In this tutorial, we’re going to create a surreal photo manipulation of a man watching what looks to be a magical portal to another world. This will take you through all the processes with an explanation at every step. Now… Shall we begin?

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a landscape photo manipulation with blue water and sky. First, we’ll build the base scene using a sky and several landscape images. After that, we’ll add the mountains and other landscape images and blend them together using adjustment layers, masking and brushes. Later, we’ll import the…