Final effect
| 1, open the background material. |
, the night can better reflect the loneliness, so we should first adjust this picture to the night effect, click on the layers of the panel below the "Create a new fill or adjust the Layer" button, select "Hue/Saturation" in the menu, such as the next adjustment.
| 3, use the same settings to bring up "gradient map", where the gradient color set to "black to white" gradient. |
| 4. Set the blending mode of the layer to soft light, and the opacity set to 40%. |
| 5. Create a new layer, select "Gradient Tool", radial mode, set the gradient "black to Transparent", tick "reverse" on the toolbar, and draw the gradient from the center to the lower right corner, as shown in the following figure. |
| 6, in the PS open the character photos, pick and paste the characters to the canvas. |
And pasted, we found that his skirt was missing a corner, so we can pick one down from the other photos, make the dress complete, here if the color of the skirt is inconsistent, you can use the "color balance" to adjust, so that the white skirt color uniformity, complete the skirt layer merged.
| 8, create a new layer, select the "gradient tool", as in the 1th part of the setting, pull the gradient from the center left and Lower corner, press Ctrl+alt+g to make a clipping mask. |
| 9, double-click the merged "Girl" layer, bring up "layer style", set "inner Shadow", get the shadow of the girl's edge. |
| 10, click on the layer below the "create a new fill or adjust Layer" button, in the pop-up menu select "Color Balance", the following figure set, here to remember to click "Cut to Layer." |
| 11, a new layer, hold down the CTRL key, with the mouse click on the characters to call the character selection, click on the Menu "Edit > Fill", select "50% Gray", get the following effect. |
| 12, choose the "Deepen/dodge" tool, smear on the character, where the need for high light with a deepening tool smear, shaded part with Dodge tool smear, here set the exposure: 6-9%. |
| 13, finally the layer of the blending mode set to soft light, get this effect. |
| 14. Open the material of the lantern. |
| 15, the "light" pick down, paste onto the canvas, using the "Free transform" to resize, as shown in the following figure. |
| 16, select the "Brush Tool", select a soft corner of the pen, the foreground color set to "#e6dfb0", in the surrounding to smear. |
| 17, after the completion of the layer blending mode set to "strong light" and the opacity set to you 40%, get the following effect. |
| 18. Create a new layer, fill it with black, select Filter > Render > Lens flare, and set the blending mode to "color filter" as follows. |
| 19, in a new layer, select the "Brush Tool", set the foreground color to # e9d89b, the following smear to make a light source. |
| 20, and then set the blending mode to "overlay" to get the following effect. |
| 21. Create a new layer, select the soft corner brush tool, set the foreground color to black, set the opacity of the brush to 20%, smear the lower edge of the character, as shown in the following figure. |
| 22, through the above smear, our characters will not be in the sense of floating, you can see that he and the ground is a good combination. |
| 23, after the completion of the CTRL +alt+shift+e to seal the layer, select "Filter > Render > Lighting Effect", the intensity of the color set to # F6F2DD, set the lighting parameters as follows. |
