Turn any photo into a dot grid artwork with these Photoshop actions. You'll get great results with dots that change size. They get larger in brighter areas and smaller in darker areas. Free download available.
Preview of Final Results

Tutorial Resources
Step 1
Create a new document with size of 1000x1000 px and fill it with white (or any color you like). Open desert stock. Use Retangular Marquee Tool to choose the ground part and use Move Tool (V) to drag it into our white canvas. Press Cmd/Ctrl+T to resize and rotate it as shown below:

Step 2
Click the second button at the bottom of Layer Pallete to add mask to desert layer. Use black brush with hardness about 10-15% to erase the hard edge of the desert. The aim is to achieve a soft edge so it will be blended better with background. You can see how I did it on layer mask and result on picture:

Step 3
To create some depth for the picture choose Filter-Blur-Gassian Blur and pick radius as 2 px:


Step 4
There is a part which does not look good on the ground so hit Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N to make a new layer above the desert one with Clipping Mask:


Step 5
I used an adjustment layer to darken the desert. On clone layer, go to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Curves:



Step 6
I made a Hue/Saturation layer (Clipping Mask) to reduce saturation of the ground:

Step 7
Now add a Color Balance layer to change color of the desert:

Step 8
Open sky stock. Use Move Tool to place it on the top of the picture and rotate it as I'm doing below or feel free to transform it to get your desired look
Step 9
To darken some parts of the sky I used a Curves layer with Clipping Mask:


Step 10
Open the stock pack included the pagan symbol. Take it and place it near foreground after transforming:
Step 11
To make shadow for this symbol, create a new layer under this one. Hold Cmd/Ctrl while clicking the symbol layer to load its selection:




Step 12
I used a Curves layer (Clipping Mask) to brighten this symbol.


Step 13
Add a Hue/Saturation layer to change color of this symbol:

10 comments on “Create an Intense Fallen Angel Composition in Photoshop”
This is a great tutorial. The desert and wings stock links don't work but I found other ones to use.
Awesome Post. Lighting is most beautiful. Thanks for the Post.
So Good Tutorial Photoshop
where can i download files required
Hey Jenny,
Could I use this tutorial and create a front cover for my bands album? Thanks :)!
Thank you for this great tutorial that I tried:
http://cartes-mireilled.eklablog.com/composition-d-un-ange-dechu-avec-photoshop-a106623770
please give me download options
Nice tutorial
I love your tuts Jenny!
Beautiful work and tutorial!