Ramin Hossaini (blog)

Making ‘Fairy Tales’

This time round, I tried to take more screenshots

Getting the different pieces:

I had this from a trip to the Etosha National Park earlier this year:

Plus some stock-photography:

Masking and positioning

There are different ways you can get this step done. You could use the pen-tool too for example. I just chose to brush out parts I didn't need.

Preparing the background

Converted the image to black & white:

Added some clouds - just because I can

And came up with this...

Putting it together

This was the hardest step really. I try to re-draw light in the image and try to draw the attention of the viewer to certain areas of the picture

The mask resulted in some hard-edges, so I gaussian blurred it a little

Added noise:

And gave it a cyan-tint

Some magic

I used a couple of brushes to make this

The final image

And a little bit of tweaking later...

Related posts:

1. Surrealism “Propaganda”
2. Photoshop tutorial: Creating detailed-masks from channels