Discover how to create stunning photo manipulations in Photoshop. In this course, you'll learn everything from photographing models to creating dark conceptual artworks. If you enjoy our photo manipulation tutorials, you will absolutely love this course.
What you’ll be creating
In this tutorial, we will create a fantasy scene of a pirate house dreamscape with dramatic warm, and vivid lightning. We will use some essential techniques for doing photo manipulation. We will use masking, brush tool, some filter, color adjustments all through the steps in this tutorial. Use Adobe Photoshop CS3 or higher, don’t forget a glass of coffee and optionally a pack of cigarette for your companion. Ready..?
Tutorial Resources
- Cloud – amka stock
- Waterscape – colourize stock
- Mountain Stock 1 – solanaceae85
- Pirita beach – mithgariel stock
- Ruin by the sea – gueenselphie
- The bridge of the fairies – leina1
- Tower – fairiegoodmother
- tree png – camelfobia
- Water fall – della stock
- Package Cosmos 8 – funerium
- Pirate Ships II – moonchilde stock
- Crack – smevstock
Step 1
On these early steps, we will create some ruined castles standing on a rocky mountain. We need this image to begin with. We will use this image as the rocky mountain.


Step 2
After cutting out the crack, we will start to create a rocky mountain with some ruins standing on it. We do this on a new canvas. Hit Ctrl+N to create a new canvas. Set the size of the canvas like the one sampled in the screenshot.




Step 3
Proceed to add some ruins to the rock. Cut out the ruin.


Step 4
Now select the first ruin and give it a layer mask by going to layer > layer mask > reveal all. Take the brush tool (B) and choose the chalk brush 17 pixels in the brush panel (F5). With black color, stroke the brush on areas where needed to mask them. The red highlighted parts show us the masked ones.




10 comments on “How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”
The way tutorial has been illustrated by the pictures it gives easy learning tips. Awesome!
Fantastic & original concept.Very inspiring.Thanks for sharing.
Wow! 7 hours hard work!
Thanks :)
nothing there, just get shadowed out stuff
Ted
please give ma the authentic link for downloadin the photoshop setup
Can't get past step 2 need help :(
Woooooow
This amazing
The most inspiring web ever. I tried to sign for for subscription but couldn't. Can I do it from here? Thanks
Wonderful tutorial, thank you so much for sharing it
Awesome manipulation, Dek wid.