Open the picture of the model and trace around her with the Pen tool (P). Leave the area around her hair, but be accurate when tracing the rest of the image. Once the path is closed, go to the Paths panel’s flyout menu and click on Load path as selection. Press Cmd + Shift + I to invert the selection.
Go to Selection > Modify > Feather and change to 2px. This will soften the edges and help to blend the picture with the background.
We’ll use a different technique to cut out the area around the hair. With the Quick Selection tool (W), choose the area around the hair. In the Options bar, click Refine Edge.
Check Smart Radius and increase the radius until the background starts to disappear. Play with the other settings to get a better understanding of the tool, then click OK when you’re happy with the result. Invert the selection and click on Add New Mask (at the bottom of the Layers panel) to hide the background. Use a soft round brush to add or remove areas of the hair and background as needed.
Create a new layer and change its blending mode to Overlay or Soft Light. Check Fill with Overlay-neutral colour (50% grey), and use the Dodge and Burn tools (O) to emphasise shadows and highlights. Then, reduce the Exposure (in the Options bar) to 15%, so you’ll have more control during the carving process.
Step: 5
Next, create a new RGB document, sized 40 x 29cm at 300dpi. Copy and paste the model and the carving layer into the canvas. Move both layers inside a folder and resize it to fit the document. Fill the background with a solid midtone colour (I went for R190 G151 B147) and check your model comps properly.
Change the background colour to a slightly darker tone (R175 G127 B123) as we’ll be using it to colour another layer, and use a large soft rounded brush to give the background some colour variation.
Copy and paste in a background image – I used a photo of a forest (shutr.bz/18teUDb) – and position and resize it as you like. Place it between the model shot and the coloured background in the layer stack, reduce the opacity to 40%, then change the blending mode to Soft Light.
Photoshop tutorial: Create beautiful lighting effects
Murilo Maciel shows how he produced this fashion illustration
Step: 7
Open the photo of the Aurora Borealis (a free image from sxc.hu/photo/1174630), select the Eraser tool (E) and – with a soft rounded brush – erase the edges to leave only the light visible. This will help it blend with the rest of the elements. HitCmd/Ctrl + U and change the Hue to 12 and Saturation to 30. Paste it below the model, and position it as we’ve highlighted above.
Photoshop tutorial: Create beautiful lighting effects
Murilo Maciel shows how he produced this fashion illustration
Step: 8
Create a new layer with a Pass Through blending mode. Select a soft round blue brush to paint the sky like we’ve done here. Add a layer mask to the layer and, with a Gradient tool (G), create a gradient so the sky fades out towards the bottom of the image.
Next, create a layer group behind the model and we can start adding some of decorative elements.
Open 3d_shapes.jpg from the project files (and/or create your own) and with the Pen tool – or the Magic Wand – cut the shapes you like the most and paste them into the layer group you just created. Use masks to help blend them with the rest of the images.
Step: 10
With the Polygonal Lasso tool (L), create a V-shaped selection as shown here. Select a soft round brush and set the size to 2,500px. Brush outside the selection so it looks like the light is fading out.
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