Create a “Game of Thones” Inspired Photo Composite

Step 10

. We are ready for the dragon!
Make a new group called “dragon”.
Open the dragon image and copy it in our document (crtl + a, crtl+v, crtl+c). Put in on a new layer. Resize it with the free transforming tool. Hold shift while you throw it smaller with the mouse – so the proportions of the dragons are fixed. Resize it until it fits very well on Dany’s lap (it’s still a baby dragon). The baby dragon makes some shadow, so we paint some in on a layer under the dragon and a soft black brush with low opacity (24%) in screen mode. Also he needs some ambient light to melt him with the scenery. So make a new cliping mask layer above the dragon, call it ambient light and take some sand and sky colors to paint them in soft light mode on the dragon. Also set a bright/contrast adjustment layer on top as clipping mask and increase the contrast of the dragon.

Step 11

We make the last adjustments to our image. So open a new group “adjustments” and place the firework0008 image above the fire. Resize it and on a inverted mask paint in some sparks. Dublicate the layer and by doing the same step again and again cover all of the fire. Set every fire layer to a SmartObject.
Now we make severall ajustment layers. First is a color balance with following settings:
middtones: +12, -5, -7; darktones: +13, +8; +7; lights: +5, -6, +11;
The next is a bright/contrast adjustment layer with 4 bright and 21 contrast. Than we make a selective color adjustment layer with yellow at -68, -15, -8, 0 and red at +35, 0, +1, +11;
Now we make a new layer and take the rectangular selection tool and thorw a rectangle around the edges of the image. Invert the selection with crtl + I and fill it with black color. Set the layer mode to soft light and with a gaussian blure filter smooth the edges.

Step 12

The last step is making a new group and a new layer, select all groups together, hold alt and shift+crtl+e and place everything on one layer. Convert it to a SmartObject and use a Gaussian Blure filter with 2,5 px. Now paint with a soft black brush at the smartfilter mask over Dany, her dragon and the fire and with lower opacity also at the front of the image. Dublicate the layer and delet the Gaussian Blure Filter. Apply an High Pass filter with 1 px on it. Set the filter mode to screen and invert it’s mask. Now paint with a soft white brush over Dany, dragon and fire to apply the filter effet on them. The last step is to add some final lightning with white and black brush on a soft mode layer. Now we are done!

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