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Tightrope Dancer Photoshop Tutorial

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Resources

• Lady – Depositphoto.com
• City – Antontang
• Sky – Esmeralda-stock
• Rope – Fanna1119

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Step 1

Open the ‘City’ Stock.

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Step 2

Add a Color balance Layer adjustment:

• Shadows: -33 0 +14
• Midtones: -20 0 +26
• Highlights: -19 0 +5

You’ll have this result.

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Step 3

Add a Brightness / Contrast Adjustments Layer with these settings:

• Brightness: -105
• Contrast: +64

This is the result.

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Step 4

Now we have to add the ‘Sky’ to our work. So let’s create some space above the city. Go to Image > Canvas Size and click on the arrow I’m going to show you below (1). Then replace the Height with 4912 Pixels (2).

This is what we have now.

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Step 5

Open the ‘Sky’ stock. After cropping the stock rules advise put it in a new layer above everything.

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Step 6

Now resize the sky to fit it in the canvas.

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Step 7

Add a Mask to the Sky layer. We need to blend it with the rest of the manipulation. Choose a soft round brush (Settings: Opacity > 30-40% – Size > 180 – Color > Black) and on the layer Mask start to paint at the bottom of the sky to gently delete the strong contrast between it and the city.

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Step 8

Add a Color Balance Adjustment Layer ONLY for the Sky.

• Shadows -37 0 0
• Midtones -43 0 52
• Highlights -38 0 42

This is the result.

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Step 9

The background looks too saturated. Let’s add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer

• Saturation -14
• Lightness -4

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Step 10

Add a Brightness / Contrast Adjustment Layer to give more Light. Set the brightness to +20. Here’s the result.

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