In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll take a look at building a photo manipulation of a city in a coffee cup. We will learn about making selections, masking, layering to create illusions, building shadows, compositing elements together into a single image, and much more! I hope you enjoy it.
Inspiration for this tutorial.https://www.behance.net/gallery/51446431/Cup-Fantasy-Digital-Art-(Photoshop-Tutorial)
Cup photo by deanna alys on Unsplash
Photo of Chicago
Photo of Airplane
Photo of Hot air balloons
Photo of Birds
Clouds brush
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Recording notes:
- Open the cup image and get rid of the logo via Content-Aware Fill
- Cut the cup off the background and build out a shadow under the cup based on the shadow in the photo
- Create a new document 6000×6000 and drag the mug over
- Center it up and add a gradient background radial grad 95% – 75% brightness
- Add a grain layer to give the background texture
- Clip a Vibrance layer to the cup and reduce saturation
- Open the Chicago photo and cut the skyline from the sky
- Compress the skyline and merge the layers and drag into the mug image
- Drag it into position and mask to the latte of the mug and mask away the edges of the skyline
- Clip a Curves layer and brighten and flatten contrast a tiny bit
- Clip a Curves layer and set to Multiply and fill mask with black and dab shadowy areas in
- Clip a Color Balance layer M:+40/0/-25 H: +12/+5/-15 S: +35/-25/+25
- Add layer above all this stuff and select the latte area of the mug and use a very soft-edged brush and paint in a shadow and adjust opacity as needed
- Create a new layer and paint in some clouds and mask behind the buildings
- Add an airplane to the scene and clip a Hue/Sat layer to the airplane and tweak the color and saturation
- Add the hot air balloons and clip another Hue/Sat layer and tweak
- Use channels to select the flock of birds and position them under the cloud layer and tweak until it looks good
- Create an orange sun in the middle of the skyline
- Add a LUT layer using FUJI F125 Kodak 2395 and use Blend If to bring back the clouds a bit
- Add another grain layer above everything
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