I found this tutorial on StumbleUpon.com, teaching us how to make a story book come to life. But I don't want to do the same thing as the tutorial does. So I follow some of the steps, and created something different on my own.
For more details regarding this tutorial, visit:
As I was thinking about what concept I am going to use for this picture, I thought about the recent earthquake in Japan. And a question regarding human's knowledge, nature, and time comes to my mind. Does human's knowledge help us to overcome the disasters of nature in a certain amount of time? Or does human's knowledge assist the nature to destroy the human culture over time?
The photos I use in this picture are:
Here is the way I do it:
1. First, create a new document in Photoshop.
2. Open the Stormy Sea picture. Select the sky with Rectangular Marquee tool and drag it to the new document. And rescale it.
3. Open the Earth Crack picture. Select the ground with and drag it to the new document. And rescale it.
3. Add adjustment layers of Hue/Saturation, Photo Filter, and Color Balance as clipping mask to make the color of the ground look more suitable to the sky.
4. Open the Book picture, select the book out and drag it to the new document. And rescale it.
5. To make some shadow under the book, create a new layer, and put it under the Book's layer. Use a black brush to brush the ground area around the book. And the Burn tool to brush the area on the side of the page.
6. Since the book looks too yellow for the whole environment, I add two adjustment layer (Hue/Saturation and Photo Filter) as clipping mask to adjust the book's color.
7. To add the sea onto the page, I select the sea from the Stormy Sea picture and drag it on top of the book, and resize it. Change the Opacity of the layer as 40%, so you can see where the edges of the page are, and select the page out.
8. Make a layer copy after selecting the page. Remove the visibility of the previous layer. And make the current layer Opacity as 100%. Then, liquify the middle part of the sea layer to make it blend in with the book's shape.
9. Open the Hour Glass picture, select the hour glass, drag it on top of the new document, and rescale it. Use the Eraser Tool to erase the lower part of the hour glass, so it looks more like in to the sea. Also erase the glass with a light opacity brush, so you can see through the sky and sea in the back.
10. To make the hour glass look more suitable for the environment, add adjustment layers (Hue/Saturation and Color Balance) as clipping mask to adjust the color of the hour glass.
11. Make a comp layer. In order to the lighting of everything consistent, apply the Dodge Tool to lighten the area that the light shines on, and the Burn Tool to darken the area that supposed to be shadow.
12. Make a copy of the layer. Fix the rest of the highlight areas with the Burn Tool. Also add a vignette with Lens Correction.
13. Add some Color Fill layers, Gradient Map layer, and Curve Adjustment layer to enhance the colors of the whole picture.
14. Sharpen the whole picture, so it has more dramatic feeling to it.
DONE:
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