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We’re almost done with the beanstalk image, but I’d like to add some random bits and bobs to give it some pizzazz.
Sources: Moon: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1126941 Stars: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1005288
YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZcoOx94ox8
Moonshine
Copy/paste the moon image into the beanstalk scene. I’m keeping the moon layer at about 150 wide and have flipped it horizontally.
This time, in the dropdown menu above the list of layers, choose ‘Screen’; the black in the layer will vanish, and the moon will blend in nicely.
Although, a glow around it wouldn’t go amiss. We’ll cheat with the glow and use a filter. Click Filters > Artistic > Softglow. Move the sliders until you get something pretty. I used a high brightness and glow radius.
The good thing about doing this in a non-destructive manner is that you can change anything at any time without having to completely redo chunks of the image. I’m going to use an S-curve now on the tree as I think it needs to have brighter highlights on it and that hollow should be nice and dark.
One last thing is that I’m going to add some stars to the sky, so it’s time to bring in the image of the stars: place the layer below the moon layer, and make it about 300 pixels wide. This time though, make the layer mode ‘Lighten only’ from the dropdown menu. The last thing to do is give the stars a layer mask that will fade them out midway down the image.
Next month we’ll have a tutorial from Thomas Standiford on making your photo look retro.