Learn how to create this photo manipulation of a feet shoe. This tutorial will show you basic photo manipulation techniques that you can use on your own projects. A PSD is included with this tutorial.

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Feet Shoe Photoshop Tutorial

Resources

• Shoes - Michal Adamczyk
• Feet - Kaitlyn Watson

Step 1

Let's get started by set up settings pen tool as you seen in the image below

Step 2

Open Shoe picture and Select just the part that we need

Step 4

Right click then select "Make Selection".

Set the radius to 0 pixels then click OK.

Step 5

Add new Mask to the Layer.

Step 6

Select Quick Mask Mode by Pressing on "Q" then start removing parts from shoe layer as you see in the image below.

Step 7

Press "Q" and Remove the parts you have Selected before

Step 8

Do the same thing as i did before in the second step

Step 9

Remove Mask from layer by dragging Mask layer to delete icon under the box layers

Step 10

Drag Shoe Layer into Feet Picture and and flip it a little bit

Step 11

Select Shoe Layer and Apply the settings Drop Shadow: Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow

• Color: #000000
• Blend Mode: Soft Light
• Opacity: 75%
• Angle: 120 without use Global Light
• Distance: 20px
• Spread: 0px
• Size: 5px

Step 12

Again Select Quick Mask Mode "Q" and hide part from the foot as you see in the image below

Step 13

Ok let's give shoe some realistic by Select the top part from shoe then duplicate layer by pressing CTRL+J and Apply the settings layer Style as you see in the image below

Step 14

You will get this result

Step 15

Select Brush Tool with white color and Add some blur to the part we have selected before

Step 16

You did i great job, let's go back to the original shoe picture, but in this step we're going to Select just Shoe Lace from the picture

Step 17

Copy and past into Feet Picture then add new mask as usual and Select Brush Tool with a Black Color and start removing parts from shoe lace

Step 18

Do the same thing as we did before on the Left Side

Step 19

Let's add shadow. Select part from shoe lace and change color to black then apply the settings Gaussian Blur and change opacity Layer to 30%

Step 20

Do the same thing on the left side

Step 31

Select Shoe layer and Go to Select > Modify > Contract and type in the following value "Contract by: 1 pixels"

Step 32

Inverse Layer by going to Select > Inverse Or Shift+CTRL+I then apply the settings Gaussian Blur as you see in the image below

• Radius: 1.1 pixels

Step 33

Drag all Layer into new group and Duplicate that group and move it on the left side and flip it a little bit as usual.

Step 34

All right, let's move to the next step. Select Quick Mask Mode and Hide part from the foot as we did before.

Step 35

Select Polygonal Lasso Tool and select part from Tree trunk Filp it a little as you see in the image below

Step 36

Add new mask to the layer,Select Brush tool and active Quick mask mode and start removing parts from the layer

Step 37

Create new layer and go to Image > Apply Image and Select Channel: blue and change mode to Soft Light and Opacity to 50%

Step 38

Add Gradient Map 1 and change Mode Layer to Soft Light and Opacity to 30%

Add Gradient Map 2 and change Mode Layer to Soft Light and Opacity to 20%

Step 39

Apply the settings Levels as you see in the image below

Step 40

Let's Finish this by given work a beautiful view, Add new text and apply the settings layers style as you see in the image below

Step 41

Change Opacity Fill to 20%

Final Results

As difficult as it looks I'm very sure if you follow my tutorial you will find a lot of help using your skills and images to produce your own creation!

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