Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone – now. In this Tutorial you can learn the technique of how to make a realistic underwater scene, just follow the steps.

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Step 1

Go to File > Open and select Man photo stock.

Step 2

Open another photo Ocean and use Rectangular Marquee Tool(M). With the Rectangular Marquee tool, drag over the area you want to select. Hold down Shift as you drag to constrain the marquee to(release the mouse button before you release Shift to keep the selection shape constrained).

Step 3

After the selection area has been created, simply copy (Ctrl / Cmd + C) and Paste (Ctrl / Cmd + V) it to our work canvas. Then position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and resterize like image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to resterize al sides together.

Step 4

Now, create a layer mask that we can delete one part of the image. Use Brush Tool (B) Soft Round with foreground color black and start painting as in the picture below.

Step 5

Add Adjustment Layer “Hue/Saturation”

Step 6

Add Adjustment Layer “Levels”

Step 7

Next, go to File >Open and open Ocean. Use Rectangular Marquee Tool(M). With the Rectangular Marquee tool, drag over the area you want to select. Hold down Shift as you drag to constrain the marquee to(release the mouse button before you release Shift to keep the selection shape constrained).
After the selection area has been created, simply copy (Ctrl / Cmd + C) and Paste (Ctrl / Cmd + V) it to our work canvas. Then position the image with the transform tool (Ctrl / Cmd + T). Hold Alt + Shift and resterize like image below. In Photoshop CC only hold Alt to resterize al sides together.
Now open a Brush Tool(B) Soft Round and you can change the size. Foreground color set to black. Create layer mask and start painting.

Step 8

Add Adjustment Layer “Hue/Saturation”

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2 responses to “How to Create a Water & Fire Portrait Photo Manipulation in Photoshop”

  1. Linda A Perdue Avatar
    Linda A Perdue

    I personally love that this is step by step (and not a video). Going to try this idea and see how it all works out for me – looks interesting!

  2. Purplemusica Avatar
    Purplemusica

    Hello, please do you guys have a video?

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