Making of calender - Fong Fong [ February ]

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February

February

Preview Final Work

Step 1
Create a new document , leave the background layer colour as white. Load the Grass Land, use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to select a portion of the image.

Copy and paste the selection onto the template, name this layer as “Grass land” and resize it to fit the width, with roughly about half of the height.

Add the following two adjustment layer on top the grass land layer:

Curves

Black and White (Set blending mode to “Hard Light”)

and you will have he following effect

Step 2
Load the “River” stock image , use the the Lasso tool with a 20px feather, cut out the river portion of the image, and paste it on to our template.

Add the following Curves adjustment layer to it.

Step 3
Load the Sky 1 image , select the upper portion the image and copy it , name this new layer as “sky 1″.
Use the Warp Tool (Ctrl + T, then right-click to choose Warp) to drag the right bottom edge lower so it links with the grass texture.

Add the following mask to this Sky 1 layer:

Curves:

Black and White:

Color Balance:

Load the Sky 2 texture , copy and paste the entire image onto our template and put this layer above the previous Sky 1 layer. Resize and position it.

5 Rename this layer as “Sky 2″ and right-click the layer on the layer palette, choose “create clipping mask”, also erase the bottom edge on this sky 2 layer so it blends with the Sky 1 layer:

Merged Layer Sky 1 Sky 2 Curves 3 Black and white 2 color balance 1, and you will have the following effect.

Step 4

Load the “mountain”, select the lower portion of the image, copy and paste . Name the layer as “mountain” and put this layer under the “Merged layer″  (Resize the layer to a smaller size)

Add the following two adjustment layer to this mountain layer:

Curves

Colour Balance

the result will as below:

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Step 5

Load the “Lute” image, cut out the lute image from the background with using quick selction tool, and paste it.

Name this layer as “Lute” and put it above all previous layer, resize and position it.

Load a river, cut and paste the part that choose. Duplicate the part again and again, make it look like the lute is sink into the water.
And see the effect:

Add water splash using water splash brushes and duplicate the layer.
Name the layer as "Water splash 1" and "water splash 2".
And you will have this overall effect so far:

I further adjusted the text, and here is my final effect: