Create a Surreal Game of Thrones Photo Manipulation

Star with a base color, in this case since is a winter art blue is a great color you can create a gradient like this:

Step 12 – Sky

Add a picture of a sky to give texture to the background.

Use the picture in soft light mode.

Step 13 – Mountains

Now add the mountains background. And like before place the background resize if you think if necessary and use the layer mode in soft light.

Step 14 – Light

Create a new layer and paint over that layer with dark and clear tones. Like this: If you have a tablet set the opacity to the pressure of your tablet. Use a soft round brush.

Step 15 – Soft Light

Use the layer in soft light mode to get this result

Step 16 – Colors

Make a new layer and choose soft ligth mode and paint in the top of the image with a yellow and orage tones, with a soft round brush also add black and blue around the model. Mixing colors is important to get a great result. This is a sutil change cause the opacity can be set to 20%

Here is the layer in normal mode so you can see the painting. Also you can use Gaussian blur (Menu – Filter – blur – Gaussian blur) to get more softer look.

Step 17 – Colors

To get a dramatic change use a image with sunrise color and place it over the image

Step 18 – Gaussian blur

Now go to filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur. Use 100 of radius. Press ok to save tha changes.

Change the layer to soft light

Step 19 – Model

Go back to work with the model now that the background is almot done.

Tip: The result will be better if you have a tablet. That doesn’t mean you can’t do it without it.

You need to fix some details is the model’s coat so pick a small soft round brush with a similar color ( you can use the eyedropper tool) paint in the edges of the coat. Set the opacity to the pressure of your tablet.

Step 20 – Skin

With the Eyedropper pick the color of the model skin and paint over a new layer with a soft round brush.

Step 21 – Make up

You can add some blush to the model and a little more color on the lips, to do this work with the layer in multiply mode and pick a pink tone.

Step 22 – Eye shadows

To make the eye shadows you have to follow the model’s original make up a little bit stronger in the bone of the eye and brighter around that area. This step is hard to explain cause you can be creative with the colors you use. Here is a 4 steps. Paint all with a soft round brush with natural colors.

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