Process in Photoshop
The following steps in Photoshop were used to create the composite below. (Basic Lightroom edits were applied prior to Photoshop process.)
2. Drag in 'girl' and 'background' and 'moon'
3. Use pen tool to select girl and railing (roughly select around hair leaving excess room)
4. Load selection
5. Inverse selection
6. Create layer mask, select brush, paint over inversed selection using 'black' brush
7. Open 'girl' as a new document in photoshop and use the following method to select hair:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoAXwilIedw&feature=related)
8. Drag this selection into the main working document
9. Using a layer mask on the previous layer, get rid of excess 'blue' background around hair from previous layer
10. Use method described above to select in between the girl's arms and dress, do this on separate layers
11. Duplicate 'girl' layer, filter, unsharp mask to sharpen eyes. Use layer mask to rid of everything but eyes
12. Increase contrast on girl only using mask and adjustment layer - contrast & brightness
13. On the 'sky' layer, use clone tool to get rid of horizon
14. On new layer, filter-render-clouds. Then filter-blur-motion blur - left to right angle. Lower opacity of this layer. Then use mask to rid of excess clouds. Move layer up to top third of image. duplicate layer and move clouds around to make the clouds look realistic.
15. Duplicate layers and use layer mask and clone tool to refine hair and get rid of stray hairs.
16. On a duplicate of the 'girl' layer add a hue/saturation adjustment layer and lower magenta on right hand. Using layer mask refine that selection so that it is just her arm that was changed.
Original Images (CR2s)
Lightroom Edited Images (Exported as TIFFS)
FINAL COMPOSITE
