Make a Story Book Come to Life in Photoshop

The result should be similar to this:

After that, we’ll have to erase some edges of the road to make it blend with the grass. Activate the Eraser tool (E) and input the following settings:

• Brush size: 100 px
• Hardness: 100%
• Opacity: 100%
• Flow: 100%

Use the following zoom setting on the Navigator window:

• 100%

See image below for instructions:

Next, let’s darken the edges of the road; activate the Burn tool (O) and input the following settings:

• Brush size: 200 px
• Hardness: 0%
• Range: Midtones
• Exposure: 25%

Apply the Burn tool on the region indicated on the image below:

Next let’s create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) and name it light and position it above all the layers. We’re going to paint some light on the part of the book where the light shines. Activate the Brush tool (B) and input the following values:

• Brush size: 1000 px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 15%
• Flow: 100%

Now we would also change the Brush’s color, to do that, click on the Foreground Color box to activate the Color Picker menu.

We’re now ready to brush in some yellow light on the image. To proceed, follow the instructions below. After that, select all the layers that we just did and press Ctrl/Cmd + G to group them. Rename the group now to grass.

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Step 5 – Add the street clock

What we are going to do here is that we would be adding our street clock. To do that, let’s open the Street Clock stock image. You’d notice that this image is saved in the PSD format, which means we can just use the Move tool (V) to drag the street clock to our canvas without cutting it from its background.

After you’ve moved it to our canvas, change the layer’s name to street clock and then change its Brightness/Contrast to make it blend with the rest of the images. First, make sure that the Street clock image is selected and then click on Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast and then apply the following settings:

• Brightness: 5
• Contrast: -15

Next, let’s transform the image and make it smaller. See image below:

After that, let’s create a new layer and rename it as clock shadow. Put this layer under the Street Clock layer because we’re going to create the clock’s shadow.

Activate the Brush tool (B) and input the following settings:

• Brush size: 175 px
• Hardness: 0%
• Opacity: 15%
• Flow: 100%

Next, let’s brighten the clock by using the Dodge tool (O).

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