Mystical Fairy

• Download the following from Inkday
  • Prom Picture
  • Flower
• Download the following from Gimp-savey
  • butterfly wings

1. Open the butterfly image in Photoshop.2. Duplicate the background. Select the Magic Wand set to New selection, tolerence = 65, anti-alias checked, contiguous= unchecked. Click on the center of the butterfly body. This should select all the black part of the wings of the butterfly, plus a little of the shadow.

Select the lasso tool and set it to subtract from selection and encircle where the shadows were, outside the wings.

Click the add layer mask button on the bottom of the layers panel.

2. Duplicate this layer and turn the copy off. We will use it for the mask selection. Right click on the mask image on the layers palette and select "set selection to layer mask" from the menu.

3. Insert a new layer by clicking the "create a new layer" icon on the bottom of the layer palette Click Edit=> Stroke. Set the stroke to 2 pixel center, black, normal., 100%

4. While the black part of the butterfly are selected, click back on the mask image on the butterfly copy2 layer. click Edit=>fill. Set the fill to 50% gray.

5. Right click on the layer mask and "set selection to layer mask". Click select=>inverse. Use the magic wand set subtract from selection, tolerence of 65, santi-alias checked and contiguous checked.

Click outside the butterfly in all selected areas until only selections inside the butterfly remain.

6. Click on the mask image on the layer to insure the mask is active. Click Edit=> Fill. Set to WHITE. normal, 100%.

Click on the actual butterfly image of copy 2 on the layer. Click Image=>Adjust=>Posterize. Set the posterize to levels = 6. Click Select=> inverse..

7. Click Edit=> Fill.

• Set the fill to Pattern
• select the pattern called nebula
• mode = normal
• opacity = 100%.

Click Select=> Deselect.

8. Click Image=> Adjust=> Hue Saturation

• hue = -14
• Saturation = 100
• Lightness = +50
• colorize = unchecked.

9. Link the stroke layer(layer1) to the backgorund copy 2. Click Layer=> merged linked.

10. Click edit=> Transform=> Scale. Set the height and width to 70%.

11. Use the lasso tool set to New selection, 0 feather, anti-alias to select the left half of the butterfly by clicking from the middle top of the butterfly head and drag around the left side of the butterfly to the notch between the wings on the bottom.

12. Click Edit=> Transform=> Rotate. Move the center pivot point to the center of the head of the butterfly, and rotate the left wing clockwise 30 degrees. Deselect all.

13. Click back on the background layer. Open the image of the flower. Use your move tool to drag a copy onto your butterfly image. Check show bounding boxes and scale the flower to the full canvas size. Using your elliptical marquee set to a feather of 50 pixels to select an oval in the center of the flower that mostly covers the fairy wings. Click image=>adjust=> hue saturation. Set the hue to -52, saturation to +100, and lightness to +44.  

Click back on your top layer.

14. Open your image of  the prom dress. Click Image=>image size. Set the image resolution to 144 first, then set the width to 207 and the height to 276 (constrain proportions will assign the height.)

15. Drag a copy of this image onto your canvas using the move tool. On your main canvas use a paint brush set to black color and a number 9 hard brush to round out the head by filling in the missing hair.

16. Use the magnetic lasso tool to outline the image and click add layer mask to the layer.  Right click on the mask and apply the mask. Duplicate this layer.

17. While on the prom image duplicate layer, click right on the image of that layer, not the mask and click filter=> texture=> Grain. Set the grain to the following:

• intensity =80
• contrast = 60
• grain = speckle.

Set the layer to Color Dodge.

18. Link both layers of the prom image and orient in the middle of the wings. Link the wings to the prom images. Click image=> transform=>scale. Set the height and width to 65 % and move your image into the center of the flower.

19. Add a layer on top of all your layers. Hit your D key. Fill the layer with your paint bucket. Set the layer to screen. Click Filter=> render=> lens flare. Set the flare to

• brightness = 140
• Lens type = 50-300 mm prime.
• center just right and down from center.

BUBBLES:

20. Insert a new layer. Select the rectangular marquee tool set to a fixed width of 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels high. Click in the image.

21. Click Edit=> Fill and fill with 50% gray.

22. Click Filter=> Distort=> Polar coordinates set to Polar to rectangular.

23. Click Edit=> transform=> flip vertical.

24. Click filter=> distort=> Polar coordinates set to rectangular to polar.

26. Select the elliptical marquee set to a fixed size option of 100 by 100 pixels and click select=> inverse. Hit your backspace key. Set the layer to screen mode and 80% opacity.

27. Duplicate this layer 5 times. Use the move tool with bounding boxes to scale and move the bubbles to places around the fairy as if she is creating them.