Learn Magical Effects in Adobe Photoshop For Beginners

1. Introduction: Everyone, my name is Anya. I'm a digital artist and I enjoyed teaching people all the Photoshop skills I learned. So in this class, we will be learning how to create this image. So for the starting image, we are going to use this image of this boy here. You can also use your own image if you want. That doesn't matter. But we are using this one and we are going to transform it into this. So basically you will learn how to use brushes here, how to create this kind of light effect. How to make it mysterious, and how to make your image look more soft and then the original one. So what we are doing here is we're going to create this glowing book. We're going to play with the exposure. We're going to change the background colors. We're going to do brightness and contrast highlights, correct thing, special effects, creating glow and a lot more stuff. So this class is good for beginners because everything is really slow explained. So if you are totally new to Photoshop, this is fine because I explained everything really slow so everyone can understand anything. So the only thing you need is Photoshop and all the other stuff. The images is in this project. So I hope to see you in this class. It's going to be a lot of fun. 2. How To Use Select Subject: Welcome back to another awesome video. So in this video we are going to create something magical. So let's start off from the beginning by open up Photoshop. And now I'm just going to drag the image of the boy JPEG into this file. Now, first of all, we need to get rid of this original background to work with this image. So for these background, It's quite easy because we have like a one-color background areas and there is enough contrast between the background and the boy itself here. So for this, what I want to do is go to Select subject. And this way for a shop is automatically going to select the image from the background. So you can see here, it already made a selection quite easy. So we don't have to spend much time on using bento or whatever automated you are using. Now, let me zoom in here and see if this is all correct. You can see here we need to fix this a bit here, and also on this side. So this is something we do need to do, but for the other parts it looks quite good here also maybe some brushing. And let's see. There's a quite a good job also here maybe. So once you have this, we only have to make mask by pressing mask here. Now, we have a mask of our selection. I'm going to put a bare ground here so I can see this better. So I'm going to click on this one and select solid color. And with solid color, I could just fill the whole area with one color in a separate layer. Now, let's pick something great. Something like this. It doesn't really matter. Drag it underneath the layer one. And now we have this behind them. Now I want to see this better. So I'm going to double-click on a gray and maybe try out a bit lighter color so I can see the H better. Something like this. This is almost white. Press Okay. Now, for this part, I need to bring this part back. So I'm going to take the brush here, select the brush tool. Or you can press B on your keyboard and just take the general So from Bosch. Now, make sure to list, let's get the hardness up to a 100. The opacity and flow also here. And pick white as the foreground color. Now, make sure to click on the mass of the boy here, not the ball itself, but the mask. And let's make the brush smaller n. So why not like yes, and bring these parts back where he made the mistakes in the selection. This also is a bit weird, but I do think that with matter. Let's see probably here, bring it back here. And there. And see here also probably too much. Let's look at the whole part. So what I'm doing now is I'm brushing the original background back so I can fix these parts for the Pinto. So once you have the go down here and select the Pen Tool, make sure you have path selected here and not shape. And let's start with fixing these parts now, want to make sure that big on spec and let's zoom in here. I'm going to use the pen tool here to make the selection a bit better than the original one. So simply like this. And it's already improved the cut if we had before. Now, once you have the selection, just go around with and close it. Press right mouse. Make selection, leads the fitter at once. So a little bit of a soft edge. Now, once you have that, just press Control or Command backspace, Rowen, Control Z, press right. Let's select this one, the rectangular to right mouse select inverse. So we select them the other area and the outer area. And now if I press Command backspace accurate, move it, and that's it. And this is what I have to do with the other parts also. So again, use the pen tool to the selection is a bit better than the original one. Just like that empty clip quickly do this because we don't have much to do. You could also just use the Pen Tool to cut this image out if you want to do, it's really precisely, but I don't think it's necessary for this one because after after sometime they're going to be a lot of designs in this. So you probably won't even see these little things here. If they will be Facebook and I was brushed later on. All right, So once we get to, Let's also do this part here. It's got this little part here. And she's going to do this quickly. This is always the boring part of everything that removing the backgrounds. But it's so important that we always have to do this. Cannot pick up this one again. Once makerspace get rid of death. Can see this is probably the side of his body, so we're going to leave that one. All right. I'm going to make the background here a bit darker so I can see is hair better? Let's make it all black. Press. Okay. And to fix the hair here, we can do a little trick from forest rope itself. So we're going to click on the mask layer and press right mouse, select a mask. And with the select and mask, with this one, you can make the hair bit better than the original cut-out. So these settings, I will just leave them as the original one. Usually they are fine. And I just gonna do this. You can see here already improve the hair selection and you get rid of that leg that we don't need. And also here and here. And with this, you could also do like precise selections with people's hair or even from animals if they have like first taking out, do the same with the firm. Once you have the selection, just make it a bit better with this one. And you can see here, you've got a really good gotten out of the hair. We even have this hair sticking out here. All right, so this is probably a press. Okay, we have our selection and this looks quite good. So let's make a smart objective by pressing a right mouse on it. Convert smart object. 