The magic realism scene in the synthesis of ice and snow in Photoshop

Referring to "magical realism", the friends who like reading will immediately think of Marquez's "Hundred Years of Loneliness". Of course, this style of writing is not only written by the Colombian literati, China's poets also pen endless. And now, more than literature, photography has also blown the territory of the magic wind, with the digital later to create a magical world has occupied the place of photography. Let us follow the photographer Autumn pupil, a revealing how to use PS powerful late skills, to create the magic realism in the snow and ice, so that your photographic works in the combination of auxiliary elements, eventually transformed into exquisite works of the novel illustrations!

The author of the Blind Singer: the pupil of Autumn

　　Material required for later tutorials :

Instance Post process:

Step One:

1. Load "Material 1" and "Material 2" into Photoshop. and "Flip horizontally" the canvas of the two pictures. Extend the background length of "Material 2" to allow space to hold the original image.

2. "Ctrl+j" copy a "copy of the original" out, for "Material 1" and "Material 1 copy" two layers to add a black mask, use a white brush to divide 3. Put the "Tree heart Piano" in the whole picture of the median position, so that "girl", "Tree Heart" and "Spirit Beast" three form the seesaw balance relationship, and to fine-tune the proportions of each element. Spirit Beast huge bulky, so in order to achieve the overall picture of the sense of balance, thin "girl" to stand on the left, away from the tree. As shown in Figure 1.

(Figure 1)

Step Two:

1. As shown in Figure 2, load "Material 3" into the working image, "ctrl+t" and press the "shift" key to scale the graph proportionally. Make the root of the tree and the "heart of the Harp" natural interface, add a black mask with a white brush to pull out the root of the perfect.

2. Use the "Color temperature observation method" to match the color tone, the root and tree tones are unified, and "Ctrl+shift+alt+n" to create a new layer, using the stamp Tool imitation "tree Heart" and "root" texture convergence, so that the whole tree perfect fusion, "Material 3" merged to "Material 1 copy Layer, the preliminary effect is shown in Figure 3.

(Figure 2)

(Figure 3) step three:

1. The girls in "material 1" were refined. Use the "liquefaction" tool to properly adjust the beauty of the body, body and skirt.

2. "Ctrl+j" copies a layer of "Material 1 copy 2" Out, executes the "Shadow/Highlight" command, using the Mask eraser out the dark part of the hair details.

3. The use of "neutral gray painting bone" to the characters of the level of light and shade, costumes and the visual effect of the fusion degree of light and dark relations to the fine repair.

4. Select the "Material 2" layer, "ctrl+4" selected the green channel, "CTRL + a" Full selection channel, "CTRL + C" Copy channel, "Ctrl+5" selected the blue channel, "CTRL + V" Paste channel, "Ctrl+2" selected RGB full channel, "Ctrl+d" to cancel the constituency, Through the above 7 "CTRL +" Channel processing, "Material 2" warm tone has become a cold cyan. This step is for the following added snow effect service, because the winter cold depression characteristics of the main environmental color of the two, one is pale color, the other is dark cyan. Snow and ice are white, in order to highlight our next ice and snow effect, so let the image of the hue to the dark cyan.

5. Access alone is not enough, next, using the "optional color" and "curve" tools for fine-tuning, when the main color adjustment to the effect we want, and then use the "color temperature observation" to "Girl" and "tree" tone wrapping to the "daemon background" in the main color. Constantly enlarge and reduce the whole picture, observe the pixel edge of each element, the color gradient, the illumination position and the light and shade transition are natural and reasonable, create new layer, make fine fine-tuning to the unreasonable place using the stamp blending mode. When all the elements are unified, "ctrl+shift+alt+e" stamped layer, set up "color balance" layer, the "shadow, midtones, High light" for the whole map of the color balance processing, so that the final full picture of the color to achieve seamless convergence and perfect transition. The effect figure is shown in Figure 4.

(Figure 4) step four:

Based on the current effect layer, copy the layer copy, execute the "threshold" command, pull the slider left and right, so that the white tree tops, the ground, and even the main body and related auxiliary elements show snow and snow effect as the benchmark. The threshold effect graph is shown in Figure 5.

(Figure 5)