- Clicking with the Quick Selection Tool will add to the selection
- Holding Alt/Option and clicking will subtract the selection
- You can quickly change the size of your brush holding Alt/Option, clicking anywhere in the canvas with the right mouse button, and dragging to the left to decrease the size of the brush, and to the right to increase it
Copy and paste the turtle into our image and use the Free Transform Tool (Ctrl/Command+T) to increase her size a little bit (see the image below for reference). Now use the Move Tool (V) to place the turtle in the ocean.
Now comes the fun part! Create a layer mask to the turtle layer and with a soft brush paint the bottom part of the turtle with black.
Right now the edge between the turtle and the ocean is not looking good. To fix this we’re going to change the opacity of our brush to around 30% and start painting some areas with white and/or black.
Take your time in this step, it’s kind of tricky but it’s essential for your final image to look good. My turtle turned out like in the image below, but don’t worry if your image doesn’t look exactly like mine.
Now let’s adjust the colors. First, let’s add a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer (non-destructively, as always). Select the first gradient from the second row and clip this layer to our turtle layer (see the images below for the rest of the steps).
Your turtle must be looking like this now:
Add a Curves Adjustment Layer to the shell of the turtle. First, check the image below to see the line values of the Curves Adjustment Layer, and then paint the layer mask of this adjustment with black everywhere except the shell.
Remember to clip this adjustment layer with our turtle just like what we did with the Gradient Map.
Your turtle should now look like this:
Add a Color Balance Adjustment Layer (see the image below for the input values) and this time we don’t want the adjustment to affect the shell, so we’re going to paint it black.
Again, remember to clip the adjustment layer to the turtle.
Now your image should be looking something like this:
And to finish this step, like we did last time, group all these new layers (select them and press Ctrl/Command+G) into a new group called Turtle.
Step 5 Add the picture frame of our hanging picture
In this step, we’re going to start adding some smaller elements into our image. We’re going to start by adding the picture, the ropes holding it, the pigeon, and some smoke coming out of the picture.
