Photoshop Tips Tricks and Tutorials (Photoshoplogger): Grassy angel

Hi there! This tutorial will teach you how to make a grassy angel. Actually the name given to pic might not fit but I just gave the name. Hope this tutorial will be helpful for you. Here is the preview of final result:

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Before you start doing it, make sure that you import two stocks I have provided into Photoshop. Here you go:

Step 1:

Click and drag the grass layer from its document to another document. The grass layer will be named layer1 by default.

Step 2:

With layer1 selected, press Ctrl + T (you will get transformation option for the layer). Right click on the layer and then click on flip vertically. Position the grass as if it overlaps the lower portion of T-shirt of the girl. Also adjust the alignment of the grass as shown in the figure.

Step 3:
Now press enter to release the transformation layer. Now perform three task in this step.
1. Select Pen tool from tool box.
2. Use pen tool to select the portion of the grasses as directed in figure.
3. Select and complete a path as directed in the figure3.

Step 4:
Then right click anywhere inside the path and click on Make Selection option. You will see the result as shown in figure2 below:

Step 5:
Now next thing that we have to do is to select the grasses finely so that they wont look blur while deleting unwanted portion of grasses. For that we need to use Refine Edge option.
1. First click on Quick Selection Tool
2. Just above it, there is a refine edge option at right end, click on the refine edge option.
3. At right pane of the new window, increase the radius a bit as shown in figure.
4. Then click on the edges of the grasses to refine it and select the grasses clearly.
After you finish doing this, click on OK.

Step 6:

Previous step will result in selection of grasses in a refined way. Now press CTRL + I ( to inverse the selection) and then press delete. This will delete the unwanted portion of the grasses.

Step 7:

Now lower the opacity of layer1 to 45% so that you can see the t-shirt behind it. It will allow us to finely erase the portion of grasses that appear above the t-shirt.

First select Eraser tool from tool box.

Next select the type and size of brush from brush preset as shown in the figure.

Erase the portion of grass that are above the t-shirt but before doing this make sure you have selected layer1.

Step8:

We are almost to complete this tutorial. All that is left to erase the legs of girl and tag.

For this we can use Patch tool or Clone Stamp Tool. But I recommend to use Patch Tool as it makes you more easy for this tutorial. However I have used both Clone Stamp and Patch Tool to complete this task.

1. First hide the layer1.

2. Choose Clone Stamp Tool from tool box.

3. Choose a source point from where to clone (make sure to select the background layer). For this press ALT key and click on the point that you want to be source. I have mentioned the source point that I took in this tutorial. ( It is better if you take the source point from near by area).

4. After you choose the source point, just click and drag on the shadows to replace with source area. Similarly remove foot portions too.

Step 9:

Now in this step we are using patch tool to remove the desired portions.

1. First select the patch tool.

2. Select legs of the girl and replace with another nearby portion (just click the selected portion and drag it to another portion with which you want to replace)

3. Similarly remove the tag from photo.