Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

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Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks.

Preview of Final Results

Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

 

 

Step 1 - Place the background

The first step it’s to place the sky, our background, into the image. As you can see, we have changed the color of it. We’re going to create a half of the image with a warm tone and another with a cool tone using the color balance tool. To do this, select the sky and then choose Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. Adjust the input sliders to add red and yellow. Select “highlights” and “shadows” then try adding more of these colors until you like the tones in your image.

Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

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Step 2 - Coloring the sky

Duplicate the layer with the sky. Now we are going to repeat the previous step with the color balance tool (Image > Adjustments > Color Balance) but this time adding blue and cyan tones. Remember to add some color to highlights and shadows as well.

Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

Select the eraser tool then, in the option bar, select a blurred brush like shown below:

Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

Now use the eraser tool to erase the left side of the sky in the top layer. This will make the warm tones from the layer below appear wherever you paint. When using the eraser, create curved strokes rather than a straight cut. When you have finished this step, you can reduce the opacity of the current layer to make the color more subtle.

Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

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Step 3 – Add the model

Now let’s open picture of the model. Use the magic wand tool to create a selection of the model then click on the add layer mask button in the layers palette to create a mask of the model. Refine the mask by painting in the layer mask using a brush with a harder edge. When you’re done, position the woman in the centre of the image.

Photoshop Cs5 Tutorials For Beginners

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