Photoshop Tips Tricks and Tutorials (Photoshoplogger): Freedom - need of all

This tutorial will teach you how to take control over the light and mood of a manipulation and how to create a night environment in Photoshop using adjustment layers.

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Preview of the final result:

freedom - photo manipulation tutorial by Binod Gurung

Before you proceed, first download the stocks that I have provided in the link above or click on download stocks. The downloaded stocks then need to be imported into Photoshop.

We will be working on the document with the image below.

Step1:

Lets start making adjustment to the background layer. Right click on the Adjustment below and choose Exposure.

Exposure --> 1.36

Offset --> -0.0078

Gamma Correction --> 0.12

you get to see the following output:

Step2:

Now import the earth image into the working document. Press Ctrl + T to get transformation and then adjust the size and alignment of the layer as shown in the figure below.

Step3:

Change the blend mode of the earth layer into screen. There you will see line edges as shown by the green highlighted portion in the figure below, that needs to be removed. We use eraser tool to remove those portions.

Click on Eraser Tool --> choose eraser type (soft eraser brush) --> Size 494px

Also, set opacity = 63% and flow=42%

you see the following output

Step4:

Now the person jumping on the air needs to be imported into the working document. First select the person using Quick Selection or Pen Tool. Then, click and drag the image into the working document as shown below.

Step5:

Now, some adjustment is done to the person layer. With the person layer selected, click on the adjustment below and then select Black and White.

Set adjustment for all fields to maximum i.e -200.

The adjustment layer needs to clipped to only person layer. So right click on the black and white adjustment layer and choose clipping mask. You can see result immediately.

Similarly apply adjustment with Curve and Brightness & Contrast as show in figure.

Your layers palette should look like as

Step6:

Now apply a bit of blur effect to the person. Get the person layer selected and then follow the steps - Go to Filter --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur .

A Gaussian Blur box will appear, adjust the blur to 3.6px.