3. Burning Image: Okay, right now we can start with creating a new file. So let's go to File New or press Control or Command N to create a new file. Now the size I will be using here is 21 6700. You can use a biggest size if you want to, for instance, use it for print. You can use for 1000 by 5000 pixels. The other stuff don't need to change it, and let's create it. Now. First of all, I'm going back in this one and I'm making sure this is a smart object. I can see that there. And now what I want to do is I want to import this in the other one. So I'm just going to simply drag it in the other file. Place it somewhere here. And if we press Control T or Command T to bring up the free transform, hold down Alt to scrolling my mouse to zoom out a bit. And let's make this smaller. Now, I want to still want to have him in the center here somewhere. So I'm going to place them somewhere here. Like that. Alright, so zooming in, you can see here is, here is a bit messy from the cut we curated. But I wouldn't worry about it because this will probably be pretty dark background so you won't even notice it. And if you do notice it, we can always fix that later on. So don't worry about this stuff in it here. So let's first of all make the background black by clicking on the background here, I'm pressing Control I to invert it or Command I. So this better because I can now focus better on this boy. All right, so first of all, I would like to do some brushing on this boy to give him a bit of a soft effects out. It's a bit more software equals some pressure. So let's first start with creating a new layer, pressing this. And go to edit out. Make sure to press on the layer itself. Go to Edit and select Fill. And here we can fill the area with something. Now, we use 50 percent gray to use the Dodge and Burn tool. And that is exactly what I wanted to. So I'm going to select 50 percent gray press. Okay. Now I want to make sure it's only filling the area of the boys. I'm pressing right mouse, create a clipping mask. And that way we only working inside the layer of the boy, as you can see with this arrow. Now, let's change the blend mode here from normal to overlay. We won't see it. We only see in what we're doing with the tools here. Now, for this one, I'm going to select the Burn tool. And the burn tool you can find here. We making areas that are first of all, I want to make the shadows of him darker. So I'm going to select the Burn tool and go down, go up here. And first two highlights and bring this a bit up. He's pretty light in this photo, so I don't want to do too much, just a little bit of brushing. And you can see here, if I do these dark areas, uh, giving them a bit more shadow, we have like a pretty dark image when we are finished with this creation. So I wanna make sure that areas are a bit darker than now. Pretty light now, this photo is I think it is in a photo studio maybe, and it has a lot of light, so we need to make sure we have some darker tones here. So let's first do especially the stuff behind him. So like when you go to the back side of his head of his clouding, those places need to be a bit darker. So let's first do also here, Let's also these here, here. And you can see here like for instance, this clotting is goes like this, and I'm always trying to brush this darker areas. Same goes for this area here. Here. Here. All these little things here that are shadows. You might wandering by Buddha braces. I can barely see it well, at the end, when you are finished with everything and you have brushed all these sponsor bit darker, you, you're gonna get some really cool effects to make this more magical. So first of all, let's make sure to brush all these spots. Now, if I compare this before and after, because here we get a bit more shadows. Now what I'm going to do now is I'm going to switch the midtones. And I'm basically going to do the same. But the only thing that changes is the exposure we're going to jump to, let's say 25 or 30. 25 maybe. Let's try it out. Let's do 30, can barely see it. And I'll do it on 30. And I'm going to do it again. And now you can see it a bit better because we're doing the maintenance now there's a lot more mid-tones here. So Eve, especially these parts here, let's do this again. You can also make the brush a bit bigger and a little bit there. Especially these here on this side here. Don't do it too much, just a bit darker like I'm doing now. Because if you're doing too much, you can see here, if it's too much, it's just gonna get rid. I don't want to see that with coming. So if you see a skin gets red, it's already too much. Just go back with control C and D with a bit less. So try to avoid that threat. Now let's compare the before and after you get C here we get some nice darker tones. Now, let's do shadows for now. And again, let's chuck this exposure. And this time I'm going to make the brush pretty big because I don't want to push too much. Just wanted an extra bit of shadow layers. Shadow brushing. Especially these parts here where it goes to the beginning, you see we get this really cool effect now. Like there might be an a here with his hands. And these parts, you can barely see it because it's all highlights here. Now, I think this is enough and you can already see this effect that we created. So the image got a bit softer. We can always jump the opacity here in case it feels too much. But for now, I'm going to leave it at, let's say 90 to keep it a lot, but not at a 100. 4. Glowing Book: At this point, I would like to work on the book itself. The book is going to get some magical page in it, which contains lighting and some fantasy stuff going on. So that's why E is obviously surprised. Now, I want to do this effect now so I can have an idea of what I'm actually working on. So let's start off with creating this light effect. Now, first of all, you can see this book as text. And if we have some light effects here, you're not going to see that text because it's really light. So let's get rid of that text first by creating a new layer and pressing right mouse and creating a clipping mask. So we're working inside this coil. And again, I'm going to fill this with 50 percent gray like we did with the other one. Press Okay, change the blend mode to overlay here. And that's it. Now. And instead of the burn tool, now I'm going to use the Dodge tool because what it does show, if you remember this, we are making a real slider instead of darker. Now, let's try up midtones and C. And this already makes the page white. Now let's just brush it like this. Maybe we can even increase the exposure here. So it's even more. Just like that. We simply brushing all the pages white. Now, it doesn't matter if you go over the edge here because this is actually a light source that we are creating now. So you probably going to see some lighter pages on the other pages also. So let's just brush it like that and that is gone. Alright, so let's now create the life itself. So for the light itself, I'm going to create a new layer on top of this. And what I'm going to do now is I want to make a selection of the book. So I'm going to select the Pen tool, which is here. Now, make sure you have path selected here and not shape. And let's start with taking the page of this book. So only this page, I want to make a selection of this page. So I'm going to go around the edge. To make a selection of this page. It doesn't have to be perfect. But let's try to do a little bit of perfect. Now, if you remember this, I will use the pen tool from the other modules. It's pretty easy when you use it a lot, you get used to it like that. Now, this doesn't mean that now, if we press right mouse and make a selection, we are going to create a selection. But it's made a selection from the other sites or not the page, but