Create a Mystical Rising Angel Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Learn how to create this mystical image of an angel rising to the heavens from inside a castle. This tutorial will show you how to create bright heavenly light and ambient lighting, blend images together to create an angel, and finish it off with a soft-focus photo effect.

Preview of Final Results

How to Create a Rising Angel Photo-manipulation in Photoshop

Tutorial Resources

Nightstock 701 - Nightstock
262-float - wolfcatstock
HQ Angel Wings Render - ~Requiem-K
394 look up - Wolfcatstock
Winter SnowFlake Brushes PS7 - KeepWaiting

Step 1

Now, let's start by creating a new image file, go to the Menu bar and click File > New, and then input the following values on their respective fields:

Preset: Custom
Width: 2480 pixels
Height: 3508 pixels
Resolution: 300pixels/inch
Color Mode: RGB Color
Background Contents: Transparent

Step 2

In this step, we will be creating the stairway inside the castle. To start, open "Nightstock 701" by Nightstock. Next activate the Move Tool by pressing V on your keyboard and then left-click on the stock image and then drag it to our canvas. Position the stock image as shown on the image below:

Step 3

Next, we will resize this image to fit our canvas. To start, activate the Transform tool by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + T. Once the Transform tool appears, a series of squares would appear on the sides of the stock image to be transformed. Drag the encircled square to the respective direction as shown below:

The resized image should appear like this:

Step 4

Now, we would need to image's angle and to do that we would need to activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) once again. Now, that it is activated, right click on the canvas to prompt the appearance of the Transform tool's contextual menu. Once it appears, click on Distort.

Now, let's distort the image:

The result:

Step 5

Next, we will fix the lighting on this stock image. To do that, select the image and then activate the Curves adjustment tool by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + M. Once it opens, drag the line to the point shown below or you may also input the following values on their respective boxes:

Channel: RGB
Output: 125
Input: 103

The result of that should be similar to the image below:

Step 6

Now, that we're done, select all the layers that we've made in this step and then press Ctrl/Cmd + G to group them. We would need to group the layers in order to avoid confusion in later steps. Rename the layer to "Background", renaming a group is similar to renaming a layer - simply double-click on the words: "Group 1" (you can find that on the layer window) to prompt a text box to appear and then type in the name you want to put.

Step 7

Now, we will be creating the girl who pretended to be a mortal and now is bewildering the woman below on such a holy sighting. To start, let's open "262-float" by wolfcatstock. Now, that it is open, activate the Polygonal Lasso tool (L) because we would use this to select the woman and isolate her from her background.

Now, let's create a selection area around the woman:

Step 8

Now, that we've made a selection area around the woman, activate the Move tool (V) and drag the woman to our canvas. Once on the canvas, rename this layer to "woman". Note: Renaming a layer is similar to renaming a group; simply double click on the word: "Layer _" and then input the name you want to put.

12 comments on “Create a Mystical Rising Angel Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”

Joy Nails says:

September 30, 2017 at 7:50 am

How do you print the photo to capture the effects? What type of printer?

Elapu Tomthy says:

July 30, 2017 at 3:41 am

FOR ME ILIKE ET CECOMADOOO

PsdZip says:

July 29, 2017 at 7:07 am

just like a historical heritage

Ravi Ahir says:

July 29, 2017 at 7:06 am

such a great munipulation

Bestonlinegamesnews says:

July 27, 2017 at 5:30 pm

Thanks for the info

1. Brìäñ Shäwä says:
  
  July 27, 2017 at 9:44 pm
  
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Maidul Islam says:

September 21, 2014 at 9:36 pm

Beautiful, creative and acutely enjoy able!thanks for sharing!

Robert says:

November 3, 2013 at 6:30 pm

A good theme well thought out & executed. A sublime result! Tutorial very easy to follow

Nero says:

August 8, 2013 at 10:59 pm

Please help, how can i use Winter SnowFlake Brushes PS7??

Racquel says:

June 9, 2013 at 10:08 pm

Was easy to do this! And that says a lot since I've only started learning to use Photoshop CS6 a WEEK ago! Great tutorial Michael!

Mike says:

February 27, 2013 at 2:06 pm

Great tutorial that was very well described. It was so well instructed all skill levels could work through it. I really enjoyed the finished result too. I would love to see more from you Michael.

Well done Sir!

Jonathan Guzzard says:

January 16, 2013 at 9:06 am

great,thanks(some steps had easy alternatives, you just made it complicated,any ways thanks a trillion)