How to Create Dramatic Light in Your Fantasy Photo Manipulation

After you’re done pick white color and paint over the highlights in woman’s hair. You’ll make them healthier looking. See the image below for an example.

On the following photo you can compare how the photo manipulation looks before and after this step.

Step 19 – More Light

In this step you’ll add even more light behind the woman to create more magical atmosphere.Download Sun Rays Brushes listed in the beginning of the tutorial and install them into Photoshop. Add new empty layer on the top of all layers and name it SUN RAYS. Change its Blending Mode from Normal or Color Dodge. Grab the Brush Tool (B), select some of the sun rays brushes you’ve just installed, set its Opacity on 25% and pick bright orange color (for example #b9a587). You can see where you should paint on the image below.

You don’t want to see the light on woman’s face and body. To hide that add new layer mask to this layer. Grab the Brush Tool (B), select some soft round brush, pick black color and set the Opacity on 100%. Paint over the face and body to hide the light there.After this step your photo manipulation should be similar to the image shown below.

Step 20 – Light on Hair

To make the light effect on woman’s hair more realistic you need to brighten the left part bit more. You’ll focus on it in this step.Add new empty layer on the top of all layers and name it LIGHT ON HAIR. Change its Blending Mode from Normal to Color Dodge again. Grab the Brush Tool (B), select soft round brush, set its Opacity on 20% and pick bright orange color. Paint around the edge of left side of woman’s hair and face. On the following image you can see where you should paint.

Step 21 – Adding Dust

In this step you’ll add more details to your picture by adding dust texture behind the woman. It also helps to create an atmosphere of old, forgotten library.Download the Dust Texture listed in the beginning of this tutorial and drag it into your photo manipulation. Place it on the top of all layers and name it DUST. Press Ctrl+T to activate the Free Transform Tool and rotate the texture on left side (see image below). Press Enter to apply the changes. Right click on the layer DUST and choose the option Duplicate layer. Click on the just duplicated layer, press Ctrl+T on your keyboard and rotate it on the right side.

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