all the other stuff. So I'm going to select the marquee tool here, Rectangular Marquee Tool. Press right mouse and select inverse. And now make sure your background is set to white and press Control Backspace to delete it. And now we have this white stuff. She can see here if I move this, we have this thing created. Now. I just want to blur this out first. So let's go to filter blur, gaussian blur, and Gaussian blur. We can blow stuff up. I can already see we are getting some cool light effects from this. Now. I just want to have this a little bit around the edge. So I'm going to leave it like this. Now, for the next one, I would like to create a new layer. And I'm going to select the brush this time. Make sure to have white selected as a color, not black. And if we go to the Settings Share, make sure it's the general brush soft round. Hardness should be at 0 and the opacity and flow at a 100. And if I make this bigger with these two key keys next to the letter P on your keyboard, it is between the P and the Enter. And if I make this dot here, then take them move to, I'm going to put it here. And now I want to make some sort of a light beam. So we're going to press Command T or Control T to bring up the free transform. And if I hold down control, I can stretch it out like that. So I'm going to zoom out here with holding down Alt and scholar mouse and take the other canal, so maybe rotate it a bit. And this is fine. Now, we can always change this later. I just want to have a basic idea. You can move it around. Now. The glow, it shouldn't come to the bottom because the book is facing upwards. So we need to get rid of some of the glow. It's a bit too much now. So what I'm going to do is instead of brushing it away, maybe I wanted to bring back the glow later on for some reason. I don't know. So I want to make a mask of this glow. So let's go here and make a mask by pressing this one. And now if I take a black brush, I can brush some stuff away. So let's make it smaller so I can precisely, so the bottom part here, I will brush away like that. So leave it at the original. We have to brush it here also. And here. So only one to go this go blow up like that. And that's already better, so we don't have anything glowing on the bottom side. Alright, now we can try to maybe rotate it the better you can move this. I'm layer around. So if you move this around, it's also going to take the mask. But we only want to move the party that's in the mask. So you have this thing here, this icon, this means it's locked with the mask. If I press on this, it's going to remove it and I can move this inside the mask so it doesn't move the whole thing, just the layer inside it. So this really good to use sometimes. So I'm going to move this a bit around. So Baby bit to the right, maybe rotate it a bit like that. The third got something nice thing. This is nice and I was shy to lock it back in, so I don't forget it later on. Now, let's brush a bit more here. Maybe make this light go it there. Just like that. Doesn't have to be too much, but we are getting some nice light effects now. And we can jump the opacity. Maybe, maybe it's too much. All right, so this is our face light effects. We will improve it later on, but we have our first thing, let me brushes bit better here. We have our first light effect, and later on, I will improve this. 5. Exposure: All right, Let's start with making some more shadows on this boy. If you haven't saved your work yet, don't forget to save it as a Photoshop file in case something happens. Now, let's start off with creating a new layer on top of these. And the layer I want to use now is exposure, which you can find here. So great. These on top of these layers. Now, don't forget the press this again. So we only affecting the board. Now, let's take the exposure and bring it to the left so we can make the boy bit darker first. So we still want to have like natural shadow. So if it's going to get too dark, it's not gonna look natural. So I'm going to do this slightly, maybe to something like this. Let's do it like this first. Now, obviously we have this book now that is really light. So we need to make sure that we are getting some light on this boy from this book. So let's click on the mask here from this layer and then select the black brush. Don't need this for now. And make sure it's the soft round pressure again, the opacity flow at the a 100 and the hardness at 0. Like always. I think you're getting used to it now. Let's start with bulging areas lighter. So the book is here, the light is going up. So these areas will be lighter. So let's just gently start brushing here. Like his hand is going over. So this part will be light and this part underneath it, it will be darker. So let's make the brush smaller year, maybe not so small. Brush bit there, just like there. Maybe a bit less. And let's also brush here. Year. This is just the basic idea to get the lighting. Some basically just the front side of him get slider. And the backside there will be a bit darker. Now, let's see, probably hear some light, maybe bit darker behind this. And some lighter here. Is phase will always also be a light. We don't want to make its face dark because obviously we want the C S phase, for instance, these areas behind them is air that we can leave the UK. Now, let's brushes phase slider. I did, and the stuff that's in the background leave it a bit darker. Now let's see here we have his hand That's gonna make the brush smaller. I'm going to choose bullshit like that. Try to make some movement so it's not like one thing the same as the edge, but like a little bit of movements like that. Okay, I think this is enough. Maybe hear a bit more. Let's see. You can always enable the same list to see which areas you forgot the brush. Let's leave this light or else it gets too dark. Let's see something like this. This would be probably bit darker here. So maybe we need to try to have one side of his face a bit darker so we have some more shadows. But this is a bit too much. I need to reverse this like that. Just a bit in a background thing this already looks pretty good effect compared is before and after. We already have some nice shadows in the background. Maybe this part is also darker. Let's push this birth bit darker like that. So try to bridge these parts and switch from white to black to either remove it or bring it back till you got something nice. It doesn't have to be perfect because this is still for the shop. So obviously it's not real. But if you have some nice shadows going on, DOT image cannot be interesting to look at. Maybe some bit of movements from his hand here. Just like that. All right. I think this is an enough may be a bit lighter here because his fingers up getting light air, they're there. I think this is fine now. I can always change this later on in there for a month. So if I'm opening up this window, I can even make it darker if I wanted to. Maybe a bit darker. And let's see, not too dark. I think this is good. I'm going to leave it like this for now. 6. Background And Colors: Okay, right now, I want to add a background into this image so I can see a bit better. But the final result will be usually I do backgrounds at the end, so I can always switch him. But for this one, I would like to do it now