[Tutorial] Colorful and Glamour Photo Manipulation and Composition Style in Photoshop

Composition style is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients to make different works of art. It depends on each artist and elements used. Today with this Photoshop Tutorial i will show you my way to combine background, brushes, transform tools and filters to make a colorful and glamor composition style in Photoshop.

Resources needed:
Girl LINK
Vector background LINK

Step 1:

Create a new document with 413x621 px, fill it with white. Then create a new gradient fill layer:

 Step 2:
Cut the model and move into our document:

Step 3:

Duplicate the model layer, desaturated it, apply Gassian Blur with 4 px. Then set this layer to Soft Light 100%.

 Step 4:

Create a new blank layer, choose hard brush with 47 px, and adjust settings by pressing F5:

 Use different colors to paint over the pic:

 Step 5:
Duplicate this layer and set Motion blur:

This is what we have:

Step 6:

Paste the vector background into our document. Set it to Hard light 100%, add a layer mask to erase the right bottom of the pic and duplicate it. Move these two layers under the girl ones.

 Step 7:

Make a new blank layer, use Soft Brush 130 px, with colors 878cf3, fd71e8, fdeb71 to make three spots like the pic below:

Step 8:

New layer again, use Rectangular Marquee Tool to grab a square and then use Soft Brush to spot within this square: 

Press Ctrl+T to transform it to make it look like the pic i did:

Duplicate it three times and set positions:

Merge all light layers, set it to Soft Light 100%. Move it to the middle of brush spots:

Step 9:

New layer again, set brush with parameters as shown and then use white color to paint over the light :

Set Outer glow for this layer:

Step 10:

Choose light layer and brush spots layers:

Press Ctrl+G to make group for these three layers.
Duplicate it 4 times and arrange their positions, resize one and move to the girl hair:

Step 11:

Now we're almost done! I added a Selective color layer to make the pic look nicer with slightly vintage look:

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