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Home»Photo Effect»The Creation of “Stone Eagle” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
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The Creation of “Stone Eagle” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

By Valentin PetroffApril 3, 20244 Mins Read
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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps to create this “Stone Eagle” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop. We will cover the application of textures and the blending of different objects. We will also go through a number of selection tricks and image adjustments.

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Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Eagle (Registration required)

Rock (Stone)

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1000px * 1000px with black background. Use a light grey brush to paint a spot light in the centre:

Load the stone image into Photoshop, select a piece from it as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection over to our document, set the new layer’s opacity to 60%, and use a soft eraser to fade the following areas as shown below:

De-saturate this layer, then add the following 2 adjustment layers on top:

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect so far:

Step 2

Now load the eagle image into Photoshop and cut the eagle out:

Paste it onto our document, and use a soft eraser to fade the following parts for the eagle:

Sharpen the eagle layer by applying the following Unsharp Mask filter twice:

Add the following adjustment layers as clipping mask to this eagle layer:

Black and White

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

We will now add the stone texture onto the eagle. Firstly load the selection of the eagle layout:

Drag the selection over to the stone image, and select a piece as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection over and cover the eagle as shown below:

Set the layer blending mode to “Hard Light” for this new stone layer, and mask out the following area:

Then, duplicate this stone layer and move them to different part of the canvas, as shown below:

and here is the effect so far:

Step 4

We want to add some flying stone pieces around the eagle to add some dynamics into the image. So select a small piece from the stone texture as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection over, and resize it as shown below:

Apply the following image adjustments:

Black and White

Levels

Apply a slight motion blur to the stone as shown below:

Duplicate this layer a couple of times, and move them to different positions as shown below:

Step 5

We will add some final touches to the image to spice up the effect a little! We will use the brush tool to make this happen.

Firstly use a solid brush to draw a dot as shown below:

Use the liquify filter to warp this dot as shown below:

This will form some liquid effect as shown below:

Use a soft brush to paint a dot on a new layer, then warp it as shown below:

This will form some lighting effect as shown below:

I finally added some colour and cloud effect around the eagle, and this is the final effect I have: (click to enlarge)

Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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Valentin Petroff
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My name is Valentin Petroff and I am a freelance graphic designer specializing in retouching and photo manipulation. As a graphic artist I always try to use maximum of my imagination, to improvise and to experiment with different techniques.

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1 Comment

  1. Joshua on May 24, 2013 12:28 PM

    Really nice tutorial. It was great :) I just found this website like a month ago and i really did a whole bunch of stuff… I really like ur work.

    My biggest problem was the warping of the light but after half an hour i could figure that one out pretty well in my opinion.

    Well after all I have two questions/problems:

    1) How can you mask something out. I could not figure this out. I could do it in another way but still…

    2) In a lot of your tutorials you talk about a “soft eraser” or ” soft brush”, could you explain to me which one do you use or what settings you use, because I have the biggest problems with picking an eraser or brush and it looks all the time really different from the things you use.

    Thats it. And thanks again for your great tutorial and work.

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