In this tutorial, I will show you the process of the creating this “Sail into the Unknown” photo manipulation digital art in Photoshop. Have a try!
This tutorial would be perfect if you wish to practice various layer blending modes in Photoshop.
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OK Let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:
- Ocean By Esmeralda-stock
- Mountain By Lyfiar
- Boat
- Female Violinist By thinck
- City By Ealucids-Photos
- Planet
- Fire Sparks
Step 1
Create a new document sized 1440px * 800px with black background. Load the Ocean stock photo into Photoshop, select a portion of it, copy & paste the selection to our document. Use the “Perspective” option in the Free Transform tool to add some perspective to this new ocean layer as shown below:
Use a soft eraser, fade the edges of the ocean as shown below:
Apply the following image adjustments to this ocean layer:
Black and White
Levels
and here is the effect so far:
Step 2
Load the Mountain stock photo into Photoshop, select a portion and paste it onto our document:
Use a soft eraser to fade the bottom part as shown below:
Black & White
and here is the effect so far:
Step 3
Load the Boat stock photo in, cut out the boat and paste it to the following position:
Apply the following Black and White image adjustment to this boat layer:
Use a cloud brush or cloud filter, add some mist/cloud effect around the canvas:
Step 4
Step 5
Load the city stock into Photoshop, select a portion and paste it onto our document, cover the mountain as shown below:
Change the layer blend mode to “Lighten”:
Eraser some parts of the city layer and you will have a scattered light effect around the mountain:
Step 6
Add the planet to our document as shown below and change the layer blend mode to “Lighten” (I used the planet-6 from the collection):
Apply the following Black and White adjustment to it:
and here is the effect so far:
Step 7
Add some fire sparks from the stock image we download – use “Warp” option from the free transform tool, add some warping effect to the spark:
You will need to set the blend mode of this fire layer to “Screen”:
Repeat the above step and add more fire effect around the canvas:
Step 8
We’re almost done! For final touches, we can flatten the layers and duplicate the background layer, apply the following “Accented Edges” filter to it:
Set its layer blending mode to “Hard Light”:
This will give the image as artistic feel. If you feel the filter is too much for your liking, you can use a soft eraser and remove parts of this new layer:
I further applied some colour effect to this image, and this is the final result (click to enlarge):