because I feel like we are missing some big round here to actually doing some changes to the boy itself. So let's start with adding the background. So simply click on the background here and drag the background image into this file. Now it's just going to place it behind them. Now while holding Alt, I'm going to take one corner here and tried to find a nice spot. Our one, this image. So maybe he's standing here and he's in some sort of base month. So try out some different composites, maybe you can also make it, we'll bake and only use this part for instance. But I would like to see a bit, I would like to see a bit of depth in this image. So I'm going to try to see some stuff in the background here. So let's make it a bit smaller. We still need to make sure it looks realistic. So if the photos like this, it looks a bit weird. So I'm gonna make sure I don't see the flow here, so it doesn't look weird. Now, let's move this way. They're going to make it even smaller. Maybe some light from the floor there. Let's see something like this. I think this is fine. Now, once you have the background as you 12, or maybe you have your own background, doesn't really matter. I'm using this one. Press Enter and it's placed. Now, we need to make sure the colors are blending well to get it in this form because he's obviously way too light for this. Now, first of all, let's make sure the colors are a bit the same. Now the best way to blend things together is to just get rid of most of the colors and later on just color lighter image. Now, let's make sure we get rid of some of the colors from this boy because he is also a dark scene. So at the arcsine, she won't see that much color. Now, first of all, let's make sure we are here on top of this oil layer and click on this one and select Hue in situation. And with you in situation, we can drop the situation. Now, wanna make sure we only affect the boy for now. Let's press this. So don't forget that and drop the situation here so we can make them a bit more to black and white. Something like this. Also here is clouding here. Maybe we can change the color. So if you want to change one color in this image, for instance, this pink shirt here as on, I want to change pink. I'm going to press this one here, and it's going to sample the color I click. So if I, for instance, want to change the score, I will press this. And I would then click on summer where it's visible, discolored like there. And you can see here it picks red. So this is read what is big, but it's also the color of his skin, so I wouldn't mess with it too much, but you could just jump in a little bit like that. All right, let's move on to the color of the background. So I'm going to click on the background now. And I'm going to add some US situation also to the background. Now, also press this and don't forget that. And let's drop some color from the background so we have a bit more black or white thing. You can also play around with these, maybe on a bit more greenish. Let's try out this, how this looks. Maybe a bit more to the right like that. Alright, so this is the first step of the colors. 7. Brightness And Contrast: If you look at this image, it feels like he's way too light, still too light for days. So what we have to do here is we have to change the brightness and the contrast of this boy first. So we can simply do that by clicking on these adjustment layers we have from this boy, so going up all the way to the top, but the last one here, you can see that as the arrow. Let's add a brightness and contrast. And with the brightness and contrast, we can simply adjust the brightness and contrast of this point. Now, don't forget the press this again. I wonder why for a ship doesn't have an automatic thing, that this thing is always crest because I always use that. So don't forget this thing. Now, let's do brightness first. Let's drop the brightness because he's way too bright. And you can already see when we dropping this brightness, he blends lot better in this kind of environment that PDF now because we have a pretty dark room. So let's run this. Now. I want to have a bit more contrast because I see the black tones there are a bit darker than here. So I'm going to increase this one. You can crank it all the way up if you want to. And you can see it gets real punchy now, but I tried to leave that final adjustments for the end, so I'm still going to leave it somewhere there. So not too much. And now I need to play around with these to find a nice area where I want this. Let's see, I think something like this is fine. Now press X to close it and we are finished with this one. 8. Highlights: Okay, So at this point we have, is a whole body face darker, but I still want to have some highlights because we have this really glowy book. I wanted to create a bit of a highlights everywhere. So for this, I'm going to go here again and create a new layer. Now, this layer will be a 50 percent gray layer again. So I'm gonna go to Edit, Fill and again select 50 percent gray press. Okay, and don't forget to create a clipping mask. Now, change the blend mode to overlay again. And for this, we are going to use the Dodge tool. So for the mantle, we did the dark areas for industrial, we are going to do area slider. So Let's start off with the dodge tool. The lighter areas, select midtones here. Summer range 41 IS 41 at this would be finite thing. Let's try it out so you can see this cloud is sticking out. So I'm going to brush, this part is sticking out a bit smaller brush here like that. And you can see here I'm rushing like some sort of a rim light. Maybe not so much, just a bit. Now, let's also do this one there and there, and deer. And this will create some nice effect at the end when we are doing final adjustments. So we're getting all these highlights then at the end. Now, maybe a bit less exposure here, so it doesn't get too wide just a bit. Also, there may be, there are these kind of things that are sticking out. Now, for instance, here we get brush it. Also brush this one. Just the edge of this clause here. He has maybe been there, maybe this button here bit. And with brushing like little parts, we're getting some nice highlights. Lights wrong. Maybe also is hand EBIT year. Let's see how it looks. Also these clothing here. I said this before at the beginning that when we are bursting, first the dark areas, it will look better at the end. Well, we don't, we don't forget the lighter areas. We also have to brush. So that's like two things. You have to bridge the dark areas with the Burn tool and the lighter areas with the dodge tool. So just a bit like that, it doesn't have to be much. Now if I compare this before and after, you can see here, we get some cool highlighted areas. Now, you can really go crazy and do it on a lot of places you can also do is face. But it's going to look less natural if you do it way too much. So you have to find a better is if you want to have a real like photoshopped image, you can also do is ice here, white. I'm not going to do it, but they're just showing quickly. Or for instance here, but here I would definitely drop the exposure so it doesn't get too, too light. So maybe bit here. Not too much. Or else we are rolling This boy is phase. Let's see, Maybe bit there. You have to do it a bit more precisely. They are not going to do it. There are also I'm going to ruin his face, so I'm going to leave it away here. Maybe only it's shinier bit. So if you want to be precisely, go ahead, try it out, see what it should look like on skin. Tried to do it like slightly on the edge. So I'm not too much. Let's see the Dutch though. I think this is even enough what I have now. Maybe a bit more here. Let's see, maybe a bit there and some maybe there. All right, now you can see this really good clothing where you brushed it. So before after we get some nice highlights, every bit of his face here. All right. I'm going to leave it like this. I think this is fine for now. Later on, we will see the difference when we are doing final adjustments. 