Create a fantasy city in Photoshop Photoshop tutorials. Fantasy photo editing Tutorials for creating fantasy images

Create a 1000x1100 px document and fill it with black. Click Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N to create a new layer. Activate the tool brush tool (B) with color #4e1502 and size 1200 px. Draw in the center of the black canvas:

Step 2

Create a new layer, change the brush color to #f6bc2f. Paint inside the dark red area and change the mode to color dodge 100%:

Step 3

Use the same brush to paint again on a new layer and change the mode to overlay 70%:

Step 4

Open the Nebula image. We use the tool MoveTool (V) to drag it onto our canvas:

Step 5

Click on the second button at the bottom of the Layer Set to add a mask to this layer. Use a soft black brush with opacity around 40-45% to reduce the hazy effect on some parts. You can see how we did it in the layer mask and the result is in the image:

Step 6

Duplicate this layer and erase some parts with a layer mask to get the result as shown below:

Go to filter Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur and choose a radius of 2 px:

Step 7

Open the image of the girl. First we use the tool Polygonal Lasso Tool to create a selection around the girl (no need to be too careful with the hair):

Double click on the background layer to unlock it.

Click on the layer mask button to hide the background part:

Step 8

Right click on Layer 0, select Refine Mask:

We use the tool Refine Radius Tool with a size of about 100 px to draw around the head and show more hair.

Here is our result after cleaning (we used a red background to show you this more clearly):

Step 9

We place the girl after extraction on our main canvas, above all layers:

Step 10

I want to reduce the brightness on the bright parts of the model, so create a new layer above the model with clipping mask:

Use the brush with color #e6e2e9 to paint over the bright hair, face and parts of the arms and change the mode to Multiply 100%:

Step 11

We continue to reduce the brightness of the model's face, hands, using a new layer ( clipping mask) and the same brush. We have changed the mode to Multiply 50%:

Step 12

We would like to add more detail to the model's hair, so on a new layer we used a brush with color #5a595b and a size of about 20 px. Here is the result we got:

Step 13

To add some red to the model, we used an adjustment layer with clipping mask. Go to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Hue/Saturation:

Step 14

Step 15

Create a layer Curves to darken the model:

In a layer mask Curves we used a soft brush to remove and reduce the intensity of the darkening.

Step 16

Create a new layer and use the #f66e2b brush to paint over the hair and hands. Change the mode to color 100%:

Step 17

On a new layer, use the brush to add more bright red color to the hair and body outline. Set the mode to overlay 100%:

Step 18

We used the #f5c25f brush to paint over the outlines of the model again and add some orange tint. Change the mode to hard light 100%:

Step 19

Create a new layer and use the same brush to paint over some ends of the hair and change the mode to overlay 100%:

Step 20

Create a new layer, we used the color #f66e2b to paint inside the eyes and then change the mode to dodge mode 100%:

Step 21

Click on the brush menu, select Reset Brushes to activate the default brush settings. Now on a new layer change the foreground color to #f66e2b and click on the brushes Fuzzball:

Reduce the brush size to 80 px and create spots inside the eyes. We changed the mode to Linear Dodge 100%:

Step 22

To refine some of the facial features, we created a new layer, changed the mode to overlay 100% and filled with 50% gray:

We use the tool Dodge and Burn Tool (O) with setting Midtones Range, exposure about 20-25% to brighten the effect on the eyes, the edges of the face and nose, darken the eyebrows, bridge of the nose. You can see how we did it in the mode Normal and result in mode overlay:

Step 23

Create a new layer on the top, use a soft brush with color #bd5733 to paint over the bottom part of the image:

Step 24

To get a stronger effect here, we used a soft brush with the color #f6bc2f and changed the mode to overlay 100%:

Step 25

On a new layer, use the #f6bc2f brush to paint on the two arms. We have changed the mode to hard light 100%:

Step 26

Move the fireworks image to our canvas and set the mode to color dodge 100%:

We named the layer "sparks 1".

Step 27

Add a mask to this layer. Use the brush to remove and reduce the intensity of the fireworks on some of the parts shown below:

Step 28

On layer sparks 1 go to filter Filter-Distort-Twirl:

Apply Gaussian Blur by 2px:

Step 29

Duplicate this layer, use Cmd/Ctrl+T to rotate it and get the result shown below. You can use a layer mask to remove unwanted parts:

Step 30

We open the images of the flame. We chose the first two images to work with:

We use the tool Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to create a selection for the part of the fire in image1:

We place it in the lower part of the girl's body, change the mode to Screen 100%:

Step 31

To remove the white edges left after changing the blend mode, double-click on this layer, select Blending Options. We hold Alt/Option and move the black slider This Layer until the white edges disappear:

Step 32

Take the other parts of the flame and place them around the model's hair and body. We applied the same settings Blending Options to all these layers and used a layer mask to remove unwanted parts.

We used 14 layers for the effect.

Step 33

Select all flame layers, then press Cmd/Ctrl+G to group them. Change the group mode from Pass Through(default mode for groups) on Screen one hundred%. On layer 14 go to the menu Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Curves:

In a layer mask Curves use the brush to erase in the arms, hair and bottom area, since we don't need to make these parts too light:

Step 34

Final step: click Cmd/Ctrl+Option/Alt+Shift+E to merge all visible layers. Go to filter

We should get something like this in the final:

For work we need:
1. Two third-party plugins for Photoshop: Imagenomic Portraiture and Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0. Finding them online is very easy. Naturally, you can do without them, using Photoshop itself, but in my opinion they make life very easy.
2. Original photo, preferably not phone quality or matchbox size

3. Photo to create a background. It can be an image of a forest, a flower garden, nettle thickets, etc. In general, something vegetable, with a fairly large number of details and a transition of tones. It doesn't even have to be high quality. I used the following stock image:

4. A couple of clipart: grass in PNG format and a snail to create horns:

So:
1. Open the original photo. It is clear that in order to substitute a new background, you first need to remove the old one. This will take care of the most convenient way for us. Usually I prefer to just simply remove the background around the object with a hard eraser at high zoom, but this time I used the Magnetic Lasso tool , selected the shape and transferred it to a new layer using Layer via Copy:

Let's hide the background layer, most likely we won't need it anymore.

