How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation of the Eiffel Tower

Open Brush (B) chose Hard round brush as below :

Now a new layer and name it “Thread” then activate Pen tool and make a curve:

Now right click and chose Stock path from options.

When stock path box opens Select brush.

The result should be similar to this:

Right click and chose Delete path .

The result should be similar to this:

Make more threads following the same steps:

Step 8: Fix Key

First off, let’s open Skeleton Key stock in Photoshop. We will be using the key from this stock image so we will need to transfer it to our main canvas.

Click the Skeleton Key and press P to activate pen tool and then make a selection around the key and then click V to activate the Move Tool. Left-click the image and drag the image to the main canvas and change layer name to “Key”.

The result should be similar to this:

Next, activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd +T), then while the “Key” layer is selected and then resize it as shown below:

The result should be similar to this:

Now activate Erase tool (E) with these settings Now let’s erase :

• Brush size: 400px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 40%
• Flow: 100%
• Color: #000000

Now paint over the highlighted area.

The result should be similar to this:

Duplicate the “Key” layer (ctrl+j) and rename it “key2” see as below .

Step 9: Create Shadow’s

Now activate a new layer and name it “Shadow”. Activate Brush tool (B) with these settings:

• Brush size: 400px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 40%
• Flow: 100%
• Color: #000000

Now paint over the highlighted area.

The result should be similar to this:

Step 10: Enhance the Light and Color of the overall image

Now create a Solid color adjustment layer which can be found by pressing on the Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button shown on the layer window:

When the Solid color box opens, input the following:

The result should be similar to this:

Change the layer mode to “Exclusion” and reduce the opacity to 20% :

The result should be similar to this:

Step 11: Create a Vignette

Activate new layer and name it “Vignette” and fill it with white color (#ffffff).

Now go to Filter > Distort > Lens Correction :

When the Lens Correction box opens, input the following:

The result should be similar to this:

Change layer mode to “Multiply”:

The result should be similar to this:

Final Results

Tutorial by Vik Aadi

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