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Preparations:
We will be using 3 images here. Lady in white dress, snowy mountains and clouds.
You need to install these brushes: Falln_BrushesFeathersSet1 (download)
FallnBrushesAngelWings (download)
All rights of these resources belong to their respective owners.
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Step 1 – Setting Up Environment:
Create a new document of 750×550 pixels.
Open up the snowy mountains and remove the sky along the rocky edges with a Soft Brush tool (size around 20pts).
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Step 2 – Adding Clouds:
Insert the image of clouds below the layer of mountains.
Go to Edit > Free Transform and scale the clouds proportionally till it fits the document nicely.
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Step 3 – Adjusting Levels:
Create a new Levels Adjustment Layer.
Insert the values: 7,1.38,255. This will brighten the environment and more details are shown.
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Step 4 – Placing the Subject:
Crop the lady out using Pen tool. Place her at the position shown in the diagram.
Use the Soft Brush tool with color #000000, paint some shadow around bottom of the dress.
I will provide more methods to extract a subject away from its background in my next post.
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Step 5 – Adding the Wings:
Load Brushes > FallnBrushesAngelWings and select FallnBrushesAngelWings12 with 400pts.
Create a new layer and name it as wings. Choose #FFFFFF as your foreground color and paint in the angel wings.
Go to Edit > Free Transform to distort the left side of the wings upwards slightly.
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Step 6 – Enhancing the Details:
As the wings seem to be transparent, I duplicated another layer of wings and set its mode to Hard Light.
Use the Soft Brush tool with color #000000 and opacity 50%, paint some shadow around the sides of lady’s arms.
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Step 7 – Rays of Light:
Create a new layer and call it as light rays. Select Soft Brush tool with size 100pt and color #FFFFFF. Set its opacity to 40% and start drawing vertical lines across the layer.
Edit > Free Transform to distort the rays in a way that the light source comes from the top-left.
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Step 8 – Adding the Feathers:
Load Brushes > Falln_BrushesFeathersSet1 and select Falln-BrushesFeather4.
With several different sizes, paint some feathers around the document. Right-click on the feathers layer and select Blending Options. Check on Outer Glow and set Blend Mode: Linear Dodge (Add), Opacity: 100%, Color: #FFFFFF, Size: 10px.
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Step 9 – Magical Dust:
Select the Soft Brush tool with size 3pt and color #FFFFFF. Go to Brush Properties and check on Scattering. Set Scatter to 1000%.
Create a new layer and call it as glowing dust. Start drawing several lines of scattered dots around the lady subject. Right-click the layer and select Blending Options. Check on Outer Glow and set Blend Mode: Linear Dodge (Add), Opacity: 100%, Color: #FFFFFF, Size: 10px.
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Step 10 – Adjusting the Colors:
Create a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer at the topmost. Set Hue:-17, Saturation: -38, Lightness: 0.
On top of Hue/Saturation, create another Curves adjustment layer. Select the Blue channel and pull the center of the curve upwards. This is to add a blue tone effect seen in most fantasy scenes.
That’s all! Click here to view the final image.
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I am Johnson Koh, an Art Director based in Singapore. Founded 10Steps.SG with the purpose to share my experiments and interesting design news. Connect with me on LinkedIn. 
67 Comments | Write a Comment
The reason I want to learn this correctly is that my sister gave birth to her newborn baby at 8 1/2 months and she was stillborn.
yes please can we get the stock images of this?
Where can i download the stock images??? only the brushes are available… thanks!.. i want to try it but i cannot find where’s the stock images…
I am so thankful to have stumbled upon this tutorial, 100% by accident; don’t even know how exactly.
Yesterday when I found this specific tutorial I was very interested in learning how to add the sun rays and Magical Dust and I was actually able to do it through CS4, but for some reason today on an actual photo I wanted to add this too (last nights was just practice) I wasn’t able to do anything right which is so frustrating for me.
I have a CS4 Manaul Book for a lot of creations I work on but still am a newbie to Photoshop. I don’t understand what exactly a ’soft’ brush is defined as. And today when picking a brush (just any since I couldn’t remember what I played with yesterday) it didn’t automatically give me a color choice, but thankfully it was still on white. It also doesn’t show me where to pick my 100pt size, but it does show the slide with a ‘px Master Diameter’.
I did what I could even though it didn’t all match and went forward to the magic dust. Again I couldn’t find anything that read ‘Brush Properties’ but found what I thing was it because it had boxes to check, one of which being ’scatter’, but then it there was nothing that read a percentage amount for me to set at 1000%.
I am still determined to figure this out because I did it just yesterday and it was great; loved the outcome but that was all on a practice portrait of something silly, not something I actually want to apply the sunrays and magic dust too. Can anybody help me understand what I’m doing wrong?? The reason I want to learn this correctly is that my sister gave birth to her newborn baby at 8 1/2 months and she was stillborn. She has one of two photos of her holding her daughter and I want to make something special with the photo by adding the sunrays on her baby with the ‘fairy/magic’ dust directly shining on her lost little girl and then of course I plan on adding a special poem to the final portrait. Please get in touch with me on what exactly I’m doing wrong…I just don’t understand especially since last night I did it so nicely (not perfect, but right) and now today I can’t do any of it. And, no, I didn’t save the photo from the ‘practice’ image I worked on yesterday….
Bummed and confused, yet determined!!!
And thank you for posting this awe inspiring tutorials. If I did it right yesterday I can do it right again as well as learn from your other tutorials. LOVE IT!! Just don’t know how I ‘lost’ it….
Thank you kindly,
Best Regards,
Sarah
cool effect….!!!
very good efect
this is thank you..
wow thats amazing
A tutorial well worth a fairy tale scene. Like the beuty and creativity
Funcking Awesome !!!!
thank you very much koyimde geri geri kaç
Thanks for all comments! I will pay more attention to the details next time
Beautiful tutorial! I HAVE to go try it!
Thanks for sharing your talent with us!
Hugs,
Claudette
Shadows and highlights are completely off. The lighting of the background is completely different from the lighting placed on the model.
Very easily detectable as photoshopped.
Beautiful…
omg, the first virgin tutorial of 10steps.sg. Keep it up, evo!