Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Photoshop

January 4th, 2010 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Photo Editing

Using the Pen Tool (P) in Shape Mode, try to make the shape, applying the earlier described method.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
For this layer click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Glow:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Apply Gradient Overlay

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer and select here the Soft Round brush to represent the reflection on the girl’s body the same way as below. The brush’s colors are red and violet (Opacity 15%).

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
This layer will be situated under the layer containing the shape.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Alt button and click between the layers on the Layers’ panel to apply this effect just for the girl’s layer:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer and choose for it a Soft Round brush to paint the girl’s body with different colors.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make some brushstroke with colors and Opacity as shown:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Alt button and click between the layers on the Layers’ panel to apply these colors just for the girl’s layer:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set Blending mode to Color for this layer

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make two copies of the layer containing the shape and then press Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to turn over the copies the same way demonstrated below. Place the copies’ layers lower than the very first shape’s layer:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Apply different Opacity for the copies’ layers:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Now we should click on each copy’s layer on the bottom part of the Layers’ panel on Add layer mask icon and choose the Soft Round brush of black color to clean out the copies’ layers, selected below:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make some brushstroke to clean the indicated zone

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer again above the previous one, but lower than the layer containing the red element (on the girl’s body). Select on this layer the next brush from grunge procedural set. The brush’s colors are black and white.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make some brushstroke using black and white color as shown

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Select for the layer with the brush the next filter – Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Add another adjustment layer. Select Create new fill or adjustment layer icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
This layer will be placed above all the previous layers.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
On a new layer (Create new layer) we’ll apply the Hard Round brush and Soft Round brush of white color with different brush size to represent many dots, the same way demonstrated next picture.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Finished!

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  • Subhadeep Gayen

    04/01/2010

    Nice one, increasing image contrast will make it more merge with the background…keep up

  • west-design

    07/01/2010

    Great POST thx for sharing!!

  • Dumm

    09/01/2010

    girl was the perfect choice for this tutorial. bravo!!!

  • john

    20/01/2010

    awesome dude… u made it so simple to understand!!!kudos

  • The Web Tuts

    01/05/2010

    Tutorial added to the web tuts

  • Jhaiyne

    16/05/2010

    nice.. :) ) i wanna learn more…

  • Gasy Yooth

    18/05/2010

    that’s damn good!!! thanks dude!!!

  • Wes_ter

    19/10/2010

    Thanks for sharing ^ ^

  • Folysunk

    18/05/2011

    Nice Thumbup b

  • Arcc

    22/05/2011

    post sum moe tutorials… fun to use it :)