Photoshop Tutorials: Create a Mystical Rising Angel Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create a Mystical Rising Angel Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 12:10 PM PDT

Preview of Final Results

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How to Create a Rising Angel Photo-manipulation in Photoshop

Tutorial Resources

Nightstock 701 – Nightstock
262-float – wolfcatstock
HQ Angel Wings Render – ~Requiem-K
394 look up – Wolfcatstock
Winter SnowFlake Brushes PS7 – KeepWaiting

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: 2480 pixels
Height: 3508 pixels
Resolution: 300pixels/inch
Color Mode: RGB Color
Background Contents: Transparent

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Step 2

In this step, we will be creating the stairway inside the castle. To start, open “Nightstock 701″ by Nightstock. Next activate the Move Tool by pressing V on your keyboard and then left-click on the stock image and then drag it to our canvas. Position the stock image as shown on the image below:

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Step 3

Next, we will resize this image to fit our canvas. To start, activate the Transform tool by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + T. Once the Transform tool appears, a series of squares would appear on the sides of the stock image to be transformed. Drag the encircled square to the respective direction as shown below:

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The resized image should appear like this:

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Step 4

Now, we would need to image’s angle and to do that we would need to activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) once again. Now, that it is activated, right click on the canvas to prompt the appearance of the Transform tool’s contextual menu. Once it appears, click on Distort.

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Now, let’s distort the image:

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The result:

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Step 5

Next, we will fix the lighting on this stock image. To do that, select the image and then activate the Curves adjustment tool by pressing Ctrl/Cmd + M. Once it opens, drag the line to the point shown below or you may also input the following values on their respective boxes:

Channel: RGB
Output: 125
Input: 103

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The result of that should be similar to the image below:

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Step 6

Now, that we’re done, select all the layers that we’ve made in this step and then press Ctrl/Cmd + G to group them. We would need to group the layers in order to avoid confusion in later steps.

Rename the layer to “Background”, renaming a group is similar to renaming a layer – simply double-click on the words: “Group 1″ (you can find that on the layer window) to prompt a text box to appear and then type in the name you want to put.

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