Photoshop provides a tutorial on Highland Mountain characters with glow effects

To the users of Photoshop software to say to the Highland Mountain people add rays effect of the production tutorial.

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1, open the original material large map, create an optional color adjustment layer, yellow, green, blue, white, black to adjust, parameter settings such as Figure 1-5, the effect is shown in Figure 6. This step adds orange to the picture, darkens the blue, and adds light cyan to the high light area.

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2, press CTRL + J to copy the current optional color adjustment layer, the opacity to: 60%, the effect of the following figure.

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3, press CTRL + ALT + 2 to bring up the high light selection, press CTRL + Shift + I to select the dark selection, then create the curve adjustment layer, the RGB, green, blue channel adjustment, parameters and effects as shown below. This step darkens the dark part slightly and increases the blue-purple color.

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4, press CTRL + J to copy the current curve adjustment layer, press CTRL + ALT + G to create a clipping mask, the effect of the following figure.

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5, create a color balance adjustment layer, shadow, midtones, high light adjustment, parameter settings such as Figure 11-13, after the layer to determine the opacity: 60%, the effect of Figure 14. This step mainly adds blue to the dark part of the picture, and the high light area increases the light yellow.

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6, CTRL + ALT + 2 up the high light selection, and then create a curve adjustment layer, RGB, red, green, blue channel adjustment, parameters and effects as shown below. This step darkens the area of the picture's high light.

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7, the background layer to copy a layer, press CTRL + Shift +] Top, the following figure.

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8. Enter the channel panel, copy the blue channel and get the blue copy channel. Press CTRL + M to adjust the curve, turn the sky White, and darken the other areas. Make sure to use the soft side black brush to black out the sky, the middle peak can retain part of the gray, which is conducive to increasing the sky material when better fusion, the following figure.

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9, hold down CTRL + the left mouse button click the blue Copy Channel load selection, point RGB channel to return to the layers board, to keep the selection, to the current layer to add a layer mask, the effect of the following figure.

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10, open the Sky big picture, with mobile tools dragged in, adjust the position after creating a clipping mask, the effect of the following figure.

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11, select the menu: Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur, the value is 5, the effect is as follows figure.

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12, press CTRL + M on the sky adjustment curve, RGB, red, green, blue channel adjustment, parameters and effect of the following figure. This step darkened the sky and added blue.

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13, press CTRL + J to copy a layer of sky material, hold down the ALT key to add layer mask, then use the transparent lower soft edge white brush to the peak and the sky of the connection part smear, the effect of the following figure.

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14, create a new layer, using Lasso tool to check out the selection shown in the following figure, feather 25 pixels after the fill orange: #E2865D, remove the selection after the blending mode to "overlay", the effect of the following figure.

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15, press CTRL + J to copy the current layer, blending mode to "soft light", the effect of the following figure.

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16, press CTRL + J to copy the current layer, blending mode to "filter Color", the effect of the following figure.

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17, press CTRL + J to copy the current layer, press CTRL + T a little smaller, the effect of the following figure. These steps add orange-yellow high light to the picture.

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18, create an optional color adjustment layer, the blue, magenta, white, black to adjust, parameter settings such as Figure 32-35, the effect is shown in Figure 36. This step is mainly to dim the blue and magenta in the picture, and fine-tune the color of the high and dark parts.

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19, the creation curve adjusts the layer, to the RGB, the blue channel adjusts, the parameter and the effect is as follows picture. This step increases the picture light and shade contrast.

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20, the background layer to copy a layer, press CTRL + Shift +] top, with the pen tool to pull out the characters, into the selection after adding layer mask, the effect of the following figure.

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21, fine-tuning the character part of the color, the backlight area and the bottom darkened a little, the effect of the following figure.

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22, create curve adjustment layer, the RGB channel darkened a bit, parameter settings such as Figure 41, to determine the mask filled with black, and then use the soft side of the white brush to the bottom area, the effect is as Figure 42.

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23, create an optional color adjustment layer, red, yellow, white to adjust, parameter settings such as Figure 43-45, the effect is shown in Figure 46. This step adds orange color to the picture.

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24, press CTRL + J to copy the current optional color adjustment layer, the opacity to: 30%, the effect of the following figure.

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25. Create a new layer, press CTRL + ALT + Shift + E-stamp layer, and blur the next figure selection with the Blur tool.

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26, create brightness/Contrast adjustment layer, the appropriate increase of contrast, parameters and effects of the following figure.

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27. Create a new layer, use the elliptical marquee tool to pull out the selection shown in the following figure, feather 45 pixels and fill orange and yellow: #F19F6F, remove the selection and change the blending mode to "color filter", the effect is as follows.

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28, a new layer, stamped layer. Press CTRL + Shift + U to go color, then select menu: Filters > Other > High contrast retention, numeric default, after the blending mode is changed to "soft light", the opacity is changed to: 50%. Hold down the ALT key to add a layer mask, with the soft edge of the white brush to paint the characters, the effect of the following figure.

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Finally, the picture dark part slightly darkened a bit, and then fine-tune the overall color, complete the final effect.

Well, the above information is a small part of the software users of Photoshop to bring the detailed to the Highland Mountain people add rays effect of the production of the full content of the tutorial, in general, the picture of the sky and the peak color is closer to use the channel to pull the map to retain the top of the peak of local gray, This way after changing the sky will be a lot of natural, then the users will quickly follow the small part of the tutorial to share, to make a try.