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Photo Effects ›› The Ocean Girl Photo Effect
 
The final result of this tutorial:



The first you open the picture below:



Use Elliptical Marquee Tool to make a selection with Feather=10px like this:



Press Shift+Ctrl+I to inverse the selection
Go to Filter -> Blur -> Radial blur, set something like this:



You will get:



Press Ctrl+M to open Curves, set like this:



The picture looks lighter now



Press Ctrl+U, choose Cyans in Edit part and do as shown below



Press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer, continue to open Hue/Saturation, choose Yellow in Edit part



Create a new layer, choose magenta color: #EC008C, zoom out the picture, use soft brush to decorate the lady's lip, change blend mode of layer to Softlight, opacity 80%

At this state, the result will look like this



Now we are going to retouch the skin of lady, press Ctrl+B to open Color Balance



You will get:



Open the picture below:



Use Elliptical Marquee Tool to make a selection with feather=10px like this



And then move the selection to your work, change blend mode to Screen, opacity=80%

Ctrt+J to duplicate layer, you can use Free Transform tool to resize it



Cut fishes out and then move them to your work as shown below:







Continue to open these pictures, move them to your work then change blend mode to Softlight, opacity=40%
You can use Layer mask or brush to remove texture's parts over the model



Use pentool to make a curve like this:



Hit right click, choose Stroke path (remember to set the size of brush is 1)



Set Outer Glow of layer curve



Duplicate layer curve 2,3 times, you will get:



Create a new layer, use brush 3-9 px to make some circles in your work like this:



Shift+Ctrl+E to merge all layers then press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer
Go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian blur



Select "layer copy", change its blend mode to Softlight and opacity=50%

And you get the final result:

 
 
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secured vias brandi@gmail.com said on 2008-08-18 15:08:41
Very Nice Site! Thanx!
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K.Mony monyk67@gmail.com said on 2008-10-01 05:10:03
every thing is fine and come out well. But you are not showing how the water drop made? I know that is also separate image or any other from filter.
LIZ hernandezsuzzette@yahoo.com said on 2009-06-26 19:06:25
HUMM?IM TRYING TODOWNLOADED IT BUT I CANT,WHY?