Create a Magical and Emotional Forest Scene of a Lost Girl in Photoshop

Add a layer mask to the hair layer and then using a soft round black brush to hide the unwanted shown in the image below.

Step 20

I added a Gaussian blur filter to the hair. To do this, right-click on the hair layer and choose convert to smart object. Then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set the radius to 0.5 and here are the results.

Step 21

Now add a Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to the hair. Set the setting as shown in the image below.

Here are the results.

Step 22

Now, place the brown (Top) hair to the model and then use a layer mask to blend it to model hair as we have done in previous steps. I have also used the Gaussian Blur filter about 0.5 for this Hair. Here are the results.

Step 23

Add a Color Balance Adjustment layer to the hair. Here are the values. Reduce the opacity of Color Balance to 75%.

Here are the results.

Step 24

Now, duplicate the brown layer and move it to the left then blend it using a layer mask. Here are the results.

Step 25

Now add a Brightness/Contrast and Color Balance Adjustment layer to the hair. Set the values as shown in the image below. I have also selected the shadow tone in Color Balance and only changed the cyan/red tone to +7. Reduce the opacity of Color Balance to 60%.

Here are the results. So, we have fixed the hair. That's my technique for fixing the hair by combining refine mask and already painted hairs.

Step 26

Now, place the nebula 1 image to the main document. Use the free transform tool by pressing (Ctrl + T or Edit > Transform > Free Transform) to resize the image as shown in the image below so it can cover the entire scene.

Now, change the blend mode to overlay and reduce the opacity to 60%. Here are the results.

Step 27

Add a layer mask to the nebula 1 and hide the selected center part. You can also see the result below.

Add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer to the nebula 1 image. Set setting as shown in the image below.

Here are the results.

Step 28

Extract the Lamp using your favorite selection tool and place it on the canvas.

Create a new layer below the lamp layer. Use basic soft round black brush with opacity and flow to 30% to paint some shadows for the lamp. You can see the results below.

Step 29

Add a Brightness/Contrast and Photo Filter adjustment layer to the lamp. Set the values as shown in the image below.

Here are the results.

Step 30

Let's make a glow on the lamp. Create a new layer and choose the soft round brush tool with opacity and flow to 30% then change your foreground color to #583f1f and size to 300 pixels. Make a stroke on the lamp and then change the blend mode to Linear Dodge. Here are the results.

Create a new layer again. Choose the same setting for brush tool in the previous step and use the same color to paint some more light on the ground, model hair, arms, hands, legs wherever the light reflected by the lamp.

I painted some more light on the lamp. You can see the image below. So, we have achieved a basic light effect but it doesn't look realistic but looks better. Here comes the advanced lighting techniques and we'll make it more realistic using nebula 2 images in the next couple of steps.

14 comments on “Create a Magical and Emotional Forest Scene of a Lost Girl in Photoshop”

PeterKaye406 says:

October 16, 2020 at 9:26 am

Can't find the hair PSD?

Putera says:

February 24, 2016 at 5:26 am

How to hidden effect at step 7 ,thank's iam use photoshops cs 6

1. Anonymous says:
  
  May 19, 2020 at 8:46 am
  
  layer mask my friend. You can see the adjustment on the bottom right
irina says:

September 11, 2015 at 10:37 am

красивый урок!!!!!!!!!!!!!! спасибо.

Photoshop Tutorials Staff says:

August 21, 2015 at 6:53 pm

Sorry about that. All of the images should be fixed.

Iulian says:

August 21, 2015 at 6:42 am

there are images missing

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August 21, 2015 at 3:03 am

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Aram says:

August 19, 2015 at 12:55 pm

Some images are not loading, please work at them.

Shadey Pics says:

August 18, 2015 at 11:00 am

thanks for the great tutorials :)

Gabriela de Aquino says:

August 18, 2015 at 9:45 am

Rafael Soares ó uma pegada que te falei que ia fazer

Ankush says:

August 17, 2015 at 8:49 pm

Awesome tutorial

Ines Martinez says:

August 17, 2015 at 12:04 pm

me encanto gracias

Abo OD says:

August 17, 2015 at 8:32 am

amizing

Bunty Pundir says:

August 17, 2015 at 8:28 am

Hey Denny

Some of the step images not loading