China Dreamer

In this tutorial we'll learn how to correct the skin's color, make the grey hair, work with the color, create a wind's effect, shadows and place above the photo any kind of pictures.

Open the girl's photo.

 

 

Take the instrument Polygonal Lasso Tool and outline her contour, using the command Edit - Сut (ctrl+x). Cut it out. Place it on a new layer: Edit – Paste (ctrl+v), but erase the previous layer, using the button of fast erasing on Layers window. Use Smudge Tool and Brush's hardness of 0% to paint over birthmarks and skin's roughness.

 

Apply Smart Blur filter.

 

Make the picture lighter: Image - Аbjustments - Desaturate (shift+ctrl+u). Apply Image - Abjustments - Photo filter and the color Sepia.

 

Using the already known Polygonal Lasso Tool, mark out the hair, and make them lighter the second time. Increase the brightness (Image - Abjustments - Brightness/Contrast), until they will remind of grey hair.

 

Take a pair of wings that were drawn separately and place them on a new layer. It is necessary to open them as a new file and mark them with Rectangular Marquee Tool. Copy them: Edit – Copy (ctrl+c). Get back to the photo's file that should be processed and insert the wings on a new layer: Edit – Paste (ctrl+v).





Copy their size with the next command: Edit - Free Transform (ctrl+t) and change the wings' layer type on Overlay.

 

Place out a photo on a new layer, representing the desert.