NikiTheCreator: 7/20/08

Hi friends first i have to thank Ashok (bangalore) for the encouragement he has given me to do this. He inspired me to do these kind of photoshop work.

Whatever i have explained here is not only the method. May be you can start with this but there are plenty of other, easy and excellent methods are there to bring out these effects. whatever i have explained here is what i have done. so enjoy it .. and when you feel its helped you just add comments so that i can still improve in making tutorials much better.

If you don't understand anywhere in this tutorial kindly mail me to this ID webniki@gmail.com with title as the subject i am ready to help you.

Step 01

* Photo has been duplicated as “Layer 0 copy” as backup

Step 02

* A texture has been added with opacity 94% - to blend with photo

Step 03

* That layer has been duplicated and masked with the tool “Add vector mask” bottom of the layer panel with opacity 94%. And I have used the eraser tool with 100% opacity and flow and I erased around the fish. For the better visibility of the fish.

Step 04

* Here I have added Color balance option using the tool available bottom of the layer panel called “Create new fill or adjustment layer”. From there I have selected the color balance option and set the values as follows

Midtones = Red : +36, Green: -11, Blue: -1.

To get a kind of red warm feeling in photo

Step 05

* Here again Ive used the same tool to select the option called “Photo filter” to get a Yellow tint.

Select “Deep Yellow” using the filter dropdown box. And I kep the density 25%

Step 06

* Here I have duplicated the same texture image and I have added some focused light to the texture image and I kept opacity as 94% to get some focused look

This option is available from filter>render>lighting effects and follow the steps as it in the following image

Step 07

* Here Ive used the curves option from the “Create new fill or adjustment layer” tool which is available in the bottom of the layer panel. Follow the settings in the image follows

Step 08

* Here I have used a news paper image and I have placed it in the left top corner and applied the blend mode as overlay so that it get blend with photo and I have masked the layer and I have used the eraser tool to erase the edge of the image so that it get blended well with the photo

Step 09

* Here ive used the world map image and I have placed that in the top right corner of the photo and applied the blend mode as overlay and I have masked and erased the edges with erase tool.

Step 11

* Here I have added few dummy text and I have made it as it looks in the image and I have applied gaussion blur from filter menu. That time it become a image and I have reduced fill option to 37% so its visible but not bright.

Step 12

* Here I have created a blank layer and made a black feather ovel using elliptical marquee tool to get some dark space to keep the titles.

Step 13

*Here I have created a blank layer and made a black feather ovel using elliptical marquee tool to get some dark space to keep the titles.

Step 14

* Here I have started developing the title effect

I have used the following details to get the title effect

* Font : “Copperplate Gothic Bold”
* Size : 72pt
* Space between characters is : 100%

* And I have applied two separate colors for both words
* applied Inner shadow & glow option from “add layer style” follow the settings from the following images

Step 15