Why I made this one differently...? - Guardians of the Desert - Photo manipulation tutorial

this video is sponsored by envato elements today i will show you how we created these guardians of the desert photo manipulation so let's [Music] start hey guys it's neyman and welcome to another really fun photo manipulation tutorial this will be a step-by-step tutorial and usually how i make these tutorials is before recording before doing this i just do a photo manipulation photoshop but just roughly like more like a little bit advanced sketch to see if all the elements will fit together etc to know what i will do later in the tutorial so you don't need to watch me thinking and doing all the necessary steps here before you but today's different day today i will do just like that because i didn't have time to do everything before this will be uh the first time i'm doing this so you and i will see everything for the first time together with that difference that i downloaded all the photos and i have some idea in my mind but how this will came up we will see by the end of this episode right so without further ado let the fun begin right guys we're here in photoshop and i have a bunch of different photos that i downloaded from envato elements so uh what we will do let's go back to our background so this is something that we'll start with and i just have this the rule of thirds grid if you don't know what is it and how to do some compositions in photography or doing photo replacements check out this video right here right so i will just fast forward this uh grabbing these photos and paste it right there okay so now i will go and convert each of these to smart objects just because i want to preserve the pixels if i need to make them a lot smaller than bigger i can do that with the smart objects okay so this is it this is our main background and these are some really cool photos so ctrl command t to make this smaller and let's see let's see how this will be so i like this and i like these rocks etc in the desert this is too clean for my taste for the idea that i have but okay let's see what we can combine and mix together the sun is coming from this direction and here are the shadows and in this photo the sun is coming from this direction here the shadows so we either need to invert this photo or to invert this photo so let's try inverting this one controller command t right click flip horizontal press enter and that looks cool but now i want to put a layer mask right here let's see if we i like the sky so let's see the sky this one is a little bit more interesting and dynamic and dramatic than this one but we will see what we'll do at the end so let's let's start by erasing this rock so let's see this brush i want 100 opacity and okay so this is it this looks cool should i maybe let me see maybe i should keep just this part here let's zoom this and make the brush a little bit harder just keep this okay from time to time i will just fast forward something just because it's nothing special but i don't want you to waste time watching me refining the edge for example and something like this because i don't know how long this tutorial will be because i didn't do this before and probably this can take several hours to create this perfectly but for the time sake of these tutorials i will go faster something i will rush about some details because this is not me doing perfect photo manipulation it's me showing you some techniques that you need to learn and understand and then implement into your own workflow so here my idea is to use this photo when i saw this photo let's make it smaller the idea was to put it somewhere here let's say something like this i don't know so for example and to grab let me show you to grab not this one but this statue right there and let's hide it i don't need it anymore and to put it let's go to smart object okay and before before that sorry before i'm going to smart object i just want to create a layer mask and i want to erase this because i actually don't need this i just need other things of her so like that and now i will just go right click apply layer mask and then right click and convert to smart later i will rename the layer so don't worry about that and my idea is to put her somewhere here just to be inside the sand a little bit and to make her a little bit bigger so control or command t and let's see something like like this maybe maybe not sure let's try it like that okay okay so maybe a little bit bigger like that like this maybe let's see and maybe maybe even bigger like this now we have one issue here let's put it something like there so the issue is that we oversize this and then we lose the quality a little bit of the textures you can see she's a little bit blurry but we will fix this it's not good i don't like to do this but i'll fix it by just going with this to filter camera and do some cool fix there so what i will do i will zoom it and then i will go with the clarity a little bit with the texture a little bit see the difference but just a little bit and then i will sharpen it so details and sharpen this see i don't want to do it a lot but just a little bit okay and i will press ok because this is a smart filter this is the smart object this is a smart smart filter i can always go back and forth and change some settings so before and after this is much better and now i will go with the tutorial so this is statue and now let's see i don't want this sky obviously then i will go right there and use a quick selection tool and just quickly oh this is cool quickly select the sky add it as a layer mask and let's see if we need to refine this a little bit yeah maybe we need to refine the edges so let's fast forward this guys because i will just use a brush and a little