Cinematic Photoshop Manipulation! FULL ADVANCED COURSE

Learn cinematic Photoshop manipulation through a full advanced, step-by-step tutorial that explains every detail to create an amazing visual.

Craft a peaceful dawn-inspired visual by blending simple elements to tell a story and evoke calm emotions, then dive into Photoshop to begin this advanced cinematic manipulation course.

Combine sky, mountains, city, and car into a cinematic composite by matching horizon lines, masking with gradient and brushes, expanding to 4k for flexible composition, and organizing depth.

Adjust the sky colors using color balance to add cyan greens in midtones, blues in shadows, and a reddish-orange highlight, then refine with screen blend, hue/saturation, and masking.

Apply curves to correct lightness in the mountains with a clipping mask. Adjust saturation, hue, and color balance to introduce greens and blues, with subtle reds, while preserving the look.

Adjust blue tones to cyan with a selective color layer and clipping mask, then deepen cyan values with curves, and blend the midground city lights using a soft brush.

Explore foreground blending by adjusting luminosity and color on a ground layer, using curves, color balance, clipping masks, and smart objects to achieve realistic light, shadows, and transitions.

Create a warm street bulb glow with a solid color adjustment layer, large brush strokes, and screen or linear dodge to illuminate the bulb, fence, grass, ground, and car.

Paint an orange glow from the bulb with screen blending, invert the mask, and use a clipping mask with a brush; apply front light overlays and colorize to orange yellow.

Learn to create convincing water reflections in Photoshop by using a bottle map on a ground plane, distorting, flipping, and clipping reflections of scene elements like cars, grass, and bulbs.

Apply final color grading by using curves for vignette and contrast, refine with camera raw settings, add grains, and adjust color mixer and split toning for a vivid cinematic look.