Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Stepping into a fairytale


My Cinderella
It's totally possible to make a child appear on a photo as if they stepped into a fairytale.  The background and not the child have been altered in this process.  First you need a photo at an amusement part or a similar setting.  These are my steps:

1.  Use the magic wand to select the area you want to change then go to Feather X7 under the Select dropdown.
2.  Open the drop down Filter menu, go to Artistic and select Palette Knife.  I set mine at +24, +23, +3.  Close the window.
3.  Invert the selection and go to Filter>Blur>Gausian Blur and fix at 1px.
4.  Drop down Layer> fill solid> put in code (2bcd2  and add.  Reduce to 15% saturation.  This adds a bit of blue to the image which makes it more storeybook.
5.  Go to Layer> New Adj. Layer > Levels and move the left black lever over to about 25. 
SAVE THE IMAGE AS A JPEG
6.  Now go to the drop down File menu and choose Open As and select RAW. 
7.  Move the vibrance lever way up until you start to see strange things happening to the photo.  Mine went up to +70 before I stopped.
8.  Choose Save Image and save your jpeg again once the original window returns.

Another easy Photoshop adventure!

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