9. Correcting And Organizing: Before we continue with the next, the next chapter, I'm going to do some corrections. It's always good to do some corrections while you work on something. Because at the end you're going to get so much layers, it's going to be difficult to try and find every little thing. So at this point, we still have organized layers here. We can still see everything. So it's good to do some corrections. Now, the corrections I would like to do here is to check this book first, this glow here, and that's so satisfied with it. It looks a bit too soft for me. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to disable this blows for now just this year. So I can see it. And you can see here this is the Exposure laid at we pressed, so we have to press this light again. So I'm going to click on this one, the mask, and I'm going to make sure that this is white because this is obviously our light source, so this has to be light. So let me do this a bit more precise here. So we don't see some weird stuff going on. So just like that, Maybe a bit also the other pages. So bit lighter. This will be better at the end. Now if I enable this again, Let's see, this was the first glow. I'm going to play with the opacity here. Let's increase the opacity. I think I like this color. It looks really, really punchy here. And this one, Let's see, in this one is a bit too much, I think so this one, I would probably drop a bit, something like this and you can already see it looks a bit better. Now, I guess you some glow going on at the bottom. So I don't know if you have this in your version, but when they say, well nevertheless, I'm just checking if I see everything right. So maybe get rid of the glow here to need it in his face. Because his face is already light. Now, this already is better. So these are little things that I'd like to do where our post stuff. Let's see if it might be bit like that. If I correct this stuff now, later on it will be easier to have a better at this time because obviously we are gonna get a lot more layers. So let's also put these in folders. This is the boy. So I'm gonna hold down, shift and select all these layers, and then press Control G or Command G to put it in a group. And this will be the boy. And let's do this one also, Comanche. This is our background. So you have a bit of organized file now. 10. Special Effects: Let's create some special effects. Now. For special effects who we could add some mist coming out of this book. For instance, for missed, I have brush called SS missed precious. And I cannot link this in this project because those are not my brushes, but I will link the URL where you can download them. So this is on Deviant Art. It's from someone else, from another author. And he has this honest Deviant Art and you can download it for free. So just check the link in the description where you can download this. So once you download this file, just simply unzip it and then go into Photoshop and import brushes here. To import these brushes, you could also use Google to search for free missed brushes, for instance, that also works. But I think this marshes S is Ms. Bursts are really good Miss brushes. That's why I use them always. Now, let's first go to the SS MS brushes. And you can see you have a lot of brushes here. And we can simply just pick someone. Some of these. Now, they meant to press that. Let's create a new layer on top of all these layers, and this will be the midst. So let me see how this looks. So if you click on mist brush and you move your mouse to the right, you can see how they look. So I wanted to make sure it's some nice miss versa, maybe this one. Here we can set the color for the brush. So if I click on the color, I want to have a bit. Let's do it a bit. Like really yellow, wish, Quiet, almost the white, something like this. Once you have the color press Okay, and you can just click anywhere in here for missed. Now, be aware bit if you are pressing here and you have missed what you want to move it. If you're going to take the Move tool and you're going to move it. You can see this edge here. It's not so nice. So make sure to, if you want to place and move it, maybe get the big, a bit smaller like that. And if you press Control or Command T, you can see here it doesn't go to the edge, so this is fine. I can now move it and even make it bigger or smaller. So let's play some myths around this book like that. And it even looks like this. Mrs. go on around them. Now, let's create a new layer and let's try another one. Let's see what we have here. So there are a lot of these verses here, just trying to see which one a month. Maybe something different. Let's see. This one is too strange now. Probably this one was pretty good that a head the first time. Maybe this one. Let's make it smaller. Now. This is fine. And now I can just place it where I wanted to. Don't do it too much through it a bit. Like reasonable. Because if you're going to do it too much, it's going to be to miss the night you don't want to miss. You can see already this is a bit too much. I'm going to remove that one. If you take both of these and press Control G to put it in a folder. And now we have a folder for mistake. Let's call this mist. So play around with this. Now, the next effect that we could do is to, let's create a new layer. And I want to create some sort of sparkles. But for this, I could just use a general brush and make it really small. Let's take white as a color. I'm going to make the brush really is one. Let's zoom in here a bit. And I'm going to place these dots. If you make them small like this, make the smaller, bigger, smaller, bigger. And just play some thoughts around the guy can barely see it in his clothing. So I'm going to play some here. Here. Don't make them too big because they're going to look not real. So place some dots there, there, there. Once you have some of these, you can simply just press Control or Command J to duplicate this one and just rotate it so you don't see a pattern somewhere. And now we have even more. You can duplicate it one more time if you want to. And other time are many times you want actually. So if you want to have a lot of these, the sparkles gone or you can just duplicate this. I'm going to move them a bit to the center so they don't go death much out of this book on and make sure they are looking like they're coming out of this book and not from the side somewhere. So make sure they are looking like the gone up. Maybe these here with the blue write like that. Just some simple extra effect. 