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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
If you’re looking to create a really nice photo manipulation, often you will have to combine several photos and
apply a few effects to get your desired look. In today’s tutorial I decided to combine a few photos that I took
while I was traveling to create a devastating tornado consuming everything in its path. Okay, let’s get started!
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To create images like this, I recommend you to gain a bit of knowledge of perspective, focal point and
vanishing point etc. It helps a lot while bringing together various images into one final plate. Okay, let’s get
started.
Step 1First, create a new document in Photoshop and name it tornado. Create a layer and fill it with some color and
come up with a rough sketch of your composition.
Step 2
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Open up your images in Photoshop. Use the upper image for the sky and the lower one for the land.
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Step 3With the help of the Lasso tool and a 20 px feather cut out the sky and paste it into your tornado document.
Step 4Now that the sky is ready, our next job is to make the sky look cloudy.
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Step 5Make some adjustments the image’s Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation.
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Step 6Use the clone stamp tool to help spread out the sky.
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Step 7Use the clone stamp tool to change the shade of the clouds.
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Step 8Open the second image and select some portions of the grass and vegetation using the Lasso tool (5 px
feather). I used multiple selections of the ground for my image.
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Step 9Now paste the vegetation fragments of my image then bring them together. Use the lasso tool to spread the
vegetation across your canvas.
Step 10Start selecting portions of the sky and play around with the brightness and contrast just to give it some
variation.
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Step 11Use the same technique with other parts of the image as per my sketch and change the shade of the clouds
in those areas.
Step 12At this point it’s time to start laying out the tornado.
Step 13Use the clone stamp tool to spread the tornado out in the selected area of the drawing.
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Step 14Repeat the same process for the other selected areas.
Step 15The dust can be created by cloning portions of the sky and by changing its shade.
Step 16Use the clone stamp tool to create a smooth transition between the various elements in the composition.
Step 17To enhance our image we now need to create a new adjustment layer with a black to transparent gradient.
Set the blending mode of this later to soft light. The purpose of this step is to enhance our image so that the
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upper edges look darker and that the viewer’s focus is directed to the center. Repeat this step in one more
layer if you want more variation in shading.
Step 18Now it is time to shade the outer areas of the composition. Do this by drawing a rectangle with the
rectangular marquee tool (with 0 px feather) in a new layer and fill it with black color. Use the lasso tool to cut
the layer as shown. After this, set the layer’s blending mode to ‘soft light’. The purpose of this step is to
darken some areas of the image to shift the focus towards the center.
Step 19Now let’s play around with some color variations. Make sure that, you do it in adjustment layers so that if you
don’t like it you can just delete the layer.
ConclusionThat’s it. I hope that this tutorial helped you learn a little about photo manipulation techniques. Good luck!
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Well i am the first ! For me it looks very real the effect ! Good tutorial , very useful material !
Thanks
Dont like the process
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Very nice effects. I love the sepia variation! Thanks!
Niiiiiice. I like the end result.
This is f-ing stupid
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Are you serious?! The process works!!!
Of course going over the process takes away from the magic of it, so you shouldn’t need to complain. If
there wasn’t a tut and just a pic, you would probably accept it and move on
April 9, 2010 at 9:00 am
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WOW!! simply stunning effect. great tutorial
What a great tutorial, might have a play at htis one over the weekend.
insane cool, thanks!!!
Here’s mine: http://homer8190.deviantart.com/art/Awesome-Twister-Effect-146025664
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That is really awesome dude
Cool stuff Aevion
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great looking results and looks pretty interesting from a quick look through. Thanks!
This actually looks really good. I can’t wait to work through this tutorial, it will give me
something to do during tomorrows 12 hour train ride.
Such a wonderful tutorial!
Brilliant! I didn’t expect you will create everything from scratch. Great job!
Thanks guys. I’ve made a bunch of epic destruction pieces… you can check them out here (http://
aevion.net/wallpapers/my-best-destruction-pieces/) if you want. Thanks again.
This is a well explained tut… great work Shardul!
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really an awesome tutorial thanks for sharing
Very nice tutorial. I like it,
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Amazing! wow :O
nice tut i like it and in the way to try
Very nice, I like it.
April 9, 2010 at 11:58 am
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It’s a brilliant effect. Wouldn’t have thought of doing it like the way you have but it works
very well
What do you mean by “Use the clone stamp tool to change the shade of the clouds.”? In
step 6? Can we go into a little more depth on steps 5 and 6?
I’m sorry for coming off as angry, but I just spent the past hour trying to figure this out, and
these directions are not detailed at all.
Okay thats a weird process, BUT a good one…
Great effect and great tutorial.
April 10, 2010 at 9:05 am
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well that is weird. usually i get several pictures that fit the scene and then blend them
together. there are a lot of cloning going on here but i will give it a try:-)
nice tut , really i like it
thx for sharing
None of the photos are coming through for me at all. They’re all broken.
That is so cool, an amazing photoshop mash-up. Looks like the END OF THE WORLD!!!!
First scene is very beautiful
The way you created that is awesome.
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nice effect.
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First scene is very beautiful
The way you created that is awesome.
nice effect.
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Need some estra work on the tale of the twister
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nice pict
April 17, 2010 at 12:35 am
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I mean, TAIL of the twister
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Very good tutorial, thanks.
Even though I’m usually able to pick out whether or not something was Photoshopped, this
looks quite real!
Brilliant!
Superb!
I like it very much. Very nice…
My only critic is that the middle part of the tornado looks quite drawn (not so real), like the
rest of it… but. good job.
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Is it a twister ??? anyway it is very evident that this is a conglomeration of couples photos
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Great! i like this
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