When the Color Balance box opens, input the following:

  • Brightness: 50
  • Contrast: -25
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Now create a Curves adjustment layer which can be found by pressing on the Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button shown on the layer window:

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The result should be similar to this:

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Now once again create a Brightness/Contrast layer which can be found by pressing on the Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button shown on the layer window:

When the Color Balance box opens, input the following:

  • Brightness: -15
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The result should be similar to this:

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Step 4: Fix snail in canvas

First off, let’s open the Wots up world stock in Photoshop. We will be using the snail from this stock image so we will need to transfer it to our main canvas.

Click the Wots up world and press P to activate pen tool and then make a selection around the snail and then click V to activate the Move Tool. Left-click the image and drag the image to the main canvas and change layer name to “Snail”.

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The result should be similar to this:

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Next, activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd +T), then while the “Snail” layer is selected and then resize it as shown below:

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The result should be similar to this:

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Now time to give some retouch to the snail.Activate burn tool and use it on the snail as shown below:

  • Brush size: 300px
  • Range: Midtones
  • Exposure: 25
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The result should be similar to this:

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Step 5: Fix Girl in canvas

First off, let’s open the “Sorrow 15” stock in Photoshop. We will be using the girl from this stock image so we will need to transfer it to our main canvas.

Click the “Sorrow 15” and press P to activate pen tool and then make a selection around the girl and then click V to activate the Move Tool. Left-click the image and drag the image to the main canvas and change layer name to “girl”.

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The result should be similar to this:

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Now activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) while the “Girl” layer is selected and Right click on girl image and Flip Horizontal :

The result should be similar to this:

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Once again activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd + T) while the “girl” layer is selected and then resize it as shown below:

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The result should be similar to this:

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Now create a Hue/Saturation layer which can be found by pressing on the Create New Fill/Adjustment layer button shown on the layer window: When the Hue/Saturation box opens, input the following: Saturation: -25

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8 responses to “Create a Surreal Scene with a Cool Snail that Flies”

  1. CJ Avatar
    CJ

    Half the links don’t work.

  2. Hugevaa Jina Avatar
    Hugevaa Jina

    What a shitty tutorial. No mention of why any of the steps are done. Just bullshit “input these values”. Thanks for nothing asshole.

  3. Βασιλική Avatar
    Βασιλική

    Nice and useful! Well done, thank you.

    1. Βασιλική Avatar
      Βασιλική

      Sorry , I was thinking in Greek … i meant helpful …

  4. Andranik Avatar
    Andranik

    There are broken links in photos( and there is no PSD file of the tutorial( can you, please, add?

  5. Arsalan Avatar
    Arsalan

    Hello,
    there are some broken links, can u fix please?!

  6. Lily Avatar
    Lily

    theres a couple of broken links :(

  7. lyongde Avatar
    lyongde

    good job,thanks.

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