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Step 12 – Blending the Dress

Blending the edges of woman’s dress could be really tricky- It’s semi transparent fabric on quite dark background so you can’t use Levels separation like in most of similar cases. To create really realistic result I have to come up with new, bit unusual technique of blending. Hope it helps you in similar cases of blending as it did me.First you need to hide all layers where woman, dress and her hair are to see only the picture of library.
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Press Ctrl+A on your keyboard to select the whole image. Press Ctrl+Shift+C to copy it merged and then Ctrl+V to paste it. Place this new layer on the top of all layers and name it DRESS RETOUCH.Add layer mask to this new layer and fill it with black color to make it invisible.Grab the Brush Tool (B). Set its Hardness on 0% and Opacity on 10%. Pick white color and carefully paint over the semi transparent parts of the dress. See picture below to get the idea where you should paint. These parts are highlighted with red color.
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Take your time with blending. Try different size of the brush to get the most realistic result.After this step your photo manipulation should be similar to the one shown below.
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Step 13 – Adding Mist

In this step you’ll add some mist behind the woman to create more magical atmosphere.Download the mist brushes listed in the beginning of the tutorial and install them into Photoshop. Add new empty layer under layer WOMAN. Grab the Brush Tool (B), select one of the brushes you’ve just installed, set its Opacity on 30% and pick some light yellow color (for example #e4e1c9). Now paint some very gentle mist.Take a look at the image below to get the idea.
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Step 14 – Light Behind the Bun

To separate the bun from the background you make the area bit lighter in this step.Add new adjustment layer Curves under the layer WOMAN and set it as shown below.
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Grab the Brush Tool (B), select some soft round brush and set its Opacity on 80%. Pick white color and paint two big white dots on the layer mask of this adjustment layer under the bun. On the following image you can see the result of this step.

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8 responses to “How to Create Dramatic Light in Your Fantasy Photo Manipulation”

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    Kristin Skaalerud

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  2. krish pilles Avatar
    krish pilles

    just awesome work can you share advanced technique for masking …….. i will be grateful to you .

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    irina

    спасибо! красиво!

  6. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    Hi, these sunray brushes can’t be downloaded for free? So what to do next? Thnxs.

  7. Janet V Post Avatar
    Janet V Post

    beautiful work!

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