Mistakes Of Lives Past.

 I started with a sky image I took in London..

as you can see, some major adjustments had to be made.

First of all, I removed London Eye, The buildings in the background, The river and boats.

Then, I made it into square format.

Didn't care much about how neat it was because I knew I would be adding some woods onto it.

Secondly, I gave the sky a cyan tint (Colour balance) 

because I first intended for my image to be cyan.

Then, I added the woods image on top of it.

(edited the bottom of it so it would fit the square format.)

also didn't care much about how neat it was because the texture would cover it.

Now I played around with the colour balance and curves, setting them to green and red.

then I added the textures and crows.

Vignetting

Adding the ghost (fixing her hair and dress)

More vignetting.

Let go of your mistakes..

Closer Than You Think.

This was really fun to make !!

First of all, here is a picture of a sky I took a while back

in rainy Liverpool-England <3

I edited out the building and the light post.

simple patch and clone stamp.

Then I tinted the skies purple 

and added another image of a field I also took in Liverpool.

Then I reconstructed some of the skies.

and done some editing to the field.

mostly playing around with the red and green in the 

colour balance and curves.

Then of course came the girl

Minor hair and raven / crow editing.

TEXTURES !

I have around 5 textures here.

with lowered opacity and some are desaturated 

so that they wont effect my colour tones.

Some vignetting.

and presto !

Its Closer Than You Think.

Transportation.

This was easy to make, just a little long, so I wont do screenshots.

basically what I did was change the color of the sky by adding a photo filter

solid brown color set to color dodge

and some color balance.

Then came the balloons which is my own stock.

(these are originally one balloon that is red.)

I desaturated it, lighten it, then copied and resized it.

I copied the "new" sky layer over the balloons,

set it to overlay then set a layer mask and masked out all the sky except on the balloons

this makes them less opaque.

Finally, I added some textures and some desaturation.

and viola !

How To Go Vintage.

I'm in the mood for some dreamy vintage coffee shots.

So here you go:

This is the original, shot with natural light and perfectly exposed.

Add solid color #374a53 and set it on Exclusion

Next, add solid color #fdffd2 and set it to lighten

Change the opacity to: 39

and Fill to: 15

Now comes the fun part ! CURVES!

set them as shown.

RGB: Point 1: Output: 244

                      Input: 239

          Point 2: Output: 221

                      Input: 175

        Point 3: Output: 53

                      Input: 59

        Point 4: Output: 41

                      Input: 0

RED: Point 1: Output: 254

                      Input: 252

          Point 2: Output: 218

                      Input: 178

        Point 3: Output: 63

                      Input: 61

         Point 4: Output: 58

                      Input: 0

GREEN: Point 1: Output: 254

                      Input: 241

          Point 2: Output: 227

                      Input: 201

        Point 3: Output: 75

                      Input: 93

       Point 4: Output: 60

                      Input: 0

BLUE: Point 1: Output: 217

                      Input: 250

          Point 2: Output: 79

                      Input: 41

        Point 3: Output: 48

                      Input: 0

Now adjust the colour balance as above.

Then duplicate it and set the blending mode to screen,

Then adjust the opacity of the new layer to 38%

This will give it some light.

To get some contrast and a little desaturation,

Put a black/white gradient map (set it on reverse if necessary)

and then change the blending mode to multiply.

Hope you enjoyed this.

Have a good day folks !

How to make'm FLY !

Heey guys !!

Looking through my stream, I realized that I had a crappy levitation tutorial..

it was very rushed !!

so now I am doing a better one..

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For every levitation shot, you should always use a tripod (or a table)

the idea is that the camera doesn't change place.

you take the picture of your subject and where you want her/him to be

( use a stool, table, chair if necessary) and take a picture of the background free of any clutter

after that, put them over each other and use a layer mask to erase the cushion

 or just use an eraser

(layer mask is the grey square with white circle in the middle, use a brush

to either erase or restore your image.

remember: black erases, white restores)

After erasing, I realized it was impossible to salvage the foot, it was too squished

to the cushion to look real.

so i just erased it and reconstructed it from the other foot

Then came the butterflies and exposure adjustment.

A black/white gradient map for B&W

And 'S' curves layer for more contrast

Then a vignetting..

and voila !

How to get that catalog / magazine look - Perfect Pink.

Most magazine and catalog (even some advertisements) are bright and pastel-like.

Keep that in mind when shooting

I'm gonna do separate tutorials on how to get them in 

other colors, such as a bluish tint or a yellow glare.

Lets start with the hot pink.

as you can see, the pink coloured perfume and sticker

helped enhance my pink mood.

First of all, start with a bright image 

(if your image isn't bright enough, duplicate the layer and set it to screen.)

For me, I felt this is too narrow, so I decided to go for the

square 'expansion'

(to make this happen, either lift or lower your cam and shoot)

always make sure you are working on manual focus

so that the focus wont change on you

(you can always put it on auto then switch if you aren't ready 

to go full manual)

Then we start working on the photo.

first of all, we brighten it with a curves layer.

output = 142

input = 110

Then, we will remove all white parts and turn them into

pale pink. for that, I added a solid colour layer

 I sampled the pink from the bottle, then I set it to multiply.

Colour number: fffbfb

Then, to add more contrast and lighten the image a bit,

we will add another colour layer, but this time we set it to soft light.

Colour number: f8e7dd

Then we will play with the color balance, tinting it red.

Colour levels: Red + 27

make sure you are on midtones.

A subtle desaturation with -10

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and then a simple vignetting.

to get that effect, select a circle in the middle of your image, inverse

then add a curves layer, darken it as much as needed and click ok.

click on the layer mask and Gaussian blur it at the highest radius.

Hope you enjoyed it and it was clear and easy..

Thank you.