Grab the Brush Tool (B), select some soft round brush and lower its Opacity on 15%. Pick white color and start painting over the areas which should be lighter:
- clouds around meteors,
- clouds from the side where the sun shines,
- parts of building which are facing to sun.
After you’re done pick black color and darken bottom part of the image and top left corner to make the image more balanced looking. If you’re not sure where to paint look at the picture below for inspiration.
Step 6 – Adding Vignette
In this and some of the following steps you’ll focus on color adjustments. Let’s start with adding gentle vignette. I really like adding vignette to my pictures because it’s a great way how you can lead viewer’s eye in the center of the image. Grab the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) and select center of the image.
Now you want to make the selection smoother. To do that you need to feather it. Go to Select > Modify > Feather… (path may differ in different versions of Photoshop, this one is for CS6) or press Shift+F6 to activate the Feather Selection window. As Feather Radius set about 40pixels and press OK.
Go to Selection > Inverse or press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert the selection you created. With the mask active add new adjustment layer Curves on the top of all layers and set it as on the following picture.
Because of the active mask the adjustment layer makes only the edges of the picture darker and the center remains same as before.
Step 7 – Creating Stronger Atmosphere
When I was creating this photo manipulation I had some big, polluted city from the future in my mind. For me this mood can be captured by adding red tones to do the image and by darkening it. You’ll do both in this step. First add new adjustment layer Curves on the top of all layers and set them as on the following image. This way you add red tones to shadows of your image and cyan tones to highlights.
Change the Blending Mode of this layer from Normal to Color for better effect.
Now you make the image bit darker. Add another adjustment layer Curves on the top of the layers and set it as on the following picture.
On the following image you can see the adjustments you’ve made in this step.
33 responses to “How to Create an Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”
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Love it
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it sux no images
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hi bro
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thank you , I am teaclother you have explained the tutorial thanks a lot.
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thank you , I am teaclother you have explained the tutorial thanks a
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It is very helpful tutorial and great idea for this tutorial….thanks a lot
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Interesting tutos and very well explained ! Congratulations!
But how can I get your stock (resources) pictures in Pelleron-Art? -
Very Nice
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I did your tutorial in the past, here: http://annewipf.deviantart.com/art/TMM-A3P2-Apocalyptic-Sci-Fi-Photomanipulation-408652475
But it seem we cannot see the tutorials published on photoshop-tutorials anymore. :(
I tried to contact photoshop-tutorial, but it doesn’t work. :(
Could you tell me if there is something to pay now, or what we can do? Thank you. -
Please re uploaded PSD file because when i click on download showing 404 error, this is best work for me i want check how did you do this
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Absolutely beautiful works.. This is what called “Creativity”.
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Great, thanks for all the helpful info!
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It’s an okay tutorial… Except I couldn’t follow it after Step 2. (including Step 2).
The instructions are so vague, and major steps are being skipped. I just can’t follow it.
You should really try to improve on that. I’d rather have too many details and too proper grammar than too little.-
Maybe you should try to find some specific youtube-workshops about this themes
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WOW this tutorial suck , couldn’t understand a thing
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Fantastic website. Lots of helpful information here.
I’m sending it to some buddies ans also sharing in delicious. And certainly, thank you for your sweat! -
This tutorial is okay, but it’s obviously lacking a LOT of information that’s required to even get close to the desired look that the author is showing.
The tutorial is best at showing some ideas of what you can do and how to do it, but it’s not showing an obvious step-by-step method to get the exact look (if you’re trying for that) of the picture the author created.
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Thoughtful tutorial. Hats off
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Excelente
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thanks for the tutorial!!
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Thank you very much, it’s really helpful!
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holy shit ! you are so great !
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Extremely Awesome Tutorial \m/ I love it
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Humm… We can see a reflection on the city..
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its totally amazin!!!!!
i have learnt a lot of effects through this and its awesome…… u have got a lot of ability and please teach me some….. -
Thank you for the great tutorial,keep it up
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hay.. in the begginig you say to create a new document.. can you please tell me the exact dimentions of the document coz i face difficulties with the begginig.. thnx a lot!
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I believe the author used an image dimension of 600×900 pixels.
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very nice!!!!
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Great tutorial!
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Thanks !!!!
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Thank you very much for the tutorial, very well explained :) I have not had any problems in understanding it, Thanks
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Good but I would change the meteors up so they aren’t the same copy.
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