Not a problem Lois. The bottom image is a shot of the trees in fog converted to B&W this was then copy pasted into a new file and the canvas size altered to allow for the top (from the top menu Image>Canvas Size). The duplicate of the original was moved to the top position and blurred and whole image flattened and saved as a copy. The copy was then opened in Painter and I played around with various tools there to soften the hard edge where to two tree images joined this was then re-opened in P’shop. Now the figure, this is a brush I created which I then duplicated a number of times, applied various blends to, each of these different layers was then masked in different ways to allow these blends to be exposed or hidden. To make a brush is actually pretty easy: take a B&W image play around with it using levels to make it fairly contrasty, seperate out that section you want use as your brush (using masks, lasso or whatever) create a new layer and fill it with white. Drag the white layer so it below the cut out B&W then flatten now to turn it into a brush go to the top menu Edit>Define Brush Preset, name it and click ok. That’s it your brush is now ready for use. Back to Sonata, the original B&W tree image was re-opened and pasted into the working file, scaled and moved into it’s position. Then using Levels and Hue-Saturation the colour altered and a layer blend applied. To finish off I re-opened the Painter file (always handy to have working files saved at various stages e.g working file1, working file 2 etc) and the doodle/scribble marks done. Painter allows you to save as layered PSD files which then means you can open these and cut or copy then paste individual layers into any other P’shop file. Well that, in a very summarised form is it Lois. There was a number of other steps but that is the essence of it. Hope it helps.
midzing
gorgeous work Hugh,,, well done
Hugh Waller replied
Thank you Wendy and for the favourite.
Lois Romer
Hugh, wow oh wow this is fantastic.
Hugh Waller replied
Thanks very much Lois.
Sensiworld
Beautiful work !
Hugh Waller replied
Thank you Sylvia.
Lois Romer
now hand over all your secrets to this great image or i’ll ....um ah opppps. sorry kidding
Hugh Waller replied
Not a problem Lois. The bottom image is a shot of the trees in fog converted to B&W this was then copy pasted into a new file and the canvas size altered to allow for the top (from the top menu Image>Canvas Size). The duplicate of the original was moved to the top position and blurred and whole image flattened and saved as a copy. The copy was then opened in Painter and I played around with various tools there to soften the hard edge where to two tree images joined this was then re-opened in P’shop. Now the figure, this is a brush I created which I then duplicated a number of times, applied various blends to, each of these different layers was then masked in different ways to allow these blends to be exposed or hidden. To make a brush is actually pretty easy: take a B&W image play around with it using levels to make it fairly contrasty, seperate out that section you want use as your brush (using masks, lasso or whatever) create a new layer and fill it with white. Drag the white layer so it below the cut out B&W then flatten now to turn it into a brush go to the top menu Edit>Define Brush Preset, name it and click ok. That’s it your brush is now ready for use.
Back to Sonata, the original B&W tree image was re-opened and pasted into the working file, scaled and moved into it’s position. Then using Levels and Hue-Saturation the colour altered and a layer blend applied. To finish off I re-opened the Painter file (always handy to have working files saved at various stages e.g working file1, working file 2 etc) and the doodle/scribble marks done. Painter allows you to save as layered PSD files which then means you can open these and cut or copy then paste individual layers into any other P’shop file.
Well that, in a very summarised form is it Lois. There was a number of other steps but that is the essence of it. Hope it helps.
Lois Romer
haha thanks, i went and did my first photoshop 101 class last night so i understand about a quater of what you just said.
Hugh Waller replied
Stick with it, you’ll be right. Get that tablet out too by the way.
shanemcgowan
Wonderfully captured scene :)
Hugh Waller replied
Thank you Shane.
MarkStone
This is great Hugh. Love the way you have merged the figure with the landscape very subtly.
Hugh Waller replied
Thanks Mark.
Explosive
beautifully soft! so unique!
Hugh Waller replied
Thank you.