11. Changing Colors And Particles: Okay, Now if we look at this image, it feels like it's a bit bluish. So I wanted to make it a bit more red, bit warm. So the easiest way to do this is to go down here and select Color Balance. And with the color balance, we can change the colors of this image. Now, here we have the red Tennessean. If we just move the slider to the right, you can see how this changes to red. So before, after that got a lot more warm. I feel like this is a lot better than the bluish. Now, let's add some particles to this. I have this image particles. We can just simply drag it here and put it there. Now the only thing to do here is to change the blend mode here from normal to screen. And it already is transparent because it was all black. Now we need to make sure it's black and not the dark blue. So I'm going to add a levels here. Levels. Don't forget to press this. And I'm going to take the black one here and define where is the egg. So this should be black and blue. And I'm going to click there and it instantly removes it. So that's really easy to make something real black and not like dark blue. Now, these particles are also bluish. I want to have them like not blue but just white. So I'm going to add a huge situation to them and simply take the situation and bring it down. And you can see they are instantly not black anymore and just more like yellowish, whitish. Okay, we can see here, there is still a bit feasible from background. So the easiest way to fix it. Little thing is to just make a mask. And then they can black brush and just make sure you have the hardness at 0 and just brush this away. So sometimes there's still a little bit of areas left that are not really black because we have this glow gone on. So easiest way to fix it, It's like this. Now, let's try to put these particles not in his face, but somewhere. I'm first going to put this in one folder. So I'm pressing Command G to put these in a folder and this is our particles. So we have a pretty organized for now, so that's good. So if I want to add some other stuff to this, I can easily just edit and I can see everything I have here. So let's first put them somewhere there. Maybe press Control T to bring up the free transform and take the corner and rotate it. Let's put it to the pages. So to say maybe something like this. This is how you want to show here. You can do some creative stuff if you want to. But I think I like this. I think this is fine. 12. Chang Glow Color: Can make this glow bit more magical by adding some color to it. Right now we have a white kind of glow going on here. We can make it more orangey like. So let's make a new layer on top of everything. Let's also put the particles on the color balance, so they are also in there, that one. So let's make a new layer for the color. We need to pick something, something really colorful, bright. So I was thinking about bit orange because we have now a warm image. So orange would fit good for this one, maybe something like this. You can copy these settings if you want to press. Okay, and let's take a breadth-first. Now, let's make sure the hardness is all the way at 0. The software on general brush and the opacity, a flow at a 100. First I wanted to make I dot. I'm going to make a dot in the center of this image. Let's see somewhere here. Just make sure if you press Control D that the edges are inside this image and not over the edge. Because if you remember this, when you go over the edge, it is you're going to get this heart a hard edge. So I'm not like this, but someone is centered. It's incentives image. So you can just make a dot first like this. And let's place it here. So here will be the globe. And if I change this to overlay, you can immediately see we get this orange color. Now. We can press Control T and hold on Alt and make it bigger. We can make this really big if you want it. So if you want like a really cool kind of orangey glow, you can make this rubric if you want to like this. Maybe you wanted to like this. This looks pretty cool. But maybe it's too much you are thinking, Oh, he got, so orange maybe should be less. You can change the opacity here. So this is really something dead. How you want your image to create. If you want real fantasy kind of image, you can go crazy here. And you can also press Control T and maybe stretch it out like that. So it's phase also gets orange if you want some really orangey stuff. But I think I like to have a bit of a bell and so I'm not going to go for a 100 percent. I'm going to go for let's see, maybe somewhere around 60, something like this. Also tried to change the background from from light to dark to see how it looks on your, on your eyes when you have a darker and lighter background. So usually I switch around these. Sometimes I checked black. I think this looks pretty nice. 13. Background Editing: All right. If you remember, before I said, I like to have the bare ground at the end of the creation. Now, this is a perfect time to start experimenting with different backgrounds. So I have found another background, and I want to try this one out. So this is big round number two. I'm just going to go here and I'm going to disable this background for now to see how this image will look with different backgrounds. So the best way to do this is to try out different backgrounds. You will see immediately death. Sometimes image can improve a lot with just simply changing a paragraph. Now, I have this background now and I want to input a, so I'm going to input is here and hold it now, I'll make this bigger. And I think this is a lot more depth then the other one does look so super interesting. And I think this is a lot better than the other one. Now, the only thing I don't want to see here is that room, that window in the background. Because if we have that winner there, we will need to create some lighting on him, but we made him dark in the background. So I'm going to make this a bit like death. I'm holding down Alt and Shift and stretching these to make this room are paid more flat. So if I can stretch it out, you probably won't even see that there's a row, there's a window there. Because we also kinda make this a bit darker. So I'm going to do it like this. Now, the next thing to do is to make this a bit darker. This is way too light. He is, he has to be, has to have some darker back. Wow, so let's add some curves to this. Curves, make sure to press this. And let's disrupt these highlights. And that's also the midtones. So we have some darker shadows even more. And now I can just play around with this. And let's see, maybe something like this. So try to play around with the curves. If you make like this little curve until you've got something that looks really nice. Maybe, something like this. If you bring up deeds, he can bring up the highlights. So I'm trying to find something nice. Let's change this to another color to try out how they seize. Maybe something like this. Not too dark because we still want to see what's going on there. But I just want to make sure that it's barely visible, that there is a window. I don't want to see a window there. And the next thing to do here is to blur this background that bit out. So we have more focus on the boy, I think this is nice. Now if we want to blur that out, we simply