bit softer brush this one a little bit softer and just refine it okay so this looks cool this i will see later so i will group all of these actually all of these and name it background and now i will show you how i how i will match everything together all the photos so here with this one uh first let's let's put a statue let's go with layer mask now let's put the statue inside the sand so i will go with my cloud a smoke brush so let's go with this one and you can get these brushes for just one dollar on link right there so actually not right there but down in the description you have a link to my website store and you can get it for just one dollar the set of my cloud storm cloud dust and smoke brushes and okay this is for just making the effect like she's standing inside the sand a little bit more organic i can make this brush maybe bigger see it's not just like a simple round brush it's a little bit better effect okay we will later even more refine this if i don't forget because i'm a little bit thrashing for the time sake of the tutorial but this is cool for now this is really really cool we have one line here and that line is from a layer mask i think of this yeah this one so let's go here and just make it bigger black color and just this is it okay i don't like this so i will go right here really soft brush and i will just erase this because i love this sand right there but how much uh probably probably until here probably something like this and here we have the trails from the car and see this is huge because the car is this is trails from the car probably so let's pretend that it is i think it is so this will be really cool like that and now we need to just see about this no i will leave this like it's it should be here perfect like it's a wall and then we have a really nice plane of sand here and down there let's see let's test something i just want to test it because i don't know usually i would know if i would do this [Music] because i already did it but let's try to leave it like that and then maybe maybe well i got up there so maybe with this soft brush right there feel it a little bit here not too much and then blend everything together so let's see okay now we need to match the colors and saturation of these dunes of three different photos and how to do that first of all i will go with this one and i will go with let's see curves clip it to effect like this i need to make it darker but how how dark so i will show you a trick for that and also i need to change the hue or actually saturation with the color balance and the color with the color balance but probably i will need to change the situation to llc first of all we'll go all the way up create new black and white adjustment layer and when i have everything in black and white i can easily see just the light so how dark this should be so i already make it not i didn't actually so something like this so these two should blend nicely together i don't care about this one because this is a brighter part there so i just want these two that are touching each other basically these two layers to be nice again i have this octa box right there and it's making me hard to see the light properly but i think it's good here and there okay so then i will hide this and see that's for now okay then we have a color balance and with the color balance i can change the color of this a little bit more of the yellow a little bit more of the red maybe a little bit of the green touch of it now let's go to shadows do the same a little bit of [Music] these two um maybe it's too yellow again this light is crazy but you need to see me and let's go to highlights and add a little bit of the both tones let's see something like this looks cool now let's see about saturation so this is better than this obviously and then this so we have something here really cool so i will go with the hue and saturation adjustment layer clip it effect only that and now see how this saturated should be so there is really cool trick i did a full tutorial on saturation check adjustment layer you can watch it on link right there now i will just use it i don't want to explain it i think i did it yeah i did it in a previous episode too really um briefly but you have full episode about that so selective colors adjustment layer i have saturation check preset and these two needs to be the same brightness so here the brightness is key the brighter the more saturated so like like this and let's hide that and this is cool so i really like it maybe just to do something let me see uh if i go here to the curves and just brighten this up part a little bit [Music] that's nice so let's go back here and see if i will erase this [Music] or add this i'm not sure so [Music] let's leave it like that this is before this is after and we have let me see right there we have this that it's [Music] our background here and yeah i would leave it like that okay and this one is really good so that one is this and maybe let's see with uh saturation check maybe if i go right here here in saturation and just darken it a bit wait what happened it's not this one it's oh we paint we painted this one about so let's see yeah we cannot do much with that but let's let's leave it like this okay so i will delete this layer i don't need it let's see black and white yeah i maybe need to make this a little bit darker but maybe not we'll see that later okay so i will leave it like this i really like it so the next step is i don't like it actually i don't like this this color so it's there but it's not there so i can try something i can go here with the color balance let's see i'll fast forward this guys [Music] okay so i just changed a tiny bit here i like it like that a little bit more yeah i like a little bit more solid let's leave it like that okay the next step is to try to fix the statue to make it like it's more like a sand color or something like that but i have an idea because this statue i cannot see the other arm because it's a little bit like it's here but it's a little behind so you cannot see my arm here so i for that reason choose this statue right there and let's go where is it's here i want to make it bigger and to use just this arm like to put this pier on the um oops on this first statue so let's see the shoulder this is too big so the shoulder we need to match the shoulder sorry guys about this okay so the shoulders are here i think this is cool and this is okay size i don't care about the hat i don't care about this they're a little bit different but i need to match this or maybe a little bit bigger a little bit bigger like that a little bit down and okay let's say that it's that's okay so what i like to do here again i will fast forward i will use a pen tool and just go and quickly extract the r okay but before i do this i just want to say that this video is sponsored ben vado elements in case you don't know envato elements is amazing huge website where you can find millions of assets for basically any project that you're doing i'm using them a lot so a bunch of elements here are from nevada elements my personal favorites are 3d elements like these statues right there and i will use the advantages of these 3d elements to add later shadows you will see 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is what i want i want to just zoom this a little bit show backdrop okay and make this bigger and just move it move everything here [Music] like that press enter and this is it before and after we can fix this but there is no particular reason for that so now i can go with these two yeah and i can uh convert this to smart object just big oops nothing like that this is the smart object just because i can use the same amount of the filter on this one so you can see yeah and now i can rasterize this one and apply layer mask when or or or i can just move a layer mask here for a moment and rasterize this one merge these two together control command e bring back the layer mask and that's it so i can put it back to smart object if i want and i don't i don't think i will need it so i will make a group of this and name it statue number one because i have an idea to put another one here and now let's play with some settings so i need exposure to make everything darker and i need probably human saturation adjustment layer these two for now we will see so for the exposure i will make everything darker but how much dark i want as dark as these shadows right there something like that so i will go with the black and white adjustment layer and try to match match that so this looks cool like the shadows right there it's pretty okay i think and now let's bring this back and another part is to change the colors so we will colorize this into the yellowish tone something something like this but before we do that i just want to play with the the shadows we need to reconfigure the lights i will go with exposure i will fast forward this because i don't know how it will how well it will take me to do it but definitely i will not do it really precise because it will take a while the idea is to go just with lower opacity brush and just bring back some really soft brush bring back some light to the model and to the spear here and everything like it's in real life situation the sun is coming from this direction so on uh this part of the model we need to have shadows on other part lights and that's it so let's fast forward this [Music] okay so this is it this is before this is after it's a solid difference uh i can do it better but again for the time's sake i was satisfied with this so i will just erase the part of the spear here like it's it's down in the sand like that that's cool and let's say that's pretty okay now let's colorize it so hue saturation and let's see the saturation check so it needs to be saturated like this here so something like this i don't want to mess with this so probably probably like that let's see acetonation check off now let's match the colors so this looks nice i think i think i cannot see properly this let's go here and nudge it a little bit okay it's not there yet it's too much red so [Music] let's say this is okay for now maybe we'll tweak it later definitely we'll tweak something here now what we need to do is to go to another statue this one i will copy it and let's bring it right right right there about about here this is statue i want to put it into a smart object but again before that i'll just go with the eraser tool because i don't need this it can be destructive i'll just erase this okay like that why not so let's see if i go with this i just want to make sure that everything is gone and i will press ctrl command t and see that i have something more here so i'll just go with lassa tool shift control i or shift command i delete and then control quantity i have just her so that's pretty cool so i will put her somewhere here like this and i want to put it behind this rock so she is too big right now so i want to make her a little bit smaller probably like that but again before that again before that convert to smart object now i can play with the size because because i don't want to mess something up maybe i will make it her too small and i want to make her bigger and i i cannot do it so something like this but she's too small maybe a little bit bigger so this is why i have have it as a smart object so like that let's see maybe a tiny bit bigger so trial and error maybe like that i like to unzoom it to see better the whole composition and i think just a little bit bigger and we are there so like this okay and now let's go and add a layer mask just quickly with the brush and with this one make it a little bit softer i will just erase everything here and put her behind the rock so this is cool maybe a little bit more and then bring it back like this perfect and the same thing here i want to do it a little bit more than i should and then bring everything back so like this and just paint it back like that amazing so we have two statues they're too big we don't have still the real reference of the size of the statues but we will do it really quickly uh so here i wanted to put it another group name it statue number two and i will use this exposure layer and this saturation layer copy it right there clip it to effect only that and i need to delete this layer max to fill it with white and now i will do again the same thing this one needs to be a little bit brighter though so double tap i will do the same thing and i will just fast forward and paint the light there on layer mask right here okay let's do it [Music] okay so this is it about the light painting maybe you can do it better not maybe but i can do it better but not for this amount of time so now let's make it orange and [Music] i don't like it why well because she is too saturated for this part right there maybe not so maybe not so orange maybe a little bit more like that let's see this looks bad this looks okay when i don't have the light here but i have still the problem maybe maybe like that okay let's say for now this is cool now we need to paint some wow don't do it and now we need to paint some shadows so let's go first to the statue number one let's let's close this these are helpers okay we will see about this later and actually let's do it now first i'll put it right there the idea is that these are the steps from the camel and the trails actually from the camel and this is the camel and i only think what i did before this tutorial is to extract these uh guys with a camel out of the background just for the time sake of this so i will just copy this and i want to go back so i want to copy it close it i don't need it anymore and paste it right there right click apply layer mask ctrl command t and flip horizontal so i want to put them here so we need to think about the size before that let's turn them into smart object because the size you know okay so they will be really small because i want this to be really really big they are closer to the cameras they will be somewhere here they will be even smaller probably probably yes but let's leave it like that for now okay now let's let's deal with this control or command t make everything smaller i want the trails to go something like the camel makes some trails here so something like this and now i will show you the trick how to match this together you already know the trick i already showed you before with these two layers but okay so the point is to use a brush use 100 opacity and i want this brush and just remove practically everything i can use the lasso tool for a start so remove everything here fill it with the black okay and what i will do i will move it right there and actually remove these two because i don't know if i would what i made now i made some mess here if i delete i'll delete everything so no i don't want that i just want i just want this and this and this and this and maybe i believe this part i don't know if i need it but let's leave it fill it black and that's that's it so now let's move this right there okay and now i will use really soft brush this one and softly gently just blend it better okay so here here is like a higher part of dune so this wouldn't be visible all right and now let's let's play first of all let's go with the helpers selective color black and white first of all selective color we need here to go with a hue and saturation clip it and make this less saturated but not this i want this right no problem no problem let's saturate it so something like this all right i want to have fun while doing this otherwise i would go crazy so here woohoo here that's cool then another thing is to make it darker so this will show us the amount of darkness we need to apply let's go with the curse let's put a curse above put it in a luminosity blending mode just to protect the colors and make everything darker like this like this i like this and what i'm looking i'm looking in this part right here i don't care about this why you will see okay now that you know the trick let's go here to the layer mask and softly make this brighter okay let's see what we did oh really nice so let's let's blend this a little bit better with the proper color okay this is not perfect but no problem we need to move it down we need to blend it even better here and we will add some smoke here and actually the dust etc so we will cover a lot of things so i like this i like this for now that's pretty cool uh maybe i don't like the size of the camera maybe so let's bring what is this this is the camel let's bring everything into one group controller command g camel and now ctrl argument t and let's put it right there just make it smaller make it smaller like this wait a little bit wow i don't want it like that then i need to go like this let's see if i move it now oh it's better but i need to put it somewhere here all right the other idea see this i don't like it so we can fix it don't worry everything can be fixed that's a photoshop and see these outlines of the camel i don't like it but i don't care because i'll put a smoke actually the dust above it so it won't be visible so don't fix something that doesn't need to be fixed because you will spend a lot of time doing this without any reason okay so let's go and take this and let's see where we can put it let's go all about