A Work in Progress: Alone On The Grid

This guide was made for entry:
Alone On The Grid
In Contest:
tronspiration

step 1 of 6

Place the city and copy over a few times to make it look more dense.

Use the colourize to make everything blue. Fix contrast and brightness.

Use a gradient for the ground. Add a shadow where the city and the ground meet.

step 2 of 6

Create the grid floor by drawing some shapes then setting the blend options to make it glow, bevel and shadow.

step 3 of 6

Place it on the floor with the perspective and deform tool.

Make a copy of it which you will blur and brighten and place overtop to make it look like it has a faint glow.

Fix the contrast of the layer underneath to make it stand out more if needed.

step 4 of 6

Place the sky and change the hues to blue colours.

Copy the sky and blend the copy down with a motion blur to get a streaky look.

Set the blending options to vivid light.

Fix the contrast of the sky underneath and sharpen if needed.

step 5 of 6

Rotate the streaks slightly.

Copy the city and place it in the background of the original city. Colourize it to bluish hue, blue and brighten it.

Take this blurred city and place it in the foreground of the city and make it smaller to add a foreground glow. Change the hue to a slightly different colour.

step 6 of 6

Place the man and copy him to another layer.

Use the neon and diffuse glow to give him the glowy blue hue.

Then use the blending options as shown to make him stand out more.

Then use a layer mask to bring his face forward and set the fill for the above layer to about 80 percent.

Final result

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