PS Master advanced: Landscape photos become Ghost Castle

This tutorial describes how to use Photoshop and the wacom Intuos2 A4 drawing pad to make digital matte, and if there is no drawing board, it may be troublesome to perform hand-drawn effects.

Note: Every step of the tutorial, unless specifically reminded, you should create a new layer, so that it is easy to modify, but also to avoid a small error and naught.

First look at the effect:

Finish effect

Original photo image

1. The above photos in Photoshop Open, you can find some of your favorite photos, but the shape of the best is similar to the castle.

2. First pull the house away from the background and put it in a new layer. Here I used the polygonal lasso tool to select the house and erase the background with a softer eraser tool.

3. Now you need a new background, you can pick one from the library, you can draw your own. To save time, I used a ready-made picture on the internet here.

4. Put the sky behind the house (the sky layer below the floor) and add a little perspective to the sky to increase the depth of the background. The picture view of the house in the tutorial is relatively low, which makes our work easier.

5. Watch the edge of the house, there are still some colors of the original sky left on it. Let's fix it.

6. Use the Magic Wand (Magic Wand) tool, select the space where the floor is empty, then execute the Select > Modify > Expand command to enlarge the selection, and enter a suitable number to include the selection to the edge of the house where the color is required. Perform the image > Adjust > Hue/saturation command to adjust the color of the edges to match the color of the roof.

7. Continue to use hue/saturation to adjust the color of houses and skies so that they can be integrated harmoniously.

8. Now we are going to remove the palm trees that are next to the house, and these trees have little to do with the horror of creating the picture.

This is the most complicated step, because we have to hand-draw the tree to block the place.

I used the Photoshop copy stamp (clone stamp) tool, which allows you to paint with other parts of the screen. For example, use the Copy Stamp tool to copy the tiles of a house to draw a section between one layer and two layers.

9. Add a bolt of lightning to give the picture a sense of tension. Use a brush without feathering to draw a bolt of lightning, copy it to a new layer, and add a glow effect. Then use the Dodge (Dodge) tool to highlight the clouds at the root of the lightning.

10. Use pictures or hand-painted around the house to add some dead trees, remember to adjust the color and brightness.

11. In order to make the house look more shabby, I drew a hole in the roof.

12. Continue to add the damaged effect. You can see I broke the beam and the aqueduct, broke another roof and glass. When you break something, remember to use the copy stamp (clone stamp) tool to fill in the vacated area.

13. Add some stains. First is the window, I used an irregular brush to add some noise to the glass. Then change the layer blending mode of the stain to make it mix well with the glass. In this tutorial I use the brightness (luminosity) mode.

14. Repeat the same steps for the entire house, using a darker color and setting the layer blending mode to overlay (Multiply) mode.

Pay attention to seams and edges, this place is the easiest to produce stains. This is a time-consuming project, calm down to carefully deal with, do not do not move the brain everywhere painting.

15. The porch details enlarge.

Final completion.