Create a Mysterious Fashion Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create a Mysterious Fashion Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Create a Mysterious Fashion Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Select one of the brushes you've just installed, pick light blue color and paint some birds to the top right corner. Then pick some dark blue or dark brown and paint another birds in the center of the image.

On the following picture you can see how the manipulation looks so far.

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Step 19 - Darkening the Picture

To have the right dramatic atmosphere the picture should be bit more darker and with higher contrast. You'll fix it in this step.

First of all add new adjustment layer Selective Color on the top of all layers and set it as shown below.

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Sky could have more contrast. Add new adjustment layer Gradient Map on the top of all layers and set the gradient similarly to the one shown below. Then change Blending Mode of this layer on Soft Light and lower its Opacity on 50%.

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Gradient Map should adjust only the backgrount not the woman. She would be contrasted more than it's pretty. To avoid that grab the Brush Tool (B), pick black color and paint on the layer mask of this adjustment layer to hide parts you want to let as they were before.

According to me the picture is bit too saturated right now. To fix it add new adjustment layer Hue/Saturation and set the value Saturation on -25.

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After this step your image should be similar to the one below.

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Step 20 - Adding the Flash

As I've already mentioned few times you're trying to create storm weather condition. But two key elements are still missing - rain and flash. You'll add two flashes and rain in this and following steps.

Download the picture of flash and drag it into your manipulation. Place it on the top of all layers and name it e.g. BIG FLASH. Press Ctrl + T and resize it and also rotate it to it has similar position and direction as on the preview picture.

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You need to blend it properly. It would be quite hard to do it with the Lasso Tool (L) and you would loose the aura arround the flash. Because of that you'll change Blending Mode instead. Change it from Normal to Screen. You'll get something as on the following picture.

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As you can see there is the lighter rectangle still visible. To hide it add new adjustment layer Levels on the top of all layers and set the Input Levels on 62; 1,00; 255. The rectangle dissapears.

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10 comments on “Create a Mysterious Fashion Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”

  1. Thanks for stopping by!I use Lightroom and Photoshop for my pp'ing. I'm rlleay just learning still have found some actions that I like that I have actually rlleay learned a lot from using.

  2. struck in first step...plz tell me how u remove cloth and retain the straw..plz mail me the solution so that i can go for second step

  3. This is really amazing.. its great. but given model image resoulution is not enough for this type of design. Thanks..

    1. Those were very educational Terence! It was like you took us into atenhor world that we would never see & into the eyes of those that work up in the sky. The shot behind the crane operator was awesome and I loved the candid shots that you took. Amazing work my friend! Must have been quite the experience.

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