Someday - Rocketship Photoshop Tutorial

“You can never heal completely. The scars will always stay behind, just to remind you how cruel the time was once to you. But someday, you will learn to see beauty in the world that gave you these scars. And your eyes will shine with no lies in them. That day, you become beautiful. With baring all the scars, Which you always tried to hide from everyone.” In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create a magical scene. First, we added window and rocket, then blended with adjustment layers. After that we added stars and sky, then place a model. For the last effect, we added a Camera Raw filter.

Preview of Final Image

Tutorial Resources

Step 1

Now, let’s start by creating a new image file, go to the Menu bar and click File > New, and then input the following values on their respective fields

Preset: Custom
Width: 3936px
Height: 4920px
Resolution: 72px
Color Mode: RGB Color 8 bit
Background Contents: Transparent

Step 2

Now, place Window Go to File > Place and select Window. Then place it to our work canvas and position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and rasterize like the image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to rasterize all sides together.

Then use a Pen Tool(P) and start selecting window. When we finish the selection press right click on mouse and “Make Selection” then create layer mask.The simplest path you can draw with the standard Pen tool is a straight line, made by clicking the Pen tool to create two anchor points. By continuing to click, you create a path made of straight line segments connected by corner points.

Step 3

Now, place Rocket under "Window" layer Go to File > Place and select Rocket, Then place it to our work canvas and position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and rasterize like the image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to rasterize all sides together.

Step 4

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint on Sky.

Step 5

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint Rocket smoke.

Step 6

Add Adjustment Layer "Color Balance"

Step 7

Now, create some lights. Create a new layer then go to Edit > Fill and Contenst: 50% Gray and press Ok.

Now use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and Brush Opacity set to 10-20%. Then start painting lights. Take a look at the example in the picture below how much you need to paint, where there is the most white color, draw the most. Blend mode change to Overlay.

Step 8

Next select Rocket layer and use Rectangular Marquee Tool then select Sky and press Ctrl/Cmd + J to duplicate it. After that use Transform Tool(Ctrl/Cmd + T) Hold Alt + Shift and rasterize like the image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to rasterize all sides together.

Step 9

Now, place Stars Go to File > Place and select Stars, Then place it to our work canvas and position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and rasterize like the image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to rasterize all sides together.

Blend mode change to Screen.

Step 10

In this step repeat the same proccess. Go to File > Place and select Sky. Then place it to our work canvas and position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and rasterize like the image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to rasterize all sides together. Blend mode change to Overlay and create a layer mask. Use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color black and delete the bottom part of sky.

Step 11

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves"

Step 12

Select Window layer and create another Adjustment Layer "Color Balance"

Step 13

Add Adjustment Layer "Hue/Saturation"

Step 14

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint edges on window.

Step 15

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint edges on window.

Step 16

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint.

Step 17

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint.

Step 18

Next, create more lights. Create a new layer then go to Edit > Fill and Contenst: 50% Gray and press Ok.

Step 19

Now, go to File > Open and select Model. Then use a Pen Tool(P) and start selecting the Woman. When we finish the selection press right click on mouse and “Make Selection” then create layer mask..The simplest path you can draw with the standard Pen tool is a straight line, made by clicking the Pen tool to create two anchor points. By continuing to click, you create a path made of straight line segments connected by corner points.

Select the Pen tool.
Position the Pen tool where you want the straight segment to begin, and click to define the first anchor point (do not drag).
Click again where you want the segment to end
Continue clicking to set anchor points for additional straight segments.
The last anchor point you add always appears as a solid square, indicating that it is selected. Previously defined anchor points become hollow, and deselected, as you add more anchor points
Complete the path by doing one of the following:
To close the path, position the Pen tool over the first (hollow) anchor point. A small circle appears next to the Pen tool pointer when it is positioned correctly. Click or drag to close the path.
To leave the path open, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) anywhere away from all objects. To leave the path open, you can also select a different tool.

Feather Radius set to 0px and check Anti-alliased. After the selection area has been created, simply copy (Ctrl / Cmd + C) and Paste (Ctrl / Cmd + V) it to our work canvas. Then position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and resterize like image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to resterize al sides together.

Step 20

Add Adjustment Layer "Exposure"

Step 21

Add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint the right side looking at the light.

Step 22

Add more lights, add Adjustment Layer "Curves" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint the right side looking at the light.

Step 23

Add Adjustment Layer "Color Balance"

Step 24

Add Adjustment Layer "Hue/Saturation" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint darken side, left.

Step 25

Add Adjustment Layer "Hue/Saturation"

Step 26

Add Adjustment Layer "Hue/Saturation" and press Ctrl/Cmd + I to invert. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color white and paint lighten side, right.

Step 27

Create a new layer then use a Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color black and Size to 3000px. Then paint to left corner.

Step 28

Add Adjustment Layer "Gradient Map" Blend mode change to Soft Light with Opacity 30%.

Step 29

Add last Adjustment Layer "Gradient Map" Blend mode change to Soft Light with Opacity 12%.

Step 30

When we finished all this, now merge all layers to one. Select the last layer and hold CTRL/CMD + SHIFT + ALT + E. Now we have a final layer, right click on mouse and select Convert to Smart Object. Then go to Filter > Camera RAW Filter. At its most basic, the Photoshop Camera Raw filter allows you to use the functions of the ACR interface at any time within Photoshop.

Step 31

Now in Camera Raw Filter, set the Value: Basic

Temp: +2
Exposure: -0.20
Highlights: -28
Shadows: +10
Texture: +8
Clarity: +8
Vibrance: +15
Saturation: -10

Curve

Highlights: +5
Lights: +2

Detail

Sharpen: 7

Color Mixer

Saturation
Reds: +5
Oranges: +2
Yellows: +10
Greens: +7
Aquas: -+11
Blues: -20

Luminance
Oranges: -8
Yellows: +2

Radial Filter

Exposure: +0.10
Contrast: +5
Shadows: +11
Blacks: +2

And finally, everything should look like this.

Final Results

Download the PSD

Someday Tutorial.zip