here not in the helpers but actually here one more step right here oh no no right there sorry so like that and let's see if we put this that's a perfect composition actually no this is not a perfect composition let's make it bigger let's see i don't like it do you like it i know i don't like it either but if you put it somewhere oh that's not bad maybe just like there is some kind of rock here in the camel just went through nobody knows what is it nobody knows what is it maybe like a rock here i don't know and put it uh make it blurry just to add a first front plane of the composition maybe one there and i don't know maybe one here who knows what do you think i'm not sure about this one i'm not sure about this one but um no i'll delete this one and with this one i will go like that maybe i can rotate it a little bit maybe maybe like maybe like this and then i need to move the camera so to move the camera right there let's see not bad not bad at all wow my channel is somewhere here let's try to blur this to see how this works so right click convert smart object filter blur gaussian blur and let's do it now it's cool but it's too cool i don't want to be too cool maybe around eight nine let's say nine for now but we can always change it here so that's cool and also i want to paint the lights here so exposure clip it effect only that make it darker and i will leave it dark like that but i'll just paint some highlights here and that's it so i want to leave this maybe maybe it is a little bit brighter because i want to make this even evenly dark this side of the rock but otherwise let's leave it like this i don't know if you see what i see here but i don't want to tell that if you see it leave it down in the comments now i saw something that maybe we shouldn't make it like that but unfortunately we can always double tap go inside here now i see it and i cannot answer it and go to liquefy okay and don't ask me why but i just want to change the shape a little bit just to change the shape a little bit maybe like that maybe a little bit like that and here oops not like that i don't know what to do with this rock maybe make it a little bit more square so let's unzoom it and a little bit more square okay this is this is a different story let's press okay save it close it and ah that's better that's better so we can always go right here add a layer mask and i want to do [Music] go with 100 opacity i know this is already a long tutorial but i can either do a speed out of this or i can just you can just watch me doing this you can always fast forward the video but all right let's say that's pretty cool for now what we need to do now is to add the shadows i will fast forward this i will just paint the shadows there and that's it so there there's one cool trick let me let me show you that really quickly there is one cool trick so i went to enviro elements and downloaded the same statue here but in a different orientation and that's the beauty of 3d elements you can rotate them to fit your needs so why i did this well because i want to make shadows really easily so first of all if you just go like wait i need this and this i made a mess here i don't need this okay so if you just go and go to statue number one and put this into the statue number one group right and control click on the statue to load this and also click on the new layer and fill it with any color for example this one and then just grab this and lower it down or rotate it flip vertical and then you know rotate this as a shadow the color don't look at a color i put it in multiply blending mode just to see it better so this is not proper because it's not that angle the sun is coming from let's delete this the sun is coming from that direction so practically in the side of the model and you will see just the silhouette of the side of the model down there on the floor so this would help a lot so i will just erase right click rasterize i will just erase this completely right [Music] and like that i don't need this and now what i will do i'll put it here i will just use this with the concentration adjustment layer clip it affect only the layer down below and go like that and all right i have a silhouette so that's one way another way is whoops i don't want to do it another way is maybe a little bit better because of the color of the shadow because shadow is never black i can delete this and just go click and fill it with some colors so this is maybe too bright but i can always go and change that by using concentration adjustment layer now i will go and flip vertical make it smaller no no no no don't do that don't listen to me don't listen to me so i want to put it right there yeah and i don't want to have these outside parts they're distracting me so again the same thing just delete them control command t yeah i have some more here i don't know what is it i don't see it but i just want to delete it again i have more of them so what's going on here guys delete delete delete ctrl command yeah that's better okay flip vertical put it right there and go like this go like this go like this go like this and this is something that we would see but without the legs obviously we need to fix that we can easily fix that layer and the shadow will be probably something like that so this is not 100 100 good but we are just having fun with this so it's better than doing the first idea that i i show you so something like that press enter and now what i like to do i just want to paint paint and erase this right and just use brush and really hard one and just paint here leg okay it's part of this leg this leg will go into this shadow so it will be something like that and also control command t and right click and i'm trying this i don't know if this will work but this