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Learn to create Magical Compositing Effects with photos in Adobe Photoshop cc | Short Master Class

teacher avatar M Amir Naseem, Graphic Designer / Creative Director

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Topics include illustration, design, photography, and more

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      0:52

    • 2.

      Moon Child Artwork

      3:18

    • 3.

      Moon Child Artwork P2

      5:59

    • 4.

      Space Men Artwork

      8:40

    • 5.

      Space Men Artwork P2

      2:49

    • 6.

      Final Project & Results

      0:50

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About This Class

In the lesson, I will teach you Adobe Photoshop Magical  Compositing, you will explore from idea how to create digital art and photo artwork with use of png and extra elements to make magical effect

Programs needed: Adobe Photoshop

The skill required: Beginner & intermediate photoshop skills

What You'll Learn, In this class I am revealing my secret different methods and techniques to create Magical Photo Manipulations and Artwork, its use in different  projects and a streamline work flow of Editing pictures and Photoshop Composite

You will learn,

  • Blending the photos in the artwork
  • Creating lighting and shadows
  • Brushing
  • Color blending
  • Use of advanced photoshop tools ( masking, custom brushes, environment creation, photoshop filters, etc.

By the end, you'll have enough basic  skills you can use for any number of projects, such as art exhibits, posters, album arts and for commercial use 

feel free to ask any questions. 

you can also follow me and visit my profile for resources 

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here is also my class that can help you bring more creativity 

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M Amir Naseem

Graphic Designer / Creative Director

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Amir is an Award-winning graphic artist working for the past 7 years internationally, he worked with many companies his clients including majorly United Nations, the Government of Canada, the Government of Pakistan and Punjab police, National Television, Atlético De Madrid Academy.

he has been published or featured in numerous global media outlets including Business Insider, Boston Art Gallery, Daily Telegraph, United Nations, and many more.

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” 

As a multiple skilled person. he does films, VFX, graphic design, digital art and creates content for different aspects of life for social change I be... See full profile

