This tutorial covers a more abstract image synthesis. The author is not a lot of material used, the characters and some of the desert and sky link, there is a strong imagination, which is the author want to show the mood. final results
1 , the new document 800x800 pixels, drag the dry wasteland images, appropriately scaled, and then open the beautiful picture, with a pen to the back, and dragged into the document.
2, into the sky pictures, put in the bottom of the girl, add a mask, black and white linear gradient to produce a fade effect.
3, the following deal with what color of the sky, the sky layer selected, add a Gradient Map adjustment layer, and the formation of a clipping mask, layer pattern color, opacity 49%, select Layer 1 layer is dry, add a Gradient Map adjustment layer, layer mode, Linear Burn, Opacity 50%.
4, results before and after comparison.
5, let's polish beautiful, beautiful layer selected, add a Levels adjustment layer, and the formation of a clipping mask.
6, add a Photo Filter adjustment layer.
7, add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.
8, add a color balance adjustment layer.
9, add a Gradient Map adjustment layer, layer mode light, opacity 63%.
10, we get similar results as shown below,
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