2. When using the Lasso Tool, most often some extra details remain, pieces of the old background, dark unnecessary contours, and therefore we take a hard eraser and carefully pass it along the edges of the figure, cleaning up this disgrace:

3. In some places, closer to the edge, the figure is still a little dark, for example, hair, but we need it to fit better into the future, rather light background, so we take the Dodge Tool with Exposure equal to 15-20% and brighten the edges:

4. Now you can substitute the background. We transfer it to our picture, put it as the bottom layer and blur the Gaussian Blur quite strongly to an almost uniform state:

5. Let's leave the background for now and start retouching the face (in general, this is always the most painstaking part of the work). First, let's remove all the defects (just the defects, not the whole texture out of the blue) using the Clone Stamp Tool and the Healing Brush Tool:

Now you can soften the texture of the face a little, here the Imagenomic Portraiture plugin will come in very handy. Duplicate the layer with the shape (now there should be three of them, except for the hidden background layer). The plugin is applicable to the top layer, but it is advisable not to overdo it with the settings, so as not to get a completely plastic skin:

And then we lower the opacity of the top layer to 60-70 percent (but in general this is all done by eye and depending on the size of the source) and with a soft eraser we erase the areas around the eyes, mouth and other strategically important details of the face that should not become blurry. They will come through from the bottom layer:

6. Let's give the eyes some shine and color saturation. To do this, copy the irises onto a new layer, usually I roughly select them with the Rectangular Marquee Tool, put them on a new layer using Layer via Copy and apply the Color Dodge blending mode to the layer. Unnecessary parts are simply removed with a soft eraser of small diameter:

Saturate the eyes a little with color (or we can change it altogether). Go to Hue/Saturation (the layer with the irises should be selected) and move the sliders to taste. When the result suits us, click ok and we can reduce the top two layers. To give even more shine and some glow effect, you can lightly walk along the lower arc of the iris of the eyes Dodge Tool:

7. Now let's do the painting work) Let's paint the parts of the face. To do this, select a flesh-pink color with a soft brush with a low intensity (5-7%) and on a new layer with the Overlay blending mode, go over the forehead, cheeks, nose and chin, especially intensively on the cheekbones:

Do the same with the lips.

8. I wedged a little into the make-up process by using the Clone Stamp Tool with a soft brush and Opacity = 25-30% to slightly soften the wrinkles under the eyes, uneven spots above the lips and the areas of the chin and tray (a tray is not a tray on which bring, but what is under the nose):

9. We continue coloring Personally, I wanted to add shadows for the eyelids and always some fresh spring-summer colors, and light green here comes in handy. The same principle as in point number 7:

10. What I thought it appropriate to add here is freckles. I really love freckles, but I don’t have enough of my own. Here a brush helped me, which is very easy to make, but you can also find it on the net. In the form of a scattering of dots of irregular shape. I chose black for the brush and applied the freckles on a new layer, still using the same Overlay blend mode:

11. Now let's pay attention to the fact that the contours of the figure contrast strongly with the background, because it is blurry, and the contours are very clear and generally look somehow unhealthy. Therefore, we will take the Blur Tool and blur them, stronger on the shoulders and hair and not too zealous - on hands:

12. It's time for third-party details. Open the grass file, drag it as the top layer onto our document, place it as we like and simulate defocus by blurring it with Gaussian Blur. To match the grass in tone, because the original one is a bit dark, as it seems to me, I used the Photo Filter, adding yellowness:

You can not be limited to grass, add leaves, flowers, whatever your heart desires, the main thing is not to turn the foreground into a smeared vinaigrette completely

13. Finally, I decided to turn myself into a complete snail-type sheep using the shell of that very snail. /planetaphotoshop.ru/images/smilies/swoon.gif" />) and part of the base of the shell so that it blends into the whiskey as smoothly as possible (I must admit that this moment is somewhat lame for me). We slightly blur the snails, because they should not be very clear:

The snail is too dark, so I needed to brighten it up a bit and exacerbate the whole thing with the Dodge Tool with range - Highlights:

14. I tried to combine whiskey (TEMPLE - m. side of the head ... (c) Dal) and horns with some kind of hair, it turned out, however, not very well, maybe you can do better. Select the Smudge Tool, and a soft brush with a very small with a diameter of 2-3 pixels (if the photo is very small, then generally 1 pixel) we connect the horns with the hair and vice versa:

You can flatten layers.

15. In my opinion, some kind of hodgepodge is missing, as one comrade put it - pseudo-fabulous highlights
I create highlights in the following way: on a new document with a transparent background, in a mess, we put blurry spots of white color, of various sizes. It turns out a sort of peculiar falling snow out of focus:

We place this snow on top of our work and set the blending mode to overlay (again this overlay "src="http://planetaphotoshop.ru/images/smilies/nea.gif" />). The snow turns into yellow highlights, but very bright, so slightly reduce the opacity of the layer and with a soft translucent eraser erase the highlights from the face area so that they do not give the impression of some kind of exotic skin disease:

16. The picture is almost ready, but some final processing generalizing all the elements would not hurt it. This moment is my favorite. For this I use the Nik Color Efex Pro plugin. I can fiddle with it for an hour, choosing the settings and effects to my liking: