Make a Story Book Come to Life in Photoshop

Use the following settings for the Dodge tool (O).

• Brush size: 150 px
• Range: Midtones
• Exposure: 25%

Use the Dodge tool (O) on the area shown on the image below:

Next, activate the Eraser tool (E) once again because we’re going to make the clock look like it really is rooted on the grass. We’re going to change the shape of our brush to the shape of grass. To do that, make sure the Eraser tool is activated and then right click on the image to bring out the Eraser menu. When the menu shows, click on the scroll bar located on the side of the menu and choose the brush as seen on the image below:

Take note that this brush would appear only if the brushes loaded are the default brushes, but if that’s not the case, we would need to revert it back to the default ones – to do that click on the button shown on the image below to bring up the advanced menu.

After pressing that button a menu will pop-up.

Choose Reset brushes from that menu.

Now we’re ready, let’s use the following settings for the Eraser tool (E):

• Brush size: default size of the grass brush (112)
• Hardness: default size of the grass brush (100%)
• Opacity: 100%
• Flow: 100%

The result should be similar to this. After that, group all the layers that we’ve created on this step and name it object.

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Step 5 – Create a Vignette

In this step, we will learn how to create a vignette which enhances the focus on the center of the image. To start off, go to the Menu bar and click on File > New and use the same settings we used to create our canvas. (Refer to Step 1). But take note, the background contents should be white. Once it has been created, go to Filter > Distort > Lens Correction. Find the tab Vignette and use these settings:

• Vignette amount: -100
• Midpoint: +50

Now that that’s done drag the vignette to our canvas using the Move tool (V) and put it on top of all the layers that we’ve created, and then set the following:

• Blending mode: Soft light
• Opacity to 40%

After that click on the vignette layer that we’ve just created and then duplicate it (Ctrl/Cmd + J). This time set the following values:

• Blending mode: Multiply
• Opacity: 25%

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Step 6 – Retouch the image

What we are going to do here is that we would be enhancing the look and feel of our image. To start, let’s create a Solid Color adjustment layer. To do that, click on the button on the Layer window as shown on the image below:

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