Light In The Forest Photo Effect

In this tutorial, we will use these stocks below:

Photo 1:

Photo 2:

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Use any cutting tool to cut the lady out of background

Then move the model to Photo 2

Select the layer of Photo 2, go to Layer --> New Adjustment Layer --> Color Balance and do as the picture below:

Continue to go to Layer --> New Adjustment Layer --> Hue/Saturation

You will get the result like this:

Use Dodge Tool to make the sunshine look clearer

You will get the result like this:

Continue to draw some dark areas for the picture by using Burn tool like the picture below

Press Shift + Ctrl + E then go to Filter