is the idea so control click click click click click here and here and here and i just want to no i want one click here whoops come on okay to protect that and to protect this i just want to move and to protect maybe this just want to move this like inside here and i just realized that i can do it better i can do it better and i can do it like like this because i will add temporary um lines here so here and here and here it's too close here and here and then i will go to filter you never saw this anybody doing i assume because that just came to my mind right now so why i'm doing this i just have a better idea where i want to do it but i want to move this you know like the shadow is coming down to that part of the dune [Music] like this okay let's see what we did here yeah it's better so i want to erase this okay i want to put this into multiply blending mode that's perfect and that's too dark and that's too saturated so huge saturation adjustment player clip it effect only this and now i will fast forward this i will do the same for the other statue this is already taking a lot of time and also i will blur this because i want to make not so harsh shadows but that's that's the point [Music] [Music] all right so this shadow is not the best but we will cover it because i have the idea to put a lot of a lot of dust and smoke here so we'll cover that for now let's leave it like that i will not worry about that too much this one is pretty much cool and now we need to make the shadow for the camel so where is the camel it's right there so right behind this again i will fast forward i will do what we shouldn't do but i will do it so that and that and this is it so you can see it's not it's not the best thing to do in this situation but let's just save the time for the tutorial i will do it and again will be a lot of smoke and we can go with this all right fast forward okay so this is about the shadow now let's go to the camera let's add exposure adjustment layer make these guys darker and i can do that with with the curse too but the idea is just to make them darker and i don't want this to affect so double click on that to affect too much dark parts of the camel like that and then again go and paint the light back so again pretty fast job here but it will do the trick i think okay so let's bring that back bring a little bit of the tail here bring this back i can fast forward this but [Music] let's not fast forward everything beanie if this should be good then we need to do more things here about the light uh and you know more things means more time spending here the longer episode and you know for you guys who stick to this part right here you want to learn definitely you want to see how it's done and to see all the details etc but maybe there are some of you guys who are still thinking i want a five minutes episodes when when i see that comment you will never be good at this because in five minutes you cannot make photo manipulation you can make something i don't know what but these these things takes time sometimes to three weeks to create something really cool including 3d elements modeling etc so trust me one hour two hours of this uh it's nothing it's so funny that it's practically nothing so basically what we should do here is to go and add maybe another exposure adjustment layer clip it to effect only this make everything darker invert it and then paint some parts probably this wouldn't be so visible so let's paint it back the dark okay no because sun is on the other side and everything that is brighter on this side shouldn't be shouldn't be visible maybe not this too much but you got a point so this etc so that's that's one way another way is just to go and take this color and just paint it here paint it here but then i need to remove the oops i need to remove remove now x okay remove this 100 opacity i think i removed the writing yeah so then we can use and paint it paint it and paint this too you know so that we have impression that's [Music] how it should be okay and there are a lot of painting here so you you need to paint and paint and add light that's why i love to do my own photos in the proper light conditions etc because it's much better but i would leave it like this for now right guys so this is this is it this is okay for now so let's let's add some elements here uh this is rock i don't know what is it i want to move it a little bit more here here i don't know why i haven't i know if i should actually remove it but i like it some somehow i like it but maybe i need to put someone here i don't know but [Music] for some reason i'm i'm liking this right it doesn't matter so let's go and first let's go all the way down to the background above the background and actually let's let's go inside here and add some dust all right let's add some dust so i want to add dust [Music] um let me see right let's try we can add a layer mask so i want to use my cloud dust number two brush so let's choose the colors i want this and make it brighter so this color and i want another darker color here and make it less saturated so let's try all right so here it is we are adding some sand dust right there uh yeah this is because the shadow is about the dust so we can split the shadow from the statue number two group we can't do that why not so this is the shadow statue number two and actually we can we can group this and name this like that and put it outside and put it here okay that's better but you know what no let's put the dust all the way up that's even better all right we'll fix things the other way oh what i forgot to add is the shadow of this pier you're probably already sad at to yourself oh where is the shadow from the spear but um it will be there don't worry okay so this is one part of the