Create an Eerie Photoshop Manipulation of a Dark Queen in a Cemetery

Create an Eerie Photoshop Manipulation of a Dark Queen in a Cemetery
Create an Eerie Photoshop Manipulation of a Dark Queen in a Cemetery
step22b

Do similar ways for the other foreground tomb.

step22c

Background Tombs

Next select the main background tomb to be active on it. Create a new layer with a clipping mask above this layer. Take a very soft round brush set to 10% opacity. On this layer paint soft white color to give the tomb some highlight. Give this layer some Gaussian blur. Go to filter > blur > Gaussian blur. Set the value to about 1-2 pixels. Give the farther background tomb 1-2 pixels Gaussian blur as well.

step22d

Skeletons

Then, proceed to give the skeleton layer some adjustments. Make sure to be active on this layer. Give it hue/saturation adjustment layer with a clipping mask. Duplicate the hue/saturation layer one time. Set the main layer to normal at 100% opacity and the duplicate to soft light at 100% opacity.

step22e

With similar step in adding highlight on the background tomb, do the same way to add some highlight on the skeletons where needed.

step22f

The Ground and Adding More Graveyards.

I decided to make the ground less visible so I reduce the opacity of the ground layer to about 60% opacity and do some more transparent masking on it. Here is the result I created for the ground now indicated by blue arrows. Finally, I decided to add distant graveyards on the left and right side of the scene pointed by red arrows.

step22g

The Figure

Finally we will do some adjustment for the figure. Go and be active on the figure layer again. Create a new layer with a clipping mask above the layer. On this new layer we will paint some highlight and shadow for the figure. To do this, take a very soft round brush set to 10-15% opacity. Paint soft black and white color to areas on the figure to give it the shadow and highlight. The pointing black arrows indicate where we should paint some shadow while the white ones show us where the highlight should be painted.

step22h

Next, create another new layer with a clipping mask filled with black. Set this new layer to color dodge. Take a very soft round brush and paint some soft blue color on the figure. Here is the normal and color dodge blending of this layer will look for our inspiration where we should paint the color.

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16 comments on “Create an Eerie Photoshop Manipulation of a Dark Queen in a Cemetery”

  1. HIIIII!! there is a huge problem.... the first four images --I think the free image website ones are not available could you please make the stock image available and let me know when you've done that. I need this for a business project!!!!! VERRRRRYYYY IMPORTANTTTTTT!!!!!!!

    1. Hi Taylor,

      Unfortunately broken links are a common issue with free images. We recommend searching for other similar images.

  2. Wow great tutorial. I am too a Photoshop artist, but i am only 17 years old and don't have so much skills. On my Website are projects from me (jan.leibacher.ch) its on german, but it have possibilty to translate the site :)

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