Sand Story Photo Effect

I'll show you how to make a model's coiffure look more lively, to tone the picture and I'll show you also one method of styling the picture and make it look older.

Open the picture of an uninhabited beach: File ? Open (ctrl+o)



Copy the layer just to be easier to work with it: Layer ? Duplicate Layer (ctrl+j). Erase the previous layer. Increase the picture's highness, applying the Crop Tool. Mark out after that a sky's part with Rectangular Marquee Tool and stretch it out, making use of next command: Edit ? Free Transform (ctrl+t).



Using the Gradient Tool, dark out the upper part of the sky with the necessary color.



Apply the next selection too: Image ? Apply Image.



Open in a new window the picture of girl on her entire stature: (ctrl+o).



Mark it out with Rectangular Marquee Tool and make a copy of it: Edit ? Copy (ctrl+c). Get back to the processed picture and insert it on a new layer: Edit ? Paste (ctrl+v). After that you should mark the background along her contours with Polygonal Lasso Tool and erase it with the Delete button on the keyboard. Correct the girl's stature, selecting Edit ? Free Transform (ctrl+t).



Make the girl's image's edges look less sharpen. It's possible to do that by copying the girl's layer (ctrl+j). Blur out the lowest layer making use of the next filter: Filter ? Blur ? Gaussian Blur. Combine both layers: Layer ? Merge Down (ctrl+e).



Choose after that the Clone Stamp Tool of 1 px and make several copies of the girl's hair The mentioned instrument must be used as a brush to draw a little the curled hair.



Blur a little the hair, using the Blur Tool with the following adjustments.



Copy one more time the girl's layer (ctrl+j). Blur it out (Gaussian Blur with the same parameters) and change the layer's type on Soft Light. Combine both these layers (ctrl+e).



Use next the Brush Tool to picture on the layer under the girl, her shadow. Blur out the layer with Gaussian Blur and minimize the layer's Opacity till 70%.