dust the other part is here from the camel now like it's making this so that's why i said this was not so important here because it will be filled with dust another one bus dust okay so this is it i need to clear it from here because it will not affect this definitely and maybe we need to make this dust a little bit more what maybe a little bit more like this color colorize a little bit [Music] okay i want to add here like it's going up it's gonna go right then let's clip this erase the dust from here because i don't want it there i like this let's make let's fast forward this and just just add the shadow here [Music] okay so this is it now let's play with few other things let's go right there human saturation decelerate this a little bit because i don't like it like that so a little bit desaturated also what i like to do just a little bit before everything here go let's try this this is pairing gradient map okay this is nice gradient map and i want to go with some oranges reds let's see reds no orange let's say i want to go with let's try this right so i want this one here this one there and i want this one to be orange with dark actually actually this one will be black here we will have darker version of orange like that here and here this will be white completely white right maybe not completely white maybe just a touch of a yellow just a little bit and this one should be maybe orange maybe like this okay let's see let's experiment with this right yeah see how this can be cool but i don't want to be such a pronounced effect so i can go with this all the way up so above the shadows um the dust and everything i can put it in soft light no no i can put it in a color no luminosity no i can put it in multiply no but what i can do i can lower the opacity of this i like it a little bit not too much right so this is just add a mood and now we need to play with a lot of things so now usually what i like to do usually i like to just leave it like that save it a little like that go and take some time off the screen because i can see better some errors and other things maybe i'll get another idea what to do what to add etc but then i will come back and add other things or do a color grading or just continue with this but for the time sake of this tutorial and i don't have time and i'm pretty tired right now because of the situation you already know if you're following this channel i need to finish it like now uh without making a break so ah let's see if we can change the sky or leave it like that and just change the color etc so first of all this is the sky we can go here and say edit and sky replacement and here photoshop will load the screen and the screen is on my other monitor so let's bring it right there okay and now we can change the sky so it's already changed is this one it doesn't look bad but let's see what we can do we can go here to some other skies if we go with this one let's let's add this like it's on another planet it's crazy but we don't want that so oh not bad we can choose either these images right there or we can just add some of our images i can flip it now because the sun is coming from that direction i can move it a little bit maybe like this and i can play with the saturation that actually temperature color adjustment etc so let's see [Music] this is not bad this is before with the original sky this is after i will pause the video and go online and try to find some other skies that maybe fits better i don't know let's let's just do that let's pause the video okay i searched for some clouds for around 10 minutes and i realized that i can search it for half an hour hour to find like something that i like this seems really cool let's see if this would work so i didn't try it but it looks really dramatic so let's let's go back here and let's put it wow convert to smart object okay let's put this is crazy oh this is crazy so definitely we need to flip it horizontally this is crazy so make it smaller let's see something like this and what i like to do is to bring back the mountains here so i will use quick selection tool and quickly hopefully nicely select this nice and put it right here as a layer mask so that's cool and let's see what we can do with these clouds so oops we need to unclip the mask from the from the layer so this looks nice but let's make it even smaller i i like it actually it's dramatic but what i don't like is this down part is too dark so i'll fix that by our either adding layer mask let's see if we move this like that or make this really dark i'm not sure i like it i like these clouds i'm not sure about this right let's let's make it like this for now and let's go right there and add a layer mask down below let's see 100 really soft brush and brush out these parts also i will add some smoke right there so we'll try to see how that would work so let's let's add some dust let's see guys this is just me experimenting and and we will see what we will get here that's not bad also i would go right here let's go to camera now let's see what we can do there maybe add more orange i don't know so this is the clouds these are the clouds let's go to basics maybe a little bit more orange let's go to color mixer so yeah if we add a little bit more red this can be dramatic this can be in dull but try oh i forgot yeah this is maybe better i don't know but uh let's see before and after yeah and what i like to do is try to open the shadows a little bit just try like there is a storm coming and i like it so basic shadows open them a little bit like this maybe like that and yeah like i like this to be bright on left side so let's see how this would work this would yeah that's cool that's really really nice right now let's go and play with some dust so we have dust layer here i