Tutorial - Flying Girl Photo Manipulation

Make this wonderful image of a flying girl by mixing all the images and painting the girl itself within the photoshop









Resources needed:

    Castle LINK
    Sky LINK
    Bird LINK
    Umbrella LINK
    Pattern brush LINK
    Light brush LINK
    Sparklies brush LINK

Please Click Image To Enlarge Them

 Step 1:


Open the sky image in a new document. Draw the girl on a new layer.








Step 2:

I have turned off the girl layer for now. I have extracted the castle and erased the bottom and the sides of it with a soft brush.




HOW I EXTRACTED THE CASTLE


Open the castle image. Go to Channels and duplicate Blue Channel




Now Press CTRL+L to open levels. Set the values as shown.

 Now choose Magic Wand and select the sky.










Now go to Select > Inverse to select the castle.

 Now duplicate the background layer.

 Now add Layer Mask to the duplicated layer and hey ur castle is masked!







 Step 3:
Now i duplicated the sky layer and moved it a little up to cover the castle, and erased the whole sky except the fluffy clouds.





Step 4:

Download the sparklies brushes from obsidiandawn. Select the accent brush and draw some rays as shown below.

Download light beams brushes and draw the light beams.








 Now download the bird image and mask it, I have flipped it horizontally to match the light source and re-size it.

Keep duplicating and resizing the birds. Your image will look like this now.







Step 5:


Now download the umbrella image and extract and re-size it. Apply Color Overlay to it.






Now i start making the girl. Draw the top part of her dress using Pen Tool and apply Pattern Overlay. The patterns are downloaded from obsidiandawn. Start drawing her hair. Use different shades of brown. Paint her legs too with a base color








Paint her dress with a base color( I chose blue). Painted more details to her hair.







More painting to her hair. Use different colors of brown to add depth to her hair. Paint her hands too.

A closer view of her hair. Use Smudge Tool and take stipple brush and start smudging her hair.









Keep smudging her hair until u get the flying look. Paint her hands with low opacity. Select different shades of skin color for her hands or u can sample from my image and then paint.

Use Smudge Tool to blend the skin colors. Don't rush in to paint. Take your time to paint. Keep in mind the direction of light source.






Apply Pattern Overlay to her skirt. The pattern is downloaded from obsidiandawn. The settings are as shown.








Apply Satin Effect to the skirt. Settings are shown.











Add a new layer, mode is Soft Light. Paint her skirt with white brush with low opacity.

Now add a new layer again with Overlay Mode. Select black color and paint with low opacity.









Now your image looks like this.









Step 6:


Apply Photo Filter. Settings are shown.






Apply Brightness/Contrast









Apply Selective Color









Apply Color Balance. Settings are shown below.





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