Create an Anti-Alcohol Concept Artwork with Photoshop

Add a mask to this layer. Use a soft black brush to remove the edges of the stair as shown below:

Step 8

I used Curves (Clipping Mask) to darken the stair:

Step 9

Cut out the model from the background and place her at the right of the ground, remember to rotate her to fit the angle of the ground:

Step 10

Make a new layer above the model one, change the mode to Overlay 100% and fill with 50% gray:

Use the Dodge and Burn Tool (O) with Midtones Ranges, Exposure about 15-20% to refine the contrast on the model face. You can see how I did it with Normal mode and the result with Overlay mode:

Step 11

Copy the cap and blood from the original image and position them beside the model:

Step 12

Make a new layer under the model one. Use a soft black brush with the opacity varied from 40% to 70% to paint the shadow under the model and the cap.

Step 13

Make the model, shadow, cap, blood layers selected then press Cmd/Ctrl+G to create a group for them. Change the mode of this group from Pass Through (default group mode) to Normal 100%. On the top of the layers within this group, make a Curves adjustment layer to darken the model and the relevant details:

On this layer mask use a soft black brush to reduce the darkness on some parts shown below:

Step 14

I used Hue/Saturation to reduce the saturation of the layers in this group:

Step 15

Create a Curves adjustment layer to increase the lightness on the model a bit:

On this Curves layer mask use a soft black brush to erase the parts we don’t want to be affected by this adjustment layer:

Step 16

Open the smoke image (feel free to use your own). Choose Channels in the Layers Panel then right click Red, choose Duplicate Channel:

On Red channel copy, press Cmd/Ctrl+L to open the Levels window. Change the shadows and highlight value to get a stronger contrast:

Here is the result:

Press Cmd/Ctrl+Option/Alt+6 to load the smoke selection:

Select the RGB channel, right click the selection and choose Layer via Copy. We have the smoke on a new layer:

Step 17

Put the extracted smoke over our working image and flip it horizontally by clicking Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal:

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