I’ve been amazed by the special effects created in Photoshop for a long time, and this time I would like to make one by myself. Steps are as follows:
image 1: boy and groundlayer mask to select the part of the boy and ground that I want. and clone stamp to create the ground and ground edge.
shadow/Highlight was used to correct the brightness of the image. use the sun image as the color match source file, to apply it to boy and ground.
image 2: seafree transform to stretch the pic and get rid of the sun. save it as the displace map. render light to the sea. and do displace of the sun shine. reflection of the clouds on the left side of the sea surface, filter used is motion blur and blend mode is softlight with opacity 20%.
image 3: sky and orange cloudsclone stamp to create part of the sky and get rid of the mountain. Free transform, perspective and scale to have more depth and to get rid of the mountain and composite with the sea.
image 4: crystal balltechniques used: inner shadow, inner glow, linear gradient, sphere distort, hard brush, soft brush, square to polar distort.
image 5: suntechniques used are as follows:filters: render clouds, render difference clouds, find edge;
image adjustments: levels, hue & saturation;
blend mode linear dodge.
FINAL IMAGE - the enlightened universe:
Gestalt is well accomplished in here. I separate the image into 5 objects: the sky with orange clouds, the surface of the sea, the boy and the ground, the fake sun and a fake crystal ball. The first 3 are from photos, the last two are made up by myself with Photoshop techniques and tools. Now, all the objects look like in one environment. I was trying to make the image match the color of the fake sun, since it is the shiniest part of the image. Therefore, the tone of the image will be yellowish orange. The theme of the image will be mystery. Sun is abnormally huge, the boy is standing in front of the sun on a high and steep ground, holding a crystal ball, just like a little witch.
There are quite some challenges I met in this project, like the colors of the original 3 images don’t go along with each other, the surface of the sea need to have reflection of the sun shine, etc. Therefore, in this project I would say this biggest effort I made is to integrate the objects to make it look like in one environment, which required the techniques in image adjustment and level adjustment.
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The sun in the back of the boy is stunningly amazing. What a great work you’ve done to combine those pictures and the created elements all together to come up with such real image! You are so talented!