Tutorial - after

www.soffia.net/tutorial.html

 

Hi guys.

I´ve been getting many emails where people are asking me how

I work my photos

so I thought you´d like a tutorial.

 

Well, this is the first time I do a tutorial. I hope

it makes sence. If you find this helpful

I ´ll try to find a photo that needs a massive

work, and do another one, with more steps and screenshots.

This tutorial is made with Photoshop version 8.0, and a basic

knowledge to do this tutorial helps.

 

 

STEP 1

duplicate layer, name it sky

 

STEP 2

with layer we called sky, go to

IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - LEVELS

and put in the numbers

68

1,38

255

 

 

go to IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - hue saturation

-12

-55

0

 

 

STEP 3

name the background layer mountain (turn off the sky layer)

go to IMAGE - AJUSTMENTS - LEVELS

 

49

1,03

217

 

STEP 4

turn on sky layer, and with that layer selected, erase everything but the sky

 

STEP5

duplicate sky layer, name it blur

 

go to filter - blur - gaussian blur 8,4%

 

 

STEP 6

erase everything but the blue tones with a soft brush to make the clouds in focus

and bring down the opacity of the brush at some points

 

STEP 7

merge sky layer and blur layer and name it sky

at the sky layer go to:

 

levels

44

1,00

255

 

hue-sat and change Cyans, blues and master.

Cyans

-5

-38

0

 

blues

-7

-28

0

 

master

0

-18

0

 

STEP 8

go to mountain layer

 

levels

31

1,00

255

 

at last I put on a radical gradient

with 50% opacity, to do the vignette

(make new gradient from gray to white, with

opacity at ca 70% on the gray part)

This is what I basically do, with some

images I duplicade layers again and again

to ajust the levels, and the hue sat untill I´m

happy. I sometimes use gaussian blur at the sky

if it´s noise after all the ajustments, and then

erase the clouds part to get the focus.

Done