Create a Magical and Emotional Forest Scene of a Lost Girl in Photoshop

Here are the results.

Step 7

On the Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer mask I hided the selected part as shown in the image. You can see the overall as well as layer mask results. Here are the results so far.

Step 8

Continue coloring the forest layer with the Color Balance Adjustment layer. Set the values as shown in the image below and I also changed the tone of shadow for Cyan/Red to 1 not too much just a bit.

Here are the results.

Step 9

Now, add Gradient Map and Exposure Adjustment layer to the forest. Set the values as shown in the image below. On the layer mask of the Exposure Adjustment layer, I hid the selected part to darken the bottom right part (see the image) and I also changed the blend mode of the Gradient Map Adjustment layer to color dodge.

Here are the result so far.

Step 10

Let’s create some Fog. To do this, create a new layer by pressing (Shift + Ctrl + N) on the keyboard and name it ‘Fog’. Grab the brush tool by pressing (B) on the keyboard and change your foreground color to #a5a7a8. Then paint it with 30% opacity as well as flow. Here are the results.

Step 11

Add a layer mask to fog layer while selecting layer mask goto Filter > Render > Clouds. Apply the cloud filter once (Don’t hesitate to do it more than one time to get better results). Here you can see the results.

Step 12

Add a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer to the ‘Fog’ layer to properly blend it into the scene. Set the setting as shown in the image below.

Here are the results.

Step 13

To light up the scene, I created a new layer. Choose a soft round brush tool with opacity and flow to 30% then change your foreground color to #304653 and paint as shown in the image below.

Now change the blending mode to Color Dodge and reduce the opacity to 37%. Reducing the opacity is depend on how brighter is your color. Here are the results.

Step 14

Now, Extract the model with your favorite selection tool and place it to the main document as shown in the image below. You can see that I have kept some parts around the hair. I have also kept the leaves the part of the model because we’ll match it with forest parts and it will help us to blend the model properly to the scene without a single fuss.

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