Create your Magic effects later.

The first thing I want to tell you is that ideas are more important than technology. Technology is relatively easy to improve, PS commonly used commands so much, take time to always master. The focus should be on why and how to do it, rather than on specific data.

　　One: Pre-filming

Always like to see the fantasy theme novels and movies, the most favorite game is "the door of the Bo de" series. This is my inspiration and foundation for this group of movies. After the subject is determined then all the work should be done around this topic. The venue is the "Jinling 13-Chai" shooting base, simple to do the old church is suitable for this theme. Model I chose the often cooperative sister Liang, cold eyes completely reached my request. It is difficult for the average sister to show the charm of the mage I imagined. Clothing is a monk clothing, props bought magic staff, rings, necklaces, English books, are a treasure net shopping.

The magical world I imagined was mysterious, full of elemental power and magical effects. In reality, simple shooting is difficult to show such effects, so late synthesis is essential. Do the movies that need special effects be made from green behind the scenes? But a lot of beginners have always had a misunderstanding, that the late to learn is a photographer master. I am in the network class teaching students repeatedly stressed the importance of the early stage, even if you take the composition background, light perspective always and the background on it (this is the key to the synthesis of natural or not), the model's eye posture is the later unresolved problems.

This film is the first of the photos, account of the overall environment. The old church, dark clouds, wind and rain, flying bats, a black-robed wizard figure. Mystery, oppression, desolation is the feeling I want to express. The original film is shot with a super wide 16mm, using wide-angle deformation to enhance the visual impact. Using a standard lens or a telephoto effect would be a lot worse. Although the sunny day is a good shot of the weather, but the theme of the outdoor part of filming rainy days more appropriate. Can not choose the weather only late to the dark environment.

　　Ii. Post-production

I want to be the effect of wind and rain, blue sky and white clouds certainly do not meet. Below to replace the sky, copy the background layer, choose the sky and ground sky handover part (specific method can be found online, space is limited to one by one), reversed-phase selection, add layer mask. (Friends who are unfamiliar with the mask must have a good understanding.)

Drag into the sky material (material in Baidu and a lot of material sites can be found, it is important to find the material for your film) placed under the layer one, changing the size of the sky in the right place.

The border between the ground and the sky shows unnatural, with a white soft corner brush that reduces opacity to smear on the mask. Until the feeling transitions naturally.

There is no explanation for the part of the ground and sky, so we have to add some background trees. Drag into the background tree material, renamed background tree, placed above the sky layer. Edit Transformation Zoom resize, put it in the right place

Change the layer mode to overlay (layer mode is often used in the synthesis, different modes will have a big difference, you can practice to experience) add a layer mask, with a soft angle brush to make its edge transition natural. Set up the adjustment layer for brightness and color adjustment, into the whole picture. It is a matter of personal habit to use what order to adjust, as long as can achieve own goal can. Adjustments must be made with layers to modify. )

Set the adjustment just to a group "background tree". (General later synthesis will have a lot of layers, name, grouping are for later adjustment, management convenience) Next is the adjustment of the ground, the original film is a large number of pieces of gravel, messy and with modern elements. From the other film to find the right lawn, add a mask to wipe, this piece of larger area to choose a few more grass back and forth combination. into a group of "grassland".

Now the buildings and floors are brighter relative to the sky. Ctrl-click a layer mask to appear in the selection. Set up the graph layer to darken and erase the characters ' parts.

The blue roof of the building and part of the wall side light, set up adjustment layer adjustment brightness, into a group "dark".

To add some sense of mystery and space, echoing the mist of the background tree. New layer Paint Some mist with a smoke brush. (Brush on the internet everywhere) notice is good, not too eye-catching, grouping "mist."

Look at the whole, now the characters appear a little flat, now need to highlight the bright part of the people's clothes. New layer ' character highlight ' with white soft corner brush paint, layer properties changed to soft light. The white belt is more eye-catching, select the belt to establish a brightness contrast layer ' belt pressure dark ' overall pressure dark.

The overall left side of the picture, with dead trees to balance the picture is a better choice. Drag into the withered branches of the material (the leaves of the branch is not as good as the withered tree to reflect the theme of the atmosphere) resize position, add a layer mask. Wipe off some too bright places. Reduce layer opacity. The left side of the screen also placed a withered tree and the right side of the echoes, but the layer opacity should be lowered to avoid too eye-catching.

Grassland area than large lack of change, do some of the withered branches of the projection can enrich the picture, add into the deep. Drag into the dead tree edit transform into the appropriate shape. Use brightness contrast to black, Gaussian blur, reduce layer opacity. The projection should have a strong and weak attenuation change, add layer mask, use the eraser tool to reduce the opacity of the wipe projection resulting in near-far-reaching shallow effect. Grouping ' projections '.

The overall effect has, now lacks some flowing element, lets the picture live up, chooses the bat according to the theme. The most important thing is to keep the bats in the right place, otherwise it will make the picture appear very messy. Drag into the group bat footage, layer mode to darken. Curve reduces brightness, hue saturation decreases saturation. Add a layer mask and erase the parts you don't want.

Drag into the single bat footage, reducing brightness and saturation, making filters based on the direction of flight-blur-motion blur.

According to the flight momentum and the overall picture of the other bats, according to the location and you want to set the effect of each bat layer of opacity, to do the move without chaos. This is no formula, can only rely on the aesthetic of the individual. All bat layers are grouped ' bats '.

As a whole, there are some obvious bright spots in the circle of the picture, and the Chinese characters in the church are outdated. Fixed with the stain repair tool and the stamp tool. These are the details, and the accumulation of every detail is the essence of Ascension.

Repair the map from the whole to the local, and then from the local to the whole, repeated debugging. We have made separate layers for each adjustment before, so we can make a separate adjustment according to the overall effect. The following color processing, save to import Lightroom. (to form a good habit of filing at any time)

Color in the forebrain to have the desired picture, what kind of tone to foil their own theme. The blind result of the blind tune is conceivable. Inexperienced friends can find similar topics on the web for reference, mimicking tones. According to the theme I gave this film is a cold low saturation dark tone.

Lightroom Adjustment Parameters:

Import PS to make the final adjustment, and then look down the color after the screen has any discomfort, I modified some small details will not repeat steps. Reduce the saturation of cyan in hue saturation.

Create a curve to darken the whole environment, with the mask to erase the characters part. Plus the logo is done. The latter is the implementation of the early ideas. PS is used to enhance the theme of ideas and ideas. We must not overlook the importance of early filming.

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