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1. Intro: Hello everyone. My name is Melissa images, tell artists and creative director. I've been working from last seven years. I've worked with major brands, including United Nations, Pepsi railway, the candidate. In this class. I'm shading all my techniques and experiences to guide you. So let's start the class. I will teach you Adobe Photoshop, magical compositing. You will learn from the idea of how to create magical digital artworks. You will learn in this class, I am revealing all my secret methods and techniques to create different photo artworks with the magical effect, you will learn blending photos in the artwork, creating lightning shadows, brushing, color blending, use of advanced Photoshop tools and a streamlined workflow of creating magical effect in Photoshop. So let's start the gloss. 2. Moon Child Artwork: So let's start the class. Now. In this class we will experience how we can create a magical effect in normal pictures. So let's start. Here. I have pictures that we will create with effect. So this is the start, and this is after all of our creating magical effect. So let's start. I will just drag this picture in the Photoshop. It will just take some time little bit. Sometimes our file is opened. After that. First of all, we will just resize it a little bit to 15 " so that we can work more smoothly and a small file size will be created. So in this picture, our idea is that we want to place this in our book. So the moon will look like it's coming out of the book. So first of all, we'll go to Select and click on subject. So our moon will be selected automatically. So now our moon is selected. We will press Command J to duplicate this layer and lead our previous layer. After that, we will just Command T and resize it a little bit. So as long and rotate it a little bit more. Resize it a little bit more again. And I think here it's perfect. So after that, I want to put also some cloud on our manipulation to create some magical effect. I have already cloud PNG downloaded from the internet. I will also share these files with you guys. So you can also use it. After that, I will just resize. Gcloud will look a little perfect. I think this is perfect. After that, we also need to add some kind of effect, some kind of fairy in it. And here is our ferry. So now we're just compositing our scene. We are composing our scene with the elements we had. And we are composting like we are creating what was in our mind. And after this procedure, we will create the shadows and highlights. So it will look more realistic. So just resize it a little bit more. And I think we can rotate it just a little and give it above this side. Yeah, I think this is cool and we can duplicate it again. And we're going to add another ferry. Flip horizontal and just resize it a little bit more. So it looks a little short. And maybe here or here. It's cool now. And then now we will start working on how we will create the shadow effect, or we will start giving the effect in our illustration. 3. Moon Child Artwork P2: To create shadows and highlights and give effect in this composting. First of all, we have to give, the effect of moon is growing for it. We will select them all and we will go to blending options. After that. First of all, we need a shadow onto the moon. We will use drop shadow to apply shadow onto them. And we will just play with this distance a little. Then we can change the location of our shadow. I think here it's fine because it's on the direction of the window. And then we can resize, change the opacity of our Moon Shadow. After that, we need to add Outer Glow. Just add Outer Glow. Select opacity according to your needs. I think it will be perfect. And you can also increase the size of your light or spread of your light as well. I think we need to load the clarity just a little. Yes. And after that, we will also add Inner Glow and we will decrease the size of poverty joke. So I love as well. Just a little note, so maybe just a little. So it looks more glowing, more, more professional and more in the scene. And just also increase the stroke just a little bit. Yes, It's looking perfect Now. After that, now we will work on the shadows and highlights of our theme. So now we will select the drop shadow a little bit and increase the capacity of our drop shadow deciliter. It's perfect. And after that, now we will select the shadows and highlights so far we've seen it. We will create a new adjustment here. And we will select curves. And we will increase our curves little bit. I think it's fine. Then we will select our backdrop for. Background color is black. And with the backspace, we will hide our almost. After that, we will use the Brush tool. We will use a smooth brush tool. Then we will start applying the highlight because the light is coming from the moon. So we will try to highlight the face area of the moon and just a little surrounding. And after that, we'll create the shadows. And we will make another adjustment layer. We will go to curves again. We will lower down the shadows. Just a little. I think it's perfect here. Yes. And after that, with the command backspace, we will hide this mask again and we will manually add the shadows. We're, we, we feel we need it. So it will look more realistic. Also, we need to make some color balance adjustment to match the skin with our moonlight. We will go to color balance and we will increase some light in it. And also after it will go to selective color. And we will decrease our black and decrease the red little. Just a little. So it will look more smooth. I think it's perfect. Now. After that, we will try to play with more things. We will try to add a little extra effect in it. For it, we can just read out our image. We hope we can add additional things in it. E.g. I. Have the picture of the space I think I can use in it, and it will look very cool. This image have a lot of stars. So the magical effect will come. I will just drag it on our on the front and then make it clean. And then we will increase the size. So yes, we will use the stars area. It will look cool. After that. Just use the eraser tool to raise the star where you don't want unwanted area. Read it from the face as well. Just a little. From the back to the stars will revolve around the moon and it will create a magical effect. So we will make another selection layer, or we can finalize our curves again to give the final touches to our illustration. And you can add some color balance as well in the pool. So that's how we can create a pseudo real magical effect in a very short way for our photo manipulations. 