A Work in Progress: Heavenly



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Heavenly
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Original image


step 1 of 9

made a rough cutout of the lady picture.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 1

step 2 of 9

Hair cutout is difficult, so I used a different layer to avoid the cutout. I went to levels and made background areas pure white. After I changed the layer effect to multiply to get the cutout feel here.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 2

step 3 of 9

Now I fixed both the layers in the blue background.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 3

step 4 of 9

Added another layer and used cloud filter here.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 4

step 5 of 9

I gave luminosity to the layer to get a bluish tone. After that I darkened some areas using burn tool & lightened some areas with dodge tool.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 5

step 6 of 9

I added some light beams. Using lasso tool I created a selection and filled white in a new layer. Then I blurred the layer, and erased the bottom edges, and changed the layer effect to overlay.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 6

step 7 of 9

Using brush (smoke brush downloaded from deviantart.com) I created the smoke.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 7

step 8 of 9

The same technique I used in the step 7, I used here also.

Creation of Heavenly: Step 8

step 9 of 9

Added some stars(brushes) in different sizes to create a heavenly mood. After all these I adde an adjustment layer on the top of all other layers and used channel mixer to get a differnt blueish green tone.
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Creation of Heavenly: Step 9

Final result

Creation of Heavenly: Final Result

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