Photoshop advanced manipulation course - The great deer

Master advanced photo manipulation by cutting and combining images, adjusting light for depth, correcting color and saturation to blend elements, and distributing light for a cohesive final look.

Create a 1920x1080 canvas and blend a dramatic sky with the ground using curves, color balance, masking, and a hazing layer.

Remove the woods background with blend if and refine the selection. Use a smart object and clipping masks with saturation, curves, color balance, and solid color adjustments to harmonize lighting.

Create depth in your photo manipulations by using three brightness layers: dark, high-contrast foreground, softer middle ground, and bright background. Use masks and color adjustments on trunks and plants.

Select the left trunk with the object tool, invert the mask, refine edges, apply curves and color balance to blend tones, then duplicate, flip, and add shadows with luminosity blend.

Master midground composition by integrating deer and rocks, using channels to find contrast, duplicating, masking, and turning into a smart object for seamless color and perspective adjustment.

Composite a man into a scene in Photoshop by selecting and masking, refine edges, then use puppet warp, color balance, and curves to match lighting and integrate legs.

Match the midground colors and lightness by using curves, hue/saturation, and color balance with clipping masks to balance shadows, midtones, and highlights across rocks, the deer, and the man.

Master creating a convincing flame by overlaying and warping a flame texture, applying screen blending, and painting glow with a colorized orange light, then refine shadows and fog reflections.

master sky-light creation in photoshop by using solid color adjustment layers, screen blending, fog and rays, and layered lighting on the deer, rocks, and trees to add depth.

Paint orange highlights in the eyes and ears with a colorize saturation layer, then add glow and subtle particles to emphasize the deer's main focal point.

Apply final grading by merging layers into a smart object; adjust temperature, tint, contrast, highlights, shadows, vibrance, curves, and split toning for yellow highlights and blue shadows.