Step 12
Now take the Burn Tool with settings provided and burn the areas marked with red.
Your wall should look like this now.
Step 13
Now to the floor layer. To get the colours match, go to and take Hue to -163, Saturation to -100 and Lightness to -43. Burn the red areas with previous Burn Tool settings.
Step 14
Your floor should look like this now – with an annoying white gap.
Go to the background layer, hit D on your keyboard to get black as your main colour and take the Paint Bucket tool (G) and paint the background black with one simple click.
Step 15
Go to Wall Crest layer and add a Drop Shadow layer style for the “window effect”. Then choose -85 and -63 as its Brightness and Contrast ().
Your room should look like this now.
I darkened the sky very little bit.
Step 16
Open the model image and select her with the marquee tool. Press Ctrl + C to copy. Don’t select the legs as she is going to be a creepy doll and people without legs intensify the “freaky” feeling. Paste the model on top of all the other layers (Ctrl + V). Fun fact: the model is my best friend Birgitta, wearing my graduation dress in an abandoned machine factory.
Step 17
Grab the Pen Tool (P) and make sure these settings are used. Carefully go over the outlines of the model. I prefer the Pen Tool because it gives you effortless and fast selecting – and if you misclick, you can just press Ctrl + Z and continue (unlike the Lasso Tool).
Leave the veil as is, it’s almost humanly impossible to cut it out (and it’s not the point of this tutorial either).
Step 18
Here the ends meet – click on the first point to complete the path.
You will have a nice line that indicates your path is closed. Now right click anywhere on the image and choose “Make Selection” from the drop-down menu. Make sure you use the settings shown for the feather radius.
This is your selection now; hit Ctrl + Shift + I and then Delete. I usually press Delete twice.
Step 19
This is how it looks when cut out.
Step 20
Take the dress form and place it on a new layer under the model.
