Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

Gang, creating photo manipulation of wedding images is getting more and more popular. And for a good reason too. Wedding photos make great polygon for Photoshop exhibitions and I made one too 🙂

So, if you are interested to learn about wedding photo manipulation, here is a little tutorial!

Ingredients:

1. Here’s my choice for today’s Wedding Photo Manipulation.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

Once got our ingredients ready, together with a cup coffee, let’s dive into it.

1. Since I had the image in RAW format, I tweaked it during the import

– in Lightroom I used Color Creative CP2 preset.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

If you don’t use Lightroom, here are the color preferences for RAW in Photoshop:

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

2. Now apply same color preferences for the two background images

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

3. Open the image with the trees. This will be the main background.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

4. Place an image with the clouds above the background image and use the “Hard Light” layer option, with 57% Opacity.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

5. And now, let’s clean it up a bit.

  1. Add layer mask on the image with the clouds.
  2. Draw a rectangle in the “mask area”.
  3. Fill the rectangle with a gradient: from black to none (empty). The grass is hidden and the clouds will fit well in the scene.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

6. Let’s copy the main background image (with the trees) using “Multiply” layer option, Opacity is at 68%

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

7. Lighten the grass in the front of the scene, because we want to emphasize the front. Add a layer mask, and again: draw a rectangle and fill it with a gradient: from black to none (empty)

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

8. Open the image with the bride and using the Quick Mask option “color” erase the background. Simply turn off Quick Mask when you are done and invert the selection area then erase it.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

9. Now add a bride in the scene, just drag and drop. Place it under the tree and using Burn Tool darken the areas that will be in the shadow.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

10. Using the Burn Tool darken the grass – create the shadow behind the bride, drawing shadow on the main background image.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

11. Now, let’s add the moon. Open the moon file and using Elliptical Marquee Tool and “Shift” key draw a circled selection. Invert the selection and cut out the moon.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

12. Color the moon with blue using Hue/Saturation.
First, set the foreground color.
Open Image – Adjustment – Hue/Saturation and check the Colorize option. Click OK, it’s done. The moon is blue.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

13. Now create a layer set and change the set option into “Color Dodge”. Drag and drop the moon image into that layer set.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

14. Now, copy the background with the trees as many times as you want to achieve the night feeling in the scene. I copied it four times. Merge all 5 layers (background images with the trees).

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

15. Now use the Dodge Tool, and lighten the image below the moon creating the moonlight effect.

Set up the Dodge Tool as shown.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

16. Create a new layer in the layer set with “Color Dodge” style. Add some Hearts brushes (various sizes) and apply Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur. Create another layer and repeat the same, but use less Gaussian Blur in order to create 3D effect. (How to install and use Hearts Photoshop brushes – design an unique wedding invitation – video tutorial MP4)

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

17. Also use simple brush, with 0% Hardness and approx 30 px size.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

18. I added a sleeping cat too. The process is the same as for the bride.

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

19. Another cat (same my Mr. Alphons) is added behind the tree trunk. Of, course, he is not behind the tree but dark bark was good to hide his body…

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

And here is out final result! Voila!

My cousin loved it, I hope you like it too!

Wedding Photo Manipulation, Tutorial

In case you liked the Hearts Photoshop brushes touch, these are available in my Photoshop brushes store with commercial license so you can create commercial projects with them.

And when it comes to printing of the finished artwork, you might want to consider canvas prints. This kind of art might look really cool on canvas.

That’s all folks! Talk soon!
Silvia

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