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Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Photoshop

We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Insert two more line’s copies and place them the same way demonstrated below, applying in this case the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Next step we’ll download a set of brushes for in Adobe Photoshop, named: grunge procedural. Create a new layer and choose for it the next brush from downloaded set.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make some brushstroke using grunge procedural brush as shown. The brushes are of white color.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Insert two more copies of the lines:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Combine in a group all the layers composing the lines (press CTRL button and select the appropriate layers. Then hold on the left mouse’s button when dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel). Set the Blending mode to Color Dodge for the last made group.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Using the Pen Tool (P) in Shape Mode, try to make a shape as shown. This layer will be placed lower than the girl’s layer.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
For this layer click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set also Gradient Overlay

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next gradient on the shape:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Using the same tool Pen Tool (P), try to represent another shape like the next one. This layer will be situated also lower.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set the Layers Style > Inner Shadow

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Apply the Gradient Overlay

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer and select here a Soft Mechanical brush of white color (Opacity 20%) to make lighter the edges of recently made shape.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Make some brushstroke with Soft Mechanical brush as shown. The layer needs to be placed under the previous layer (on the layers’ panel).

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Find a stock photo representing the fire on it, I used this photo from Freefoto.com . I would like to thank the author of this photo – Ian Britton.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Desaturate this image using CTRL+SHIFT+U and place it under the layer with the shape and the girl’s layer.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Using the Eraser Tool (E), erase the fire to have the same image as below:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set the Blending mode to Luminosity for this layer

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Select Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to add more lightness on image:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
This layer will be placed above the girl’s layer:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Alt button while clicking between the layers with the Curves adjustment layer and the girl’s layer (on the Layers’ panel) to apply the lightness just for the girl’s layer.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Next we’ll add another adjustment layer. Click on the bottom part of the Layers’ panel on the Create new fill or adjustment layer and select Hue/Saturation:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Reduce the color saturation:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Alt button and click between the layers (on the layers’ panel) to apply saturation just for the girl’s layer.

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4
We’ve got the next result:

Create a galactic girl photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop CS4

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