using blurred, if you can find here with blurs. Now if you want to use Lens Blur, we have to rasterize this layer. But I don't want to lose the original layer in case I later want to go back and change something. So what I'm going to hold down Shift, let's say these words and pressing Command or Control J to duplicate these. Now let's take these two. Hold Shift and press Command G or Control G to group. And let's call this backup BG Becker background. So I guess I want to change later on month ago bag economics go back. So now we can rasterize this layer by pressing right powers or SSRIs. And if we apply a blur, we can now apply less blood. So we have to find a range debt. Looks nice for this. Let's see. I'm just going to make this a bit smaller and compare this with this image. So once I have these, we probably don't need. We only want to play with the radius here. The other staff, I barely changed I0 sleeve with it 0. So let's try out this radius to see how much blue we want. We can also just take a blurred press. Okay? If we like it, it's fine if you don't like it. We press Control Z to go back and do it again. Actually, I don't want the blurred out a lot because I like the details in the background. So maybe just the layer a bit, not much like that. Now I'm going to press Control Z again. To go back. Maybe even less, maybe too. This is just like a little blur in the background. It's not much. You're going to press Control Z again. Let me put this to gray. And let's see. I just have to try out different blurs to define how much blur I want. This looks also nice. All right, so this is something you could decide for yourself how much beer you want. I think something I guess maybe a bit less so Blur. We're going to do it again. Oh, wrong one. Blurred lens blur. So this was 2004, maybe something like 14. Something like this. I think we're going to leave it like this. Now. I want to make it a bit darker, so I'm going to add another curves so the background, because I feel like it's a bit too light, so still make it a bit darker. Now that one. Just the highlights here, like that. And let's play around with this also. And I'm also going to try to move it a bit to see if I can make this even more like this. So I don't see this window anymore and just stretching it out like some sort of really narrow room. Or we can also remove these parts here by, let's see, the clone stamp tool. If you take the constant though we can close them and if all that out, I can make this selection, release it and I can bring it there. So we can simply get rid of that because I have a feeling this Windows still be feasible and they'll want to see it. So hogan out, make a selection that release it and then click and just simply bring it. All right, it's a lot better. And also these parts may be a bit darker. I think this is fine. All right, I like this one. Now we need to add some saturation to this. So let's go all the way to the top here. And at some hue saturation. Now forget the priestess and get rid of some of the color. Not much. Minus 10 is fine. And you can see here, Let's put this in a folder. This is our B. Now, you can see here in case we want to use this Becker maybe like this one better. You can still use this one. But I think I still want to have this a bit dark in a background, so I'm going to use that one. 14. Camera Raw: Okay, let's make some magic happen to this. So let's create a new layer on top of all the layers. And press Command Alt Shift E, or Control Alt Shift E to make a duplicated version of all the layers. Now, right mouse to this layer and convert this to a smart object. And now we're gonna go into camera. Oh, why go into Filter, camera Raw Filter. And here we can do some really a lot of adjustments to this image. So first, let's go to Basic. If you have an older version, it might look different, but dF all the same settings. So exposure maybe let's do a bit more exposure, not much. The contrast, I'm going to drop this a lot. So we can have more like a soft kind of image. So with less contrast, I feel like this is better. We can always increase the contrast after this. So the highlights, I'm going to increase a bit, so we get that punchy highlights and the shadows. Let's also make the shadows bit lighter so it doesn't get really black in the background. Now the whites, Let's increase the White-Smith going to increase this one, say Route 40. And the blacks. I'm also going to make them a bit more grayish. Now, if we drop the texture here, we can make this a release of the image. So I'm going to drop this a bit and increase a bit of clarity here. Now, next thing let's move on. Don't need this for maybe let's increase the vibrance here so we get more colors, something like this. Alright, let's move on to curse and curves. Let's, let's increase the highlights bit here. That much. The other things I won't touch here, Let's see, Let's move on to a nice reduction. If I'm going to increase this, you can see here we get this really soft kind of image. So if you want to make like your skin soft drink it increase this. But sometimes people will say, oh, it looks so much Photoshopped. But I think in this image Looks nice because it's not a real image. It's obviously Photoshop, so give it this effect that it's really soft. I think I like it in this one with a written another image, I would probably say don't do it because it's the skin gets through soft like this. Some people like it. But some photograph is, we'll say now it's not real, it's to Photoshop, but in this case I will, would, would do it. So let's do within this one. Now let's move on. Let's see what we have here. Column mixer. Let's go to hue and let's try to change this. So this is the red. We can really change these colors here. This is also how you like it. So I think maybe bit to the left like that. And this orange, let's see, minus 14, something like this. And also this one. Just make sure you also have to look at the skin color because you can see here maybe the book looks nice when it's green, but his skin color also changes. So make sure you don't throw in the skin color. That's a lot more important than the color of the Gloss. I'll make sure the skin color States bit more realistic. All right, let's move on to situation here. Let's see if we can change this orange bit here. This is from the glow. So maybe plus 50. So really glowing image. And let's also change this one. I think I like this one. It's like really glowing like this. Keeps it magical factor it. All right, let's move on to color grading. I dog, that's usually maybe some vignette to make the outer part a bit darker because we have him in the center. So making the outer part dark, it's better to have. Alright, so let's move on here. Let's see vignette. This is if you want to go even more, but I'm going to leave it at 0. Now, let's move on to calibration. Here we have some more things that we can do to recolor. So maybe play around with these settings. So if I'm moving these sliders slightly changes this image. So now we can get some really nice glow from the color glow. I mean. And let's move this a bit to the left like that. And let's see, maybe this one also BID unless the debt side. I think I like it like this. Think if I press Okay now and I compare the before and after, you can see