A Work in Progress: DOORWAY TO HEAVEN

This guide was made for entry:
DOORWAY TO HEAVEN
In Contest:
door mania

step 1 of 10

Open the image, and with pen tool select the inner part of the door. Right click when you are done with the pen tool. press make selection and give 1 for feather. press ok. Now that you have your selection. press ctrl+J this will create a new layer.

step 2 of 10

This is how your new layer looks like. Next. open your clouds image and put it above.
Now you are going to make a clipping mask. to do this, move the cursor in the line between the two layers. Press alt+ left click .

step 3 of 10

this is what you get.
now you can make visible the door layer. pressing the eye in the thumbnail.

step 4 of 10

Now this is the image, with the clouds.
select the cloud layer and select layer- layer mask-reveal all. with a soft brush and black color start painting at the bottom to make the clouds diffuser.

step 5 of 10

open the image with the two girls. take the girl left side, and with pen tool make a selection with 1 feather and ctrl+j to make a new layer with the girl. now press ctrl+c and go your image of the door and here press ctrl+v

step 6 of 10

this is how it looks with the girl.

step 7 of 10

open the wings image. You have to work with each wing in different layers. To do this, pick the rectangle tool and choose one wing, then press ctrl+ j and you have your new layer. do the same with the other wing. Now you can move each wing to your door image.

step 8 of 10

ctrl+T in the wing layer and your can move it and free transform it. when its the size you want, put it in the back of the girl. Now press layer mask and with black color erase part of the wing so it looks like its part of the back of the girl. do the same with the other wing.

step 9 of 10

to this layer adde gradient map, apply levels and hue&sat

step 10 of 10

create a new layer and painted with white a circle in the top of the door. apply blur- radial blur. and finally used a light beam brush.

Final result

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