This guide was made for entry: Soul In Contest: the soul
step 1 of 5
Rendered some lighting effects on girl in coffin
step 2 of 5
rendered some clouds on new layers in black and white then skewed them to an angle, and brought opacity down.
duplicated layer and used a large brush to clean up rough edges
step 3 of 5
Rendered another layer of clouds in yellow and white then skewed to center and brought down opacity, smoothing edges with eraser
step 4 of 5
cut screaming girl from background and lightened skin using replace color
step 5 of 5
used the pen tool to put a swirl around the "spirit" and erased parts behind her back. Then blured girl out, and added a bit of light reflecting off her body from the swirls of light.
To finish off I added a scattered, faded brush of dots at the base and some lighter ones toward the top of the "spirit's" head