document. Name the merged layer or group as Dust front

Step 18

Now we will apply an adjustment layer to all our layers. Do this by going to layer, new adjustment layer, hue/saturation. Make sure the colorized box is checked.

Step 19

You should have something fairly similar to this now

Step 20

We are almost done now. Go back to our orginial desert layer. Duplicated, and bring it to the very top of all our layers. We are going to apply a radial blur again. But this time with these settings.

Step 21

It will look like this

Name this layer Blur #2

Step 22

Now add a layer mask. Take a soft edge brush, size does not matter. Turn the opacity down a little bit. I set it at 50% but you can set it at what % and still achieve the same look. It will look like this

Once your picture looks like this, set the blending mode to overlay

Step 23

Duplicate Blur #2 and then remove the layer mask. Set this duplicate to soft light.
Now you have fished this tutorial. I hope you could understand my steps. Feedback is appreciated!