How to Create a Surreal Traveling House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Activate the Brush tool (B) but before we start, make sure that the active Brushes are the default brushes. The default Photoshop brushes are shown on the image below, if that’s not what you see, then follow the instructions below:

Right-click the canvas while a layer is selected and while the Brush tool (B) is activated and then click on the button highlighted below:

Then click on “Reset Brushes” from the contextual menu.

Now, that that is done input the following settings for our Brush tool (B):

• Brush size: 800px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 15%
• Flow: 100%
• #: fff7bf

Note: The “#” means the color of the brush. #: fff7bf is somewhat yellowish. To change the brush’s color, do the following:

After clicking the Foreground tool, the Color Picker box would open. Once open, input the following on the # space:

• #: fff7bf

Once you’re done, we can now proceed to painting.

The result:

Next, create another layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) and put “Darken” on the name field. Activate the Brush tool (B) and input the following:

• Brush size: 1500 px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 25%
• Flow: 100%
• #: 000000

Now, let’s start painting:

The result:

Create another layer again (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) and then put “Darken 2” on the name field. Activate the Brush tool (B) and input the following:

• Brush size: 1200px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 25%
• Flow: 100%
• #: 000000

Let’s paint!

The result of that should be similar to this:

Once, you’re done, select all the layers that we’ve created from the last 2 Steps and then press Ctrl/Cmd + G to group them. Grouping layers will avoid confusion in the later steps of the tutorial. Rename this group to “Background”. To rename a group, simply double-click on the words “Group” on the layer window to activate the text box. Once the text box has been activated, you may now rename it.

Step 3: Create the Floating House

In this layer, we will be creating the Floating house on top of this vast field. To start, let’s open the stock image: 1293783_39442557. Once open, activate the Magnetic Lasso Tool. We will need this to create a selection area around the house. The Magnetic Lasso tool can be found here:

Once you’ve got the tool open, start using the Magnetic Lasso tool around the house shown below:

Once you’ve made the selection area around it, activate the Move tool (V) and drag that house to our canvas.

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