4. Space Men Artwork: So now we will try another photo manipulation. We will try another universe, magical effect. And we will try to editor for this. We will select this picture and drag it in our Photoshop. It will take time. It depends on your Photoshop. If you have great computer or slow computer. It depends on it. Sometimes it takes time to open the file because sometime file size are really big. So we need to resize our files according to our requirement. If we are working for a digital or maybe working for men. So now we will resize our file first. We'll go to image, image size, and we would turn it to 15 ". So it will be a bit small in the side and it will be easy to work with it. After that, we will drag our universe. Hey, I'm trying to set up my scene in my mind. So accordingly, we will drag it and we will work on it. So here is our scene. After that, we will hide it. And we will select this layer and go to Select. And we will select our subject. So our subject will be automatically selected. It will take time. Sometimes after that we will use the selection tool, Quick Selection Tool, increase the selection area. And we will just Command J. After that, I will put this file above, so it will be front. After that, we need to make some more tweaks, some more edits. First of all, we need to merge it with both. For it, we will try to give a different effect. Like we can try to give screen effect or maybe, But I think normally it's fine. And after there, we will just use the eraser tool to smooth out the rough edges. So it will be merged with each other. This Take your time. The more you focus on the detail, the better results you will get. Will try to say just a little bit, It's perfect. Now, after that, we need to focus on two fronts. We need to make focus on our highlights for it. We will just increase, we will just create a new adjustment layer and we will go to curves and increase the highlights. And we will mask it, or we will clip it with our main subject layer. Then we will use beggar mode as black and hide our mask. With the brush tool. We will highlight the area which are directly touching the lights. So it will create unique highlights and it will blend our image with the scene in a more better way. It's compulsory, You can do it. It will give more realistic result to your artworks, to your details. After that, we will again create another curves layer. And we will decrease the shadows to create the shadows of our work. After that same, we will hide our mask and clip it to the main subject layer, and then we will just start brushing with the brush. We will apply some highlights, some shadows, weird. We need to add some shadows. So it will look more realistic or a little more work to do with the background. After that, we can make it a little blur for it because our scene is blurred from this side. So we have to make our background blur as well. We'll go to the filter, we will go to Blur. Gaussian Blur. You can apply a Gaussian blur according to our requirement. How much we feel like we need to apply. And then we can just, I think four or five is fine. It's okay. We can use it to that 5.10. We can also make its duplicate layer and make it as screened, create a little more futuristic or return more blended effect. And then we can erase that. So it can blend with the picture. After that, we have some more elements. We can use them, e.g. we have space dust and space particles. We can use it. We will just select it and drag it to our blend. And then we can resize these particles just a little. So it will look like. It's going on, something going on in our environment. Then we can also blurred. This also will go to blood, will go ahead and blur again. We can blur it a little bit less because it's close to the subject. And then we can use our Eraser tool to clean up our main subject. Just take your time. It is a very quick way because we have already find our images, we have already find our content. Just take your time and do it in step-by-step, displaying your idea, and then you can plan it and then you can anything you need. We have also another space picture. We can blend it with details. Well. We can apply screen. And then we can increase the size just a little. Something like we can, we can try, we can experiment if we can generate a interesting subject, and then we can use always we can use the eraser tool to refine that area. I think it's looking pretty interesting if we overlay it or multiply it, it will create hole better effect. You can keep with screen and we will try to lower its opacity. And it's looking pretty amazing. It's just depend on how much to assess if you want. You can use it if you don't want. We will avoid it. Depends on our personal choices. At the end we will merge all our layers by commodity. And then we can add some final touches or find a level to our portrait and our artwork is ready. We can add some highlights just a little bit. And our artwork is almost ready. So this is how we can make artworks with some magical effects with our existing elements, we can use a simple picture and then we can apply some PNG images over it to create the magical effect in very easy and very quick way. We can also create a little bit more effect with the other debri, like it's moving, it's kinda motion. We will go to the filter, will again use the blood and we will use the motion blur. We will use the radial blur. So it will look like in the motion. You can change the effect into the Zoom. And 29 or 30 is perfect. And it lot it's looking at perfect way like it's in the motion. And it will give that effect of moving away and very cinematic and very genuine realistic effect. So that's how we can create magical effect by using PNG is an element in a very quick way. 5. Space Men Artwork P2: After that, we have some more elements. We can use them, e.g. we have space dust and space particles. We can use it. We will just select it and drag it to our plane. Then we can resize these particles just a little. It will look like it's going on, something going on in our environment. Then we can also blur. This. Also will go to blood, will go ahead and blur again. We can blur it a little bit less because it's close to the subject. And then we can use our Eraser tool to clean up our main subject. Just take your time. It's a very quick way because we have already find our images, we have already find our content. Just take your time and do it in step-by-step. Explain your idea, and then you can plan it and then anything in it. We have also another space picture. We can blend it with it as well. We can apply screen. And then we can increase the size just a little. Something like we can, if we can try, we can experiment, if we can generate an interesting subject, and then we can use that. Always. We can use the eraser tool to refine that area. I think it's looking pretty interesting if we overlay it or we multiply it, it will create all better effect. We can keep it screen and we will try to lower its opacity. And it's looking pretty amazing. Depend on our choices. If you want, you can use it if you don't want. We will avoid it. Depends on our personal choices. And we can also create a little bit more effect with our debrief. Like it's moving, it's in the motion. We will go to the filter. We will again use our blood and we would use the motion blur. So it will use the radial blur. So it will look like it's in the motion. We can change the effect into the Zoom. And 29 or 30 is perfect and it's looking at perfect way like it's in the motion. And it will give that effect of moving away and very cinematic and very genuine realistic effect. So that's how we can commute magical effect by using PNGs and elements in a very quick way. 6. Final Project & Results: So here is the final result of our class. If you have any question regarding the class, you can ask it in the discussion section of the class. For the class project, you can edit a picture of yourself or your friends. Show before and after of editing, you can use different pictures. Are pictures from project resources or from your own guilty. You have to follow my procedure. First of all, select your picture and then select the extra element that you want to add on the picture, maybe moon, something like that. And then you can add some extra pictures like background picture, and then submit it as a class project. So I can give you feedback and critique and get a chance to win Amazon gift card or install ground for the show. Thank you.