Create a Mysterious Fashion Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

After this step your picture should be similar to the one below.

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Step 10 – Adding the City

Download the photo of the city and drag it into the manipulation. Press Ctrl + T and resize it on proper size. Move it on the same place as you can see on preview picture. Place the layer on the top of all layers and name it CITY.

Add layer mask to the CITY. Grab the Brush Tool (B), pick black color and set the opacity on 100%. Paint over the sky because you want to hide it. You should get something like on the picture below.

To blend it even better change the Blending Mode of CITY on Soft Light. It makes the buildings lighter and creates the impression that they’re in the distance hidden in fog.

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Step 11 – Adjusting the City

The city should be little bit lighter and less saturated. You’ll fix it in this step.

Add new adjustment layer Levels and set the Input Levels on 0; 1,10; 255. Don’t forget to create clipping mask from it.

To lower the saturation add new adjustment layer Hue/Saturation and set the value Saturation on -70.

After this step the city should look like below.

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Step 12 – Adding the Glow

The picture is set up in the time of dawn or twilight. It means that lights in the buildings should be on and that there should be some aura arround the city. You’ll add both in this step.

Let’s begin with lights. Add new layer on the top of all layers and name it e.g. LIGHTS. Grab the Brush Tool, set the Master Diameter on 1 pixel and set the Opacity on 80%. Paint small windowses in the buildings. Below you can see what I mean.

Now let’s add glow around the city. Add new layer on the top of all layers and name it GLOW.

Grab the Brush Tool (B), set the Master Diameter on 300 pixels and lower the Opacity on 25%. Pick white color and paint one big dot over the city.

Add layer mask to the GLOW and hide the bottom part of the glow. You don’t want to have the lighting on the ground because it won’t look realistic.

After this step your work should be similar to the one below.

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Step 13 – Adding the Bush

The bottom right corner is empty which looks unbalanced. You’ll fill it with some bush in this step to make it better looking.

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