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Snow Queen
- By Anastacia Sholik
- Published 11/21/2006
- Photo Effects
- Unrated
Erase the diamond's background (Polygonal Lasso Tool) and increase the stone's contrast (Curves). Give it a blue nuance also (Photo Filter)
Copy now many times this layer and place the diamonds on the “hair's” surface, changing their size with Edit – Free Transform (ctrl+t)
Add the shadows by copying the stones' layer and make them of black color: Image – Adjustments – Brightness/Contrast
Place the indicated layer lower than the basic stones' layer and blur it out with Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur.
Insert now the butterfly picture.
Separate it also from its background and make the color lighter, applying Curves.
Cut out one wing and turn it around with Free Transform
option. Place it on the girl's head. Copy this layer and blur it out a little this copy (Gaussian Blur)
Change the blurred layer's type on Multiply and merge down both layers representing the butterfly's wing (Merge Down).
Open in a new window the ornaments' texture.
Decolorize it and increase the brightness and the contrast (Curves).
Pass to the Channels window, choosing Red (ctrl+1), applying next command Load Channel as Selection.
Choose then again RGB, cut out the ornament (Cut) and insert it on a new layer, above the girl's layer. Get back to the processed picture and group these layers (the ornament must not be situated outside the girl's contours), applying Layer – Create Clipping Mask (ctrl+g). Change the layer's type on Color Burn.
Copy now many times this layer and place the diamonds on the “hair's” surface, changing their size with Edit – Free Transform (ctrl+t)
Add the shadows by copying the stones' layer and make them of black color: Image – Adjustments – Brightness/Contrast
Place the indicated layer lower than the basic stones' layer and blur it out with Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur.
Insert now the butterfly picture.
Separate it also from its background and make the color lighter, applying Curves.
Cut out one wing and turn it around with Free Transform
Change the blurred layer's type on Multiply and merge down both layers representing the butterfly's wing (Merge Down).
Open in a new window the ornaments' texture.
Decolorize it and increase the brightness and the contrast (Curves).
Pass to the Channels window, choosing Red (ctrl+1), applying next command Load Channel as Selection.
Choose then again RGB, cut out the ornament (Cut) and insert it on a new layer, above the girl's layer. Get back to the processed picture and group these layers (the ornament must not be situated outside the girl's contours), applying Layer – Create Clipping Mask (ctrl+g). Change the layer's type on Color Burn.
