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Photo Effects ›› Decorating Your Photo From Scratch
 
Create a new document (800x650 px)

Open a photo that you want to decorate, in this tutorial I used this photo:



Move that photo to the new document. Press Ctrl + J to duplicate this layer and use Free Transform > Flip Horizontal. You'll get this:



Open this texture, move this texture to document and put its layer over the model layer, set blend mode: softlight:



Choose Brush Tool and select:



Apply brush several time to the picture to get a result like this: (remember to choose foreground color #D89A53):



Open this photo



Use Magnetic Lasso Tool to cut it (Feather = 1px).



Drag the flower to your main document. Press Ctrl + J to duplicate it. Use Transform and arrange like this:



Add more text, duplicate them and decrease the opacity



Create a new layer. Choose airbrushes and apply like this:



Go to Filter > Distort > Twirl:



Press Ctrl + F for Twirl-repeating until the picture becomes this:



Create a new layer then choose Gradient Tool:



Drag a straight line then set its opacity to 50% with blend mode: Color burn. You'll get this:



Choose this brush :



and apply them to the picture:



Press Shift + Ctrl + E to merge all layer together. Press Ctrl + J to duplicate.
Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur:



Set blend mode softlight and opacity 50%.



This is the final result:



CLICK HERE to download brushes used in this tutorial
 
 
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Amit Khemka amitca02@gmail.com said on 2009-12-19 09:12:05
how to move photo to new document ??