want to add a little bit of the dust right there actually i will do it on a set parade layer so this is here this is not bad but i can add a layer mask and remove some of them can do that okay then another dust layer and now i can paint here because i definitely want this to be on a separate layer like the storm is coming there are a lot of dust here i know if i should add a little bit here like i don't know this is just an idea i don't know if it's good or not maybe like like this and maybe to a little bit of the darker okay now let's see we need to make her oh there are a lot of work now uh i will fast forward this i will make her more blurry and maybe a little bit of the background clouds and basically then i will do a color grading so let's let's fast forward this process because maybe it can take some time but i want to make some things blurry so let's do it so [Music] [Music] okay so i did a few tweakings here and there and added just some hyenas here i don't know why but it's cool maybe i will add a little bit of dust and that's it that's it that's actually actually i can go on this layer and that's it and i will color grade it and finish finish with this because it's already taking so much time but this is nothing this is not a big amount or how to say big or high or i don't know how you say in english um it's not much time invested for this because guys trust me for these type of things uh you need to invest much more so this is just me rushing over the things but hopefully everything will come really nicely out of this so let's see let's see how this will be all right so now let's go all the way up let's go to to do color look up why not and let's see don't go there go here let's see if we can use some of these lights so let's go and let's scroll through them oh this looks nice this looks really nice no okay i'll just quickly go through some of them to see it's not not bad like a nice scene but i don't want to knight i want day scene this is not bad but too contrasty this not bad i know that all of you have your own preferences but i will go with this one uh yeah i will go with this one okay i will lower the opacity a little bit so let's see around 50 or so percent all right then i will merge everything together shift ctrl t or shift command option on the mac turn it into smart object and go to filter camera and just do a few tweakings there and finalize it and let's call it for today it's a really long tutorial so here maybe maybe a little bit more like like this okay shadows maybe open them a little bit but what i like to do i like to go here and this is photoshop 2022 so in case you're wondering what this is it's a little bit different so i want this gradient and i really love how this works so maybe like that let's see and say i want this to be darker so this part i want darker maybe not like exposure but maybe shadows a little bit and let's see if we can add a little bit more more orange there [Music] or not i don't want to use it like that so maybe zero so maybe i just want to to to to to just go with just a little bit we'll see now here if the vignette will do the trick so i want that to be darker but we can go like that too feather it a little bit i like it also what we can do we can go to color grading let's see if we got shadows and make them more like that make them even darker a little bit see the blending so balance it more towards the highlights i like it let's see the color mixer and let's see the situation of oranges maybe actually first of all let's see the hue should i go more towards the yellows or towards the reds so maybe a little bit towards the yellows with the reds more towards the reds i don't want to be like all the way like that i want a little bit more rats here situation let's see if we saturated the reds you can actually make the reds darker so that can be cool see all right and the details we can sharpen a little bit just a little bit let's see this and for now let's say this is it let's press ok and this is a final result alright guys so that's finally it for this episode it's pretty long episode i know let me know what you think about the length of this episode do you like longer episodes or you prefer shorter episodes i know that a lot of you guys who already know these tips and tricks etc would prefer shorter episodes just to run through it and see how everything works and get the ideas from that i know because i am that kind of person because i love to watch speed arts because i already know how to do photo manipulations and in some speed arts 5 10 15 minutes i can get so many ideas for some future projects but i know that a lot of you guys are still learning beginners etc and you prefer these types of episodes so i i would like to see your opinion down there in the comments also i would do mix i would do some speed arts i would do longer episodes etc so don't worry both of uh people would get satisfied make sure to like this episode if you like it i would appreciate that a lot share it with your friends and don't forget to subscribe in case you're not already and press that bell icon to get notified about all the future episodes have fun experiment and see you in the next one bye [Music]

Channel: Nemanja Sekulic

Views: 23,858

Keywords: Guardinas, Guardians of the Desert, photo manipulation tutorial, photo manipulation, photo manipulation photoshop, photoshop manipulation, photoshop manipulation tutorial, photoshop manipulation tutorial for beginners, Nemanja Sekulic, Compositing, Fantasy, Fantasy manipu, fantasy manipulation, fantasy manipulation photoshop, fantasy manipulation photoshop tutorial, Photoshop tutorial, Photoshop 2022, Poster

Id: 8UHd4tDR_tU

Length: 71min 19sec (4279 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 05 2021