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Step 34

Select Right Horse layer and press ctrl+J to make a duplicate. Press ctrl+shift+] to move this layer on top of all other layers. Change the layer blend mode to Soft Light and lower the opacity to 70%.

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Step 35

Open file ” Cracked earth texture ” and press ctrl+A to select all. Press ctrl+C to copy. Go back to our document and press ctrl+V to paste it. Resize it like shown below and press Enter.

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Step 36

Press ctrl+I to invert and change blend mode to Overlay and lower opacity to 30%. Add a layer mask and press ctrl+I to make the mask black. Remember, in a layer mask white reveals, black conceals. Choose a round soft brush and choose white as our foreground color. Brush gently in the areas shown below.

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Step 37

Select Right Horse layer and press ctrl+J to make a duplicate. Press ctrl+shift+] to move this layer on top of all other layers. Apply Filter > Stylize > Find Edges . Press ctrl+I to invert and change the layer blend mode to Linear Dodge. Add a layer mask and brush gently with black over the areas shown below. We don’t want any thick edges.

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Step 38

Using Edit > Preset manager import ” Frost texture brushes”. Make a new layer and set it’s blend mode to overlay. Choose brush “painting 12″ and choose a size of 500 px. Choose white as foreground color and brush a couple of times. Choose brush ” painting 8 ” and brush a couple of times. Ctrl + click Right horse layer to select it’s opaque pixels then add a layer mask to our current layer. This way our brush strokes will only apply to the horse only. Lower the layer opacity to 70%.

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Make a new layer. Choose brush ” painting 10 ” and set size to 15 px. Brush carefully along the exterior lines of our horse to give him a more “wintery” look. Lower the layer opacity to 80 %. Avoid brushing the lower parts of the body because the heat from below will melt those snowflakes.

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Step 40

Now let’s make some blue — ice eyes. Alt+click the eyeball icon of the layer “Backround”. This way we turn off the visibility of all layers except ” Background ” layer. Use the pen tool to draw around the eyes and press ctrl+Enter to transform into selection.

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2 responses to “Create a Spectacular Space Scene in Photoshop”

  1. Chris wargo Avatar
    Chris wargo

    what are the settings for the fire horse color balance?

  2. Carlos Cuesta Sánchez Avatar
    Carlos Cuesta Sánchez

    What are the settings used on color balance layer?

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