a whole different kind of image. And this is the tricks you can do in Gemara. You can change the whole image here. So I think I like this, this looks pretty nice. 15. Finalizing: While we are curating all these kind of effects, this image, guts or fantasy like. Let's do even more editing tricks in there. So we have this layer now here on top. Let's create a new layer on top of that again and again, press Command Alt Shift E or Control Alt Shift T to make another duplicate iteration of everything we have. So and convert this to a smart object. Now, I want to add some, some areas that are blurred out to make it more like edit it. So let's go to filter and let's select the field blur in the blue category. With field blur, we can set some points to blur out. Obviously we don't want to blur them out. So here we have the settings on the right. Let's just use filbert and let's put this to 0. So nobler ethane, Let's zoom in a bit, a bit. So let's especially as phase, we don't want the blur is phase out. Now if you want to copy these settings, so for instance, I have a 0 blurrier, I want to copy these settings. I'll just hold on out and it's going to take the last point that you put, it's going to copy also there. So we don't want blur here. Don't Bob blurred there. Nobler here, nobler on his hand and probably not there. And now we can add some points with blur. So for instance, maybe month add some blur here. I'm going to place this point here and I'm going to play around with these. And you can see here, we can create some effects with this. Now obviously this is way too much so we need to find something that looks a bit realistic. So this will give the illusion like the camera did focus on its face. And this area here I've got blurred out a bit. So this is some really nice thing that you can do to your image to even make this more like, like some fantasy like image. And it'll even give more focus on its face. So let's also blur bit out here. I'm going to zoom in here a bit because it can barely see it. Maybe not too much, maybe just some extra areas there. Let's zoom out here. Let's try out here. Maybe this looks nice. Day this way too much of course, maybe just a bit somewhere there. And let's also do maybe here. In any case, see these particles starts from sharp and they are going away and getting blurred out. And there's some really nice little effects that you can do. Let's see, maybe, maybe they're a bit, maybe also there. Now you have to be careful here because if you're gonna do it too much, it's going to blur them out. So I'm going to place another point here and put this to 0 to make sure he doesn't kill it. But without just someone who coordinates Just a couple of these points and it will give something extra to this image. It's not necessarily. So you have to do this a bit carefully, but I think I like it, so I'm going to leave it like this, maybe a bit there. And once you are happy with it, press Okay. And maybe you don't even see it, but I can see this little blue it's going on. All right, so the next thing I would also do here is to blur also the edge off his shirt. So I'm going to take the blur tool. Now if the restaurant's this layer or else I cannot do this, I'm gonna make this a bit smaller. And let's see the strength we have had 15 and I'm going to, maybe this is too much. Let's put this really low, like maybe six and just go around the edge. And this way, he will blend bit better with the background. So this is also a little trick that you can do to make sure it blends very nicely with the background. Dog do it too much, just a little bit. You can even drop this law maybe tree so you don't ruin the quality of his image. And remember I said in the beginning, is here, it looks weird. Now you can barely see a type. It's something little thing that you don't even see anymore. So all these little things we don't have to worry about anymore. Everything is fixed now. And here we have the blur, so doesn't have to. And I think this is probably it. So if you compare this, we get some areas blurred out. Now. Maybe you want the darkest darks, a bit more like black instead of grades. Or you can also add some curves and just take this one and bring it a bit down and then it gets a bit more blackish. This one can go up to get more highlights if you want to. But remember his faces, really shiny now, so don't do too much. Maybe just slightly like this. And this, I think I even like a grayish like, like it makes the image a bit softer. Now we can also try out color balance. Maybe we need some changes to the colors if you want f and more neutrally can bring this a bit to the left, give it a bit more bluish like that. Let's see the difference. I think I like it like red. Looks really nice. Ad Let's try color lookup like ours tried to do with the nth, some color lookup, maybe this will be better at that. Now, this is really red, so I'm going to drop this, be just a bit reddish. And that is pretty much it. So this design is actually completed. So I'm happy with this one and I hope you learned something new in this, in these lessons, and I hope you can do this to your own image. So thank you for watching. 16. Presets (Bonus): Okay, So this is a little bonus for the people that have got my presets. You can get my presets also on my website if you want my presets, they add a little bit of extra stuff at the end. They can drastically change your image to make them look really different from the original one. You just have to know how to use them and I'm going to show you quickly how I use them so you can use them for photos. I use them for digital art because I don't take photos, I just create artwork. So first of all, let's create a new layer and press Command Alt Shift E. Now, let's make a smart object of this. Like we do our weights and let's go into camera roll. And in Kimara, we can load the settings from the presets. Now, if I press this three dots here, I can click on Load Settings and I can load the presets. So I have these presets here. They are eight breaches in this. I've tried them out with this image and I the number two is the best one that works for this one. So I'm going to use number 2. And you can see what's changes here. The gods really soft kind of image and even blend everything better together. Now, press Okay, I'm not going to change anything now. I'm just going to apply this one on top of these. Of course, this is way too much. You don't want to ruin the image TO. Whether you should do is I play with the opacity. Sometimes I just slightly apply them and maybe somewhere around 20. And sometimes I use like AD 90% of the preset on top of my image. So in this case, undoes one Arun is too much. I want to have them slightly edit to this design. And I think something like this already changes this image. So that's how easy they are. I usually use them in Lightroom itself because he Lightroom you can do a bit more editing like you can change the circle of the preset and stuff like that. And I'm going to go into this one now because this is just for this, this lesson now. So maybe another video I will go more into depth of these, but you can definitely try this out on different images and you will see how your image changes. So thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed the whole video.