The Outcome...!!

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:

Making of calender - Fong Fong [ January ]

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January

JANUARY 

Preview Final Work

Step 1

Load a beach as a background.

Step 2

Erase the Starfish and use the Healing Brush Tool to make the Beach look like same.

Step 3

Choose a river image and crop a part of the water. 

Cut and paste the part that have choose.

Place the water onto the file. Use Brush Tool to smooth the edge as below.

Step 4

Load the music adjustment you want. 

Cut and paste the violin image onto the document.

Step 5

 Noise to the violin and get ready for the water splashing effect later on. 

       Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and apply the following setting:

The effect after noise the violin. Place it in the suitable location.

Step 6

Now we can paint some water splashing effect around text. 

Create a new layer called “water splash” , choose some brushes from the set and paint around the violin,

 as shown below: 

Make sure when you paint the water splashing effect, use a combination of big and small sized brushsets, also adjust the flow and opacity of the brush, DO NOT just use one setting for the whole thing.

    Keep adding more water splashing around the text.

     Step 7

       Now we will make the water splash around the Violin sharpen a bit. 

                             To do this, duplicate the water splash layer, group the several layers of the water splash, then

             right-click to choose "merge group" option. 

Violin has been choose for January.

Final as below: