In this tutorial, I will teach you step by step how to design this fantasy-style castle scene. We will use a cold background, castle materials, fragment brushes, and space brushes.
We will use many PS techniques, such as layer blending modes, selection tools, filter effects, masks, and image adjustments. These steps are a little tricky, but it won't hurt if we try.
renderings
First we open the background image
Duplicate a layer and set the mode to Soft Light
Create a new Curves adjustment layer (Layer--New Adjustment Layer--Curves)
Set the Curves adjustment layer blending mode to Multiply
Create a new Color Balance adjustment layer (Layer--New Adjustment Layer--Color Level)
shadow
mid tone
The color balance adjustment layer mode is Soft Light.
You can see that the image is now much darker and more eye-catching than the original image
2. Now open the castle material
Select the magic wand tool and select the sky area of the castle. Hold down the SHIFT key to make multiple selections.
Press SHIFT+CTRL+I to reverse
Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and hold down the ALT key to select the lower half of the selection. This will cut out our castle.
Then adjust the edge (select--adjust edge), the parameters are as follows
