Terrifying Horror Photo Manipulation

Terrifying Horror Photo Manipulation
Terrifying Horror Photo Manipulation

Press E (= Eraser Tool) and erase some branches from LEFT BRANCHES and then different branches from RIGHT BRANCHES. This will add variety and it won´t look like that you use only one stock image (and you don´t need to cut out two pictures of branches).

Bellow you can see how your image should look so far:

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Step 7 - Blending Branches

Add layer mask to WOMAN. Grab the Brush Tool (B), select some soft round brush, lower the opacity on about 40% and pick black color. Now start painting over the areas of womans´ hands which should dissapear. Be very careful and work with low opacities and small sizes of brush to get natural result.

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Step 8 - Adding the Roots

Download the picture of roots and cut out the background. Drag the roots into your photomanipulation, place the layer on the top of your layers and name it ROOTS.

Add new adjustment layer Color Balance and set it as shown:

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Create clipping mask from this adjustment layer.

Now add adjustment layer Levels and set it as you can see bellow again. Create clipping mask from the layer.

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Add the last adjustment layer to the roots - Hue/Saturation and set the value Saturation on -45. Press OK and don´t forget to create clipping mask.

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Step 9 - Adding the Trunk

Download the photo of trunk, cut out the background and drag it into your manipulation. Place the layer on the top of your layers and name it TRUNK.

Add vector mask to TRUNK, press B (= Brush Tool), select soft round brush, pick black color and start blending TRUNK with WOMAN and ROOTS. Use smaller brush and lower opacity to be more precise and get more realistic result. Bellow you can see how the blending should look:

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Step 10 - Adjustment of the Trunk

In this step we will fix colors and contrast of the trunk to fit the rest of the image.

Add new adjustment layer Color Balance on the top of your layers and set it as you can see here:

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Create clipping mask from that layer.

Now add adjustment layer Hue/Saturation and set the value Saturation on -40 to lower the saturation. Create clipping mask again because you want to affect TRUNK only.

Add one more adjustment layer - Levels and set Input Levels on 18; 0,85; 214. Don´t forget to create clipping mask.

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5 comments on “Terrifying Horror Photo Manipulation”

  1. The branches, ravens and some brushes don't exists and its a pity that I cannot complete you very nice tutorial. Regards Magdalena

  2. Got this tutorial from the Google search engine.. but i really appreciate the work you have done in this Photoshop tutorial...

  3. Great tutorial but the raven link no longer exists. I think this tutorial would be suited to intermediate, definitely not a beginners tutorial.

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