This guide was made for entry: Heavenly In Contest: lace
Original image
step 1 of 9
made a rough cutout of the lady picture.
step 2 of 9
Hair cutout is difficult, so I used a different layer to avoid the cutout. I went to levels and made background areas pure white. After I changed the layer effect to multiply to get the cutout feel here.
step 3 of 9
Now I fixed both the layers in the blue background.
step 4 of 9
Added another layer and used cloud filter here.
step 5 of 9
I gave luminosity to the layer to get a bluish tone. After that I darkened some areas using burn tool & lightened some areas with dodge tool.
step 6 of 9
I added some light beams. Using lasso tool I created a selection and filled white in a new layer. Then I blurred the layer, and erased the bottom edges, and changed the layer effect to overlay.
step 7 of 9
Using brush (smoke brush downloaded from deviantart.com) I created the smoke.
step 8 of 9
The same technique I used in the step 7, I used here also.
step 9 of 9
Added some stars(brushes) in different sizes to create a heavenly mood. After all these I adde an adjustment layer on the top of all other layers and used channel mixer to get a differnt blueish green tone.
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