Open a new 2268 x 3289px document at 300px/inch. Place the background and create a new layer. Pick your Bokeh brush from the disc with 30% Opacity and apply it gently onto the canvas. Select this layer, group it and set it to Linear Dodge blending mode. Download the model 7063838 and background 3233765 from www.depositphotos.com.
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| DARKEN THE BACKGROUND |
Apply a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Set the blending mode to Multiply and the Opacity at 50%. Now add a Curves adjustment. Create a point on the graph and choose 70 for the Output and 110 for the Input. Finally, add a Selective Color adjustment layer. Pick your whites and apply 100% for black, then pick your blacks and apply 15% for black too.
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| CREATE THE GLASS WINDOWS |
Choose the Rectangle tool (U) and draw two white rectangles. For the left one, apply an Inner Shadow layer style. Choose a Color Dodge blend mode at 75% Opacity, -135° Angle, 23px Distance, 12% Choke and 3px Size. For the right one, apply another Inner Shadow layer style but with 139° Angle, 0px Distance, 10% Choke and 10px Size. Set both of the layers to Soft Light with 50% Opacity.
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| ADD VIBRANT COLOURS |
For the left window, go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color. Choose #00adff and set the blend mode to Hue. Repeat this for the window on the right but with #ff005a. Select your layer mask thumbnail and grab a large eraser at 0% Hardness. Make sure your colours are set to default by pressing D and erase the left half of the image. To switch between the two colours, press Shift+X.
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| CREATE THE FLOOR |
From your Tools palette, you need to select the Ellipse tool (U) and draw a black oval at the bottom of the artwork to make the floor. Then add a new layer style to this ellipse by going to Layer> Layer Style>Inner Shadow. The colour should be set to #00adff, with a Normal blending mode, 70% Opacity, Angle at -135°, Distance set at 15px and Size at 50px.
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| PLACE THE MODEL AND FABRIC |
Extract your model from the background. Download the fabric from http://fav.me/d4b95oa. Place your fabric image below the layer of the model and extract it as well. Create a new layer and paint with a small, soft, round, black brush on low flow and opacity to make a shadow. If you think it’s too hard, reduce the opacity of the layer. This last layer should be between the model’s body and fabric.
" If you want to switch quickly between your foreground and
background colours, press Shift+X "
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| MAKE THE FABRIC BLACK |
Create a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. Set the Saturation of the layer to -100 and clip it to the fabric layer. Duplicate this layer above and set this to Multiply. Then duplicate that layer and set the Opacity to 50%. You’ll see that the flying fabric is now a black colour and perfectly blended with the colour of the dress.
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| BLEND THE MODEL |
Cmd/Ctrl-click on your model layer’s thumbnail, then create a new layer at the top, select a soft brush and paint the edges on the left in bright blue and the edges on the right in pink. Use a smaller brush and create a new layer. Paint on the highlights of the fabric lines. You can set the blending mode to Soft Light if the result is too hard.
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| EXTRA HAIR |
A graphics tablet is highly recommended for painting things like hair. Create a new layer behind the model. Select the color #4f2e17 and then paint the main hair shape using a brush. Create another new layer on top and start painting the extra details of the hair. This is the colour palette that we used: #daa988, #af6f44, #623d21 and #393026. They are in order from the brightest to the darkest shade of colour.
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| DEPTH AND DETAILS |
Create a new layer and set it to Soft Light. Pick a soft brush and paint the shadows in black and highlights in white. Create a new layer on top and set the blending mode to Screen. Pick the colour #00adff and choose 30% for the Opacity of the brush. Paint the folds of the fabric. You can also use a very large brush and paint general light around the edges to add more glow. Do the same in pink #ff005a on the right side of the dress.
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| MORE MAGIC |
You will be painting in black and white only. Create a new layer at the top, set the blending mode to Overlay and paint the edges of the dress and left side of the model in white as well as some small details such as highlights on the hair, legs and arms. Always explore with blend modes – the changes are non-destructive, and you can always revisit your blend mode settings and readjust them as needed without damaging your original image.
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| OPTICAL FLARES |
Open the optical flare images on your disc (‘Optical-8b-psdbox.jpg’ and ‘Optical-8c-psdbox.jpg’) and drag them onto the canvas. Organise and resize them as shown in the image and set their blending modes to Screen. Blur the one at the bottom with Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur using a value of your choice. It’s preferable to change the blending mode before moving such images, because you’ll be able to see better where they would be placed.
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| REFLECTION |
Duplicate the model’s layer. Ctrl/right-click on the layer mask thumbnail and choose Apply Layer Mask. Select the right hand and part of the arm with the Rectangular Marquee tool (M), press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+I to invert the selection and keep the hand only. Delete the selection then press Cmd/ Ctrl+D to deselect. Press Cmd/Ctrl+T, then Ctrl/ right-click anywhere on your canvas and choose Flip Horizontal. Move it to the right so it’s symmetrical with the model’s original hand. Set the blend mode to Soft Light and make the Opacity of the layer 50%.
♦ QUICK TIP
Commonly used blend modes are Multiply, Screen, Soft Light and Overlay. Multiply is mostly used to darken, but you can use it to remove whites from an image or to extract a black subject from a white background. Screen does the opposite. Overlay and Soft Light are almost the same. They use a mix of Screen on the lighter pixels and Multiply on the darker pixels. The difference is that Overlay is harder.
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| FLOOR REFLECTION |
Select all your layers by pressing the first one, holding Shift and pressing the last one. Go to Layer>Duplicate Layers then hit Cmd/Ctrl+E to merge them. Press Cmd/Ctrl+T, then Ctrl/right-click and choose Flip Vertical. Move the image to the bottom of the model’s dress. Move the layer to place it above the ground layer of step 5. Create a layer mask and gently erase the bottom so it looks faded.
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| FINAL EFFECT |
Create a new layer on top of all the layers. To fill it with white, press Cmd/Ctrl+Backspace, making sure that your colours are set to default by pressing D. Go to Filter>Lens Correction and select the Custom tab. On the Vignette part, choose -40 and click OK. Set the blending mode to Multiply to apply only the black colour. Finally, duplicate this last layer and you’re done!
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