Learn how to create this cinematic scene in quick and easy steps! This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to blend images to create an apocalyptic scene and add flying meteors with premade Photoshop brushes. You’ll also learn several different ways to add lighting effects and create a strong atmosphere.
Preview of Final Results
Tutorial Resources
Step 1 – Creating Background
Create new document in Photoshop. Download photo of the sky listed in the beginning of the tutorial and drag it into your new Photoshop document. Name this new layer SKY. It’s a great habit to name all your layers because once you create something more complicated it saves you lot of time finding some layer you want to adjust.
Grab the Marquee Tool (M) and select down part of the sky without the rooftops. Press Ctrl+C to copy the selection and then Ctrl+V to paste it.
Place this new layer under SKY and name it BACKGROUND. Go to Edit > Free Transform or press Ctrl+T on your keyboard to activate the Free Transform Tool. Drag the bottom part of BACKGROUND to the bottom part of the image. On the photo below you can see what I mean.
It’s just a base over which you put the skyscrapers so you don’t need to worry that it looks weird. Add new empty layer on the top of all layers and name it RETOUCH. Grab the Stamp Tool (S) and clone out the rooftops. After this step your image should look similar like the one below.
Step 2 – Adding City
In this step I’ll show you little trick how to add photo of a city to this photo manipulation very easily and seamlessly without some complicated and time consuming masking. Download picture of the city listed in the beginning of the tutorial and drag it into your photo manipulation. Place it on the top of all layers and name it CITY 1. Right click on this layer and select option Duplicate layer. Name this new layer CITY 2 and place it on the top of all layers. Now let’s move on blending. You created two layers of the city because each one of them you’ll blend bit differently to achieve the best effect. Make CITY 2 invisible to be able to see only CITY 1 (click on the eye icon left to the layer name).
33 responses to “How to Create an Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”
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Love it
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it sux no images
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hi bro
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thank you , I am teaclother you have explained the tutorial thanks a lot.
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thank you , I am teaclother you have explained the tutorial thanks a
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It is very helpful tutorial and great idea for this tutorial….thanks a lot
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Interesting tutos and very well explained ! Congratulations!
But how can I get your stock (resources) pictures in Pelleron-Art? -
Very Nice
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I did your tutorial in the past, here: http://annewipf.deviantart.com/art/TMM-A3P2-Apocalyptic-Sci-Fi-Photomanipulation-408652475
But it seem we cannot see the tutorials published on photoshop-tutorials anymore. :(
I tried to contact photoshop-tutorial, but it doesn’t work. :(
Could you tell me if there is something to pay now, or what we can do? Thank you. -
Please re uploaded PSD file because when i click on download showing 404 error, this is best work for me i want check how did you do this
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Absolutely beautiful works.. This is what called “Creativity”.
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Great, thanks for all the helpful info!
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It’s an okay tutorial… Except I couldn’t follow it after Step 2. (including Step 2).
The instructions are so vague, and major steps are being skipped. I just can’t follow it.
You should really try to improve on that. I’d rather have too many details and too proper grammar than too little.-
Maybe you should try to find some specific youtube-workshops about this themes
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WOW this tutorial suck , couldn’t understand a thing
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Fantastic website. Lots of helpful information here.
I’m sending it to some buddies ans also sharing in delicious. And certainly, thank you for your sweat! -
This tutorial is okay, but it’s obviously lacking a LOT of information that’s required to even get close to the desired look that the author is showing.
The tutorial is best at showing some ideas of what you can do and how to do it, but it’s not showing an obvious step-by-step method to get the exact look (if you’re trying for that) of the picture the author created.
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Thoughtful tutorial. Hats off
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Excelente
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thanks for the tutorial!!
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Thank you very much, it’s really helpful!
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holy shit ! you are so great !
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Extremely Awesome Tutorial \m/ I love it
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Humm… We can see a reflection on the city..
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its totally amazin!!!!!
i have learnt a lot of effects through this and its awesome…… u have got a lot of ability and please teach me some….. -
Thank you for the great tutorial,keep it up
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hay.. in the begginig you say to create a new document.. can you please tell me the exact dimentions of the document coz i face difficulties with the begginig.. thnx a lot!
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I believe the author used an image dimension of 600×900 pixels.
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very nice!!!!
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Great tutorial!
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Thanks !!!!
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Thank you very much for the tutorial, very well explained :) I have not had any problems in understanding it, Thanks
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Good but I would change the meteors up so they aren’t the same copy.
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