The Babel Tower Photo Manipulation

The Babel Tower Photo Manipulation

by Loredana Papp on November 21, 2010

In this tutorial we will learn how to create one big construction from many architectural parts. In the steps below I will show you how to combine the traditional photo manipulation with matte painting resulting in a renaissance piece. A PSD is included with this Photoshop tutorial.

Preview of Final Results

final-results[6]

The Babel Tower Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial

Resources

Tower – SXC
Colosseum1 – astock-stock
Colosseum2 – araken-starway
Colosseum3 – neverfading-stock
Sky Pack – resurgere
Cliff – ladydetemps
Hills – mizarek-stock
Hills2 – SXC
Sand – SXC
Sand2 – Della-Stock

Step 1

Create a new file. Open the sky photography and place it like I did in the image.

step-001[4]

Step 2

Cut out the tower and drag it on top of the sky photo.

step-002[4]

Cut out half of the tower and place it a bit to the right as you see in the image below.

step-002a[4]

Go back to the first tower layer and transform it using the warp tool so all the pieces of the tower will look as one object. You can cut out more pieces of the first tower until it looks right.

step-002b[4]