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Create a Halloween Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create a Halloween Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
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Step 14 - The Grave House

Place the Grave House image at here.
step 14
Change the Inner Shadow in Blending Option of the Grave House to create a blue light reflects on it. This will serves as reflection for the light source we will create later.
step 14a
Brightness/Contrast
step 14b
Here is the result
step 14c

Step 15

Open the Fence image, use Magic Wand Tool and select all the white part and delete to extract the fence.
step 15
Place the fence on the hill. Friendly reminder : turn it to Smart Object before proceed.
step 15a
Duplicate the fence a few times and place it along the hill.
step 15b

Step 16

Apply adjustment layers to the fences. You can do it quickly by grouping all the fence layers, select all the layers and hit Ctrl + G then place the adjustment layers on top of it with "Create Clipping Mask"
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step 16b

Step 17 - Object Placing Time!

Time to fill up our document with some spooky objects! Open the Tombstones and Dead Tree image and start dropping them into the image.
step 17
step 17a

Step 18

Open the Dig Grave image and place it in these spots
step 18
Apply these adjustment layers to the dig grave near the tree outside.
step 18a
step 18b
step 18c

Step 19 - The Ravens, The Crows!

Open the Ravens & Crows image, pick some of them and place them on the tree, on the tombstone, or just let them fly as you desire!
step 19

Step 20

Place the Hayswagon into our document and apply some adjustment changes.
step 20
Brightness/Contrast - Curves
step 20a
step 20b

Step 21

We need some pumpkins on that hayswagon cause empty hayswagon looks sad! Open the Pumpkin On Hayswagon image and extract the pumpkin.
step 21
Place it on the hayswagon. Duplicate a few more pumpkins on it.
step 21a
step 21b
Group all the pumpkin layers into one group and apply these adjustment layers.
step 21c
step 21d

Step 22 - Evil Pumpkin Arrives!

Now to the main character of this piece! Open the Pumpkin image and extract the pumpkin.
step 22
Place it into our document, near the tombstone.
step 22a

Step 23

Apply the following adjustment layers for the pumpkin layer.
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Step 24 - Light It Up!

We will create a glowing light effect for the pumpkin. Create a new layer and grab the Pen Tool, draw the pumpkin's mouth, nose and eyes like this.
step 24
Fill the path with White color.
step 24a
Apply Gaussian Blur.
step 24b

Step 25

Apply these changes to the layer's Blending Option. Outer Glow
step 25
Inner Shadow
step 25a
And here's the result : a scary glowing pumpkin!
step 25b

Step 26

Duplicate a few more pumpkins and place them around, resize and transform them to fit with the positions.
step 26
Create a new layer and use a Soft Brush with color #c98315 and paint under the pumpkins. Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light with 70% Opacity.
step 26a

Step 27 - The Mist Comes.

Place the Fog image into our document, resize it like below.
step 27
Change the Blend Mode of the fog layer to Screen with 30% Opacity, 75% Fill
step 27a
You will notice there're rough edges from the Fog layers still around, so apply Layer Mask to get rid of them.
step 27b
Keep adding more fog into the image, place some behind the house too.
step 27c

Step 28

We're almost done! Its time for some color tuning! Apply these chain of adjustment layers for the whole image.
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Step 29

I use Color Lookup with "filmstock_50.3dl" to drastically shapern up the image. Color Lookup provides variety of color tuning effects to use in many situations. Reduce the Opacity to 60% and also apply some Layer Mask.

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21 comments on “Create a Halloween Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”

  1. There are about 3 links that don't seem to work for me. I can't seem to know why for example the house. Even the link that Henk posted doesn't work for me. Very confused and worried as I have to finish a project.

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  2. Thanks for sharing such informative post its help me to know deeply Photoshop work step by step.those are very useful for me! :)

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  7. Great tutorial!! However I need some help on Step 18. I am not familiar with using the Perspective tool and I can't get it to conform to the landscape. Can you give us some tips on how to do this?

    Thank You

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  9. I have reahed the stage of lighting the windows in the witch house, I make a new layer and use the pen tool to draw around the window but I cant replicate the yellow light that is supposed to be emmited. I follow the instrutction to the letter and have tried many times. I also dont have the red colour with the brush tool when applying masks. Please help :(

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    1. Hi Jules,

      After you've finished drawing with pen, just right click on the draw path and choose Fill Path, you should be able to fill with drawing path with the color in the tutorial provided.

      Also, the red color in the layer mask is just a sample for better visual view, its actually the black color you use when masking.

      Let me know if there's anything more you want to know, contact me via my email : [email protected].

      Best,

      Antaka

  16. It seems like you forgot to include the Witch House in the tutorial resources.

    Thanks for all the great tutorials!

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