How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
step24a

Set this cloud layer to screen blending at about 27% opacity.

step24b

Go to filter > blur > Gaussian blur.

step24c
step24d

Mask the cloud a bit. Let the cloud around the lower part of the building a bit thicker.

step24e

Step 25

To add more mist to the scene, we can use the background texture previously created. Duplicate the texture and position the duplicate above the cloud layer.

step25a

Set the texture to screen at about 30% opacity.

step25b

Step 26

Now we will do some color adjustments. First, we give the scene selective color layer. Place this layer above all the other layers. Set this layer to normal at above 55% opacity.

step26a
step26b

More two other adjustment layers: color balance and vibrance.

step26c
step26d

The result should be:

step26e

Step 27

Finally, after doing overall color adjustment, we will do some tweaking on the pirate house layer. We will add some lightning on it. We just make use of the provided cosmos image to achieve this. Duplicate the cosmos layer and place the duplicate above the gradient map layer within the pirate house folder. The part circled in red is the one we will use to create the light on the building. Make sure to give this cosmos layer a clipping mask.

step27a
step27b

Set the cosmos layer to overlay at 100%

step27c

Duplicate the cosmos layer and set the duplicate to color dodge. There it goes, the building got some light now. If we feel the light is very strong around certain parts, we can mask this duplicate layer round the parts.

step27d

Step 28

Create a new layer with clipping mask above the cosmos layers within the folder. On this layer, paint reddish orange color as the one below to give red highlight.

step28a

Provided this color, we should set this layer to soft light at 100% opacity.

step28b

To give more vivid red highlight, we can duplicate this provided color and set this duplicate to color dodge blending. Mask to some areas if we feel the color is overlapping to them.

step28c

Step 29

Finally, again, create a new layer with a clipping mask above the reddish layers within the folder. Take a very soft round brush. On this layer, paint subtle combination color of yellow white and a bit blue.

step29a

Referring to this provided color combination, we will set this layer to soft light to have result below:

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