If
you’re looking to create a really nice photo manipulation, often you
will have to combine several photos and apply a few effects to get your
desired look. In today’s tutorial I decided to combine a few photos that
I took while I was traveling to create a devastating tornado consuming
everything in its path. Okay, let’s get started!
Introduction
To
create images like this, I recommend you to gain a bit of knowledge of
perspective, focal point and vanishing point etc. It helps a lot while
bringing together various images into one final plate. Okay, let’s get
started.
Step 1
First, create a new document in
Photoshop and name it tornado. Create a layer and fill it with some
color and come up with a rough sketch of your composition.
Step 2
Open up your images in Photoshop. Use the upper image for the sky and the lower one for the land.
Step 3
With the help of the Lasso tool and a 20 px feather cut out the sky and paste it into your tornado document.
Step 4
Now that the sky is ready, our next job is to make the sky look cloudy.
Step 5
Make some adjustments the image’s Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation.
Step 6
Use the clone stamp tool to help spread out the sky.
Step 7
Use the clone stamp tool to change the shade of the clouds.
Step 8
Open
the second image and select some portions of the grass and vegetation
using the Lasso tool (5 px feather). I used multiple selections of the
ground for my image.
Step 9
Now
paste the vegetation fragments of my image then bring them together.
Use the lasso tool to spread the vegetation across your canvas.
Step 10
Start selecting portions of the sky and play around with the brightness and contrast just to give it some variation.
Step 11
Use the same technique with other parts of the image as per my sketch and change the shade of the clouds in those areas.
Step 12
At this point it’s time to start laying out the tornado.
Step 13
Use the clone stamp tool to spread the tornado out in the selected area of the drawing.
Step 14
Repeat the same process for the other selected areas.
Step 15
The dust can be created by cloning portions of the sky and by changing its shade.
Step 16
Use the clone stamp tool to create a smooth transition between the various elements in the composition.
Step 17
To
enhance our image we now need to create a new adjustment layer with a
black to transparent gradient. Set the blending mode of this later to
soft light. The purpose of this step is to enhance our image so that the
upper edges look darker and that the viewer’s focus is directed to the
center. Repeat this step in one more layer if you want more variation in
shading.
Step 18
Now
it is time to shade the outer areas of the composition. Do this by
drawing a rectangle with the rectangular marquee tool (with 0 px
feather) in a new layer and fill it with black color. Use the lasso tool
to cut the layer as shown. After this, set the layer’s blending mode to
‘soft light’. The purpose of this step is to darken some areas of the
image to shift the focus towards the center.
Step 19
Now
let’s play around with some color variations. Make sure that, you do it
in adjustment layers so that if you don’t like it you can just delete
the layer.
Conclusion
That’s it. I hope that this tutorial helped you learn a little about photo manipulation techniques. Good luck!
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