How to Create an Out of This World, Medieval-Fantasy Themed Photo Manipulation

Next, activate the Brush tool (B) and then right click on the canvas. Once the menu is open, click on "Reset Brushes". See image below:

Next, activate the Brush tool (B) and then right click on the canvas. Once the menu is open, click on "Reset Brushes". See image below:

Brush size: 40px
Hardness: 0%
Opacity: 60%
Flow: 100%
#: fffee8
Zoom level: 50%

Now, to apply it:

Step 6: Create the Waves

Now that we're done with the ship, let's now create the waves. To start, create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N); name it "wave 1" and position it below the ship layer. Next, activate the Brush tool (B) and then right click on the canvas; click on Load Brushes and then open "Waves Brushes Sampler". Once those brushes have been loaded, choose the following brush:

Input the following brush settings before proceeding to the next step:

Brush size: 400px
Hardness: Default
Opacity: 100%
Flow: 100%
#: ffffff

See the image below as to where to apply the brush:

When you're done with that, activate the Transform tool and rotate the image as shown on the image below:

Now, we're going to erase some unwanted parts of "wave 1". Activate the Eraser tool (E) and input the following:

Brush size: 50px
Hardness:0%
Opacity: 100%
Flow: 100%

Now, reduce the Opacity of "wave 1". To do that, simply click on 100% beside the Opacity window and input 70%.

The image should now be similar to this:

Step 7: Create the Dragon

Now in this step, we're going to add a menacing dragon. Before we begin, let's create a group on top of the "Ship" group. To do that, simply click on the "Ship" group and press the "Create New Group" button on the lower part of the Layer window. See image below:

Once you're done, open "Dragon Stock T1P1". This stock image is a PNG file so when it opens you'd see four dragons on a transparent background, which means you, can just select a dragon and move it to our canvas. Now, to begin, activate the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L). See image below:

Now, to select the dragon, use the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) to create a selection area around the dragon shown on the image below:

Once you've done that, activate the Move tool (V) and move the dragon to our canvas. After moving, rename it to "Dragon 1". Now, activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) to resize the dragon as shown on the image below:

After that, rotate the dragon using the Transform tool (Ctrl + T). See image below:

For the dragon to blend in with the rest of the images, we will now edit its Brightness/Contrast. Go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast while the "Dragon 1" layer is active. Input the following:

Brightness: -30
Contrast: -50

The result should be like this:

Step 8: Create the Dragon's Fiery-breath

With the dragons done, let us now create the flames from the mouth of "Dragon 1". To start, first create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) on top of the dragon layer and name it "fire 1". After that, activate the Brush tool (B) and load the SS-flames brush set (Flames Fire Photoshop Brushes). Once you have the brushes loaded, activate the Brush tool (B) again and choose the following brush:

Now, that your cursor has now changed to that brush, you may now input the following:

Brush size: 400px
Hardness: 0%
Opacity: 100%
Flow: 100%
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Apply the brush on the position shown on the image below:

9 comments on “How to Create an Out of This World, Medieval-Fantasy Themed Photo Manipulation”

Anonymous says:

February 26, 2015 at 6:30 am

omg thnaks ur a genius!

Blah says:

December 17, 2013 at 3:12 pm

The url for the dragon stuff no longer exists...

Mahdy says:

June 20, 2013 at 4:14 am

Hey,
None of the resource links work for me...
Please upload the rest files somewhere else that we can also use it.

tyrell says:

February 22, 2013 at 8:38 am

very appealing and outstanding

Kelison says:

February 20, 2013 at 12:26 pm

Maybe this http://browse.deviantart.com/art/E-S-Dragon-III-Sky-145874452

or this

http://th04.deviantart.net/fs11/PRE/i/2006/170/d/3/Dragon_Stock_T1P1_by_Shoofly_Stock.jpg

Stevo says:

February 12, 2013 at 11:06 am

Outstanding piece of work :) Thank you for this tutorial :)

fajkus says:

January 15, 2013 at 9:34 am

hi
the dragon stock is missing.. can sombody give me the other working ling for this stock?

fidzzy says:

September 23, 2012 at 8:37 am

here is my picture, thankyou for this great tutorial. greetings from indonesia

fidzzy says:

September 16, 2012 at 3:06 am

thankyou, very useful tutorial. kewl.