Create an Intense Fallen Angel Composition in Photoshop

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Create A Dramatic Fallen Angel Scene

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Resources

• Model
• Desert
• Sky
• Wings
• Pagan symbol

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Step 1

Create a new document with size of 1000×1000 px and fill it with white (or any color you like). Open desert stock. Use Retangular Marquee Tool to choose the ground part and use Move Tool (V) to drag it into our white canvas. Press Cmd/Ctrl+T to resize and rotate it as shown below:

You can see that I created a lean angle to get more visual impact.

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Step 2

Click the second button at the bottom of Layer Pallete to add mask to desert layer. Use black brush with hardness about 10-15% to erase the hard edge of the desert. The aim is to achieve a soft edge so it will be blended better with background. You can see how I did it on layer mask and result on picture:

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Step 3

To create some depth for the picture choose Filter-Blur-Gassian Blur and pick radius as 2 px:

I just want to blur the foreground so on Smart Filter mask I used soft black brush to reveal the rest:

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Step 4

There is a part which does not look good on the ground so hit Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N to make a new layer above the desert one with Clipping Mask:

Active Clone Tool (S) and use it to remove the part indicated in a previous screenshot:

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Step 5

I used an adjustment layer to darken the desert. On clone layer, go to Layer-New Adjustment Layer-Curves:

On Curves layer mask I used soft black brush with opacity about 10-15% and 40-45% to reduce the dark effect on the top of the ground (desert):