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 !