Mysterious Deer in Night Photoshop Manipulation

Jan 18, 2025

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Milos Karanovic

Open Blending Options and move left Underlying layer slider to right (8).

Step 20

Now, select Moon layer and hold Ctrl/Cmd + click craete new layer icon . Now we created new layer below Moon layer. Use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color black and paint antlers, change Opacity to 25%. We added a little shadow to the antlers to make it look more realistic.

Step 21

Next, Open Fire photo stock and use Rectangular Marquee Tool(M). With the Rectangular Marquee tool, drag over the area you want to select. Hold down Shift as you drag to constrain the marquee to(release the mouse button before you release Shift to keep the selection shape constrained). After the selection area has been created, simply copy (Ctrl / Cmd + C) and Paste (Ctrl / Cmd + V) it to our work canvas. Then position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and resterize like image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to resterize al sides together.

Step 22

Now, make a layers mask and use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground color black and paint the lower part of the fire to remove the line. Blend mode change to Screen . Look at the picture below.

Add Adjustment Layer “Hue/Saturation”

Step 22

We will now make 11 more copies of the fire and adjustment layer (Ctrl/Cmd + J) and position them on the horns. We will use the Transform Tool(Ctr/Cmd + T) to reduce and increase the size and to rotate the fire. Hold shift and select the first and last fire layer and press left mouse click, then press Ctrl/Cmd + G to merge all in group.

Step 23

Create a new layer then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round with foreground silver #bddaed and paint the antlers. Change the blend mode from Normal to Multiply with Opacity 60%.

Step 24

In this step we will change the eye color. First create a new layer and use Brush Tool(B) with Soft Round and foreground color white and start paint ing the eyes. Then Right click on layer and Blending Options.

Outer Glow

2. Drop Shadow

Step 25

Next, create a new layer and set foreground color blue #558aec. Then use Brush Tool(B) Soft Round and paint the left part of the deer’s body. Change the Blend mode to SoftLight with Opacity 60%.

3 responses to “Mysterious Deer in Night Photoshop Manipulation”

ghasanwsd wsd

August 5, 2020

please enplane how did u move the moon behind the deep horns this step its not clear when i do it i keep the moon in the front

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Jim White

July 27, 2020

Great technical work, but PS has carried us to the unreal, to the detriment of the art of photography. Give me natural images. I’m ok with color enhancement, a few added clouds, etc, but creating this bizarre stuff and calling it art cheapens photography, and takes us backward to the days when ours was not seen as a legitimate form of art. Sell things like this on street corners out of the back of a panel truck along with Elvis paintings.

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1. John H
  
  August 7, 2020
  
  You can have as much fun or be as conservative as you like. You don’t have to do any of these types of manipulations if you don’t want, but sometimes it’s fun to just play around with the capabilities of PS. No one is suggesting that you sell something like this as a “real” image, but good grief lighten up. If one is a true purist, as you seem to be then they shouldn’t be using any post processing nor should they be using any auto settings on their camera. In fact they shouldn’t even be using a digital camera since it has the ability to improve a shot without the shooter’s input. Total manual on film is where you seem to be most comfortable; not eve sure why you bother looking at this type of article.