Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Beautiful Lonely Fantasy Fairy

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Tutorial goal:


This tutorial will explain how to make a beautiful fairy from a single source image.
We'll go over each step on how to make the feathers, the hat, the background, the grass and the mountains.


End result:
Create a Beautiful Lonely Fantasy Fairy Final Image

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avatar suresh
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Step 1

This is the source image from "Red Berries" contest.
http://www.pxleyes.com/photoshop-contest/4528/red-berries.html.



Step 2

First we create wings from the source image.Cutout the Berries from the source image and use Warp tool (Edit -> Transform -> Warp) to change it like the image below.



Step 3

Now select Smudge tool and set the values below and smudge around the edges of the source.



Step 4

Now color balance the smudged object.



Step 5

Now again use the warp tool and adjust the wing shape and Hue/saturate the image like below .



Step 6

The wings part is over.Now we make a fairy's body.First select berries and transform it and then use the warp tool to adjust the shape.The arrows indicates the direction how to warp the source image.



Step 7

This step explain you how to make fairy's hat from source.



Step 8

Now create fairy's hair.Select the wings image (step 3) and transform it like below.



Step 9

Now goto layer ->New Adjustment Layer -> Hue/saturation or contl + U short cut key and adjust the colors.



Step 10

Use Smudge tool again same value in step 3 to smudge it like the image below.



Step 11

Now create rock.See the details in the image below.



Step 12

Use Filter -> Liquify and adjust it.



Step 13

This step shows you to create the background.



Step 14

This is the other objects create from source image and scratch.



Step 15

Make stars using brush tool.



Step 16

Make Moon using brush tool.



Step 17

This is the final image.Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.Good luck!




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60 Comments

avatar Alan2641
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Nice job on the feathers and hair -- like the effect

(179 days ago)
avatar fahdlynx
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great work... well done

(179 days ago)
avatar Akassa
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Really creative, lovely!

(179 days ago)
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nice high quality

(172 days ago)
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Beautiful result... and well explained.
Thanks

(169 days ago)
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Wonkaga
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Great job. Good way to use one picture to make up another great job.

(168 days ago)
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Guest:

it lovely job. no words to express. just love it

(167 days ago)
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Fantastic....it looks so simply when you explain it in the tutorial, great creative flair !!

(167 days ago)
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ang galing

(167 days ago)
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Holy crap! I mean, I'm not into this style kind of fairy worlds and all, but they way you took something and showed us how to turn it into an amazing scene like that is mindblowing, atleast to me. Well done!

(166 days ago)
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It is so beautiful work

(166 days ago)
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It is a creative work that you have presented.
Very well done.

(166 days ago)
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Guest:

woooow i must admit it you are a genius
no one would think of this technique(i am talking about the wings)nice job

(165 days ago)
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Guest:

i never try yet..but...it was a good effort of design...

(165 days ago)
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I don't believe in god , but now i swear you are one , suresh

(165 days ago)
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Angeli
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Fantastic....

(165 days ago)
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i love it )

(164 days ago)
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Guest:

its 100% great

(164 days ago)
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this is what you call creative, makin a beautiful image from such a limited resource (also turning one image into a completely different one). thanks for the tutorial.

(162 days ago)
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Amazing creativity I really enjoyed this tutorial many thnx. :0)

(162 days ago)
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Guest:

just amazing. One little detail and you made a wonderful image. Also thank for the smudge tool tips. Now I understand it more

(162 days ago)
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Guest:

superb , great , excellent , nowords for u, hope to c more

(160 days ago)
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sooooo nice

(159 days ago)
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Absolutely genius! Extremely original technique to create this =D amazing..it takes lot of patience to finish this piece which I don't have at all xD

(157 days ago)
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Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

(157 days ago)
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very good

(154 days ago)
avatar devangel
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very beautiful, i love this

(153 days ago)
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absolutely mind blowing!!!

(151 days ago)
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Guest:

amazing!
I thought it was an actual picture of a girl. That's so cool!

(147 days ago)
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Guest:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing! It really amazed me how you thought of it....

(144 days ago)
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Wow!!!!!! all from berries. Fantastic imagination

(139 days ago)
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Amazing.

(139 days ago)
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I'll never be able to do that... :S

(137 days ago)
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wow,,,, all stuff are just created in few source,,,,

nice tut. ,.,, =)

(130 days ago)
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http://taodang3.forumotion.net/forum-f11/topic-t33.htm

(124 days ago)
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very very nice photoshop creativity

(124 days ago)
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great work great imagination i hope i have it too !

(124 days ago)
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super creative

(123 days ago)
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this is amazing i would do that fairy

(120 days ago)
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GREAT!

(119 days ago)
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Simply fantastic! you are a genious with great imagination. it appears you can turn any thing into any thing you like. Thanks for opening a new horizon for us.

(119 days ago)
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Amazing!!

(115 days ago)
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Imagination, skill, colors, depth's, explenation, final result... 10/10

(111 days ago)
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awsum dude

(111 days ago)
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Guest:

Thank you very much for this lovely creation. It inspired me and taught me something new: smudging.

(97 days ago)
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goooooooooooooood

(95 days ago)
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Amazing!!

(95 days ago)
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I had nooo idea PS could do all this and have owned it since V5 (have CS2 now and trust me...I will update to CS4 after viewing this site!!). Well I'm definately blown away and feel like I'm still in 3rd grade coloring class :/

(86 days ago)
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excellent !!!!!

(83 days ago)
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Thank... for this tutorial...Beautiful result... and well explained.

(73 days ago)
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Thank... for this tutorial...Beautiful result... and well explained.

(73 days ago)
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superb

(65 days ago)
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i did it came out crap

(57 days ago)
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i know mine did 2

(57 days ago)
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quite a genuine idea of creating such a wonderful image. i like it

(40 days ago)
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nice

(26 days ago)
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omg. who ever thought, red berries can turn into a fairy?

(26 days ago)
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This is AMAZING!!! Thank you so much!

(25 days ago)
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150/100% if it was possible GREAT

(23 days ago)
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very good job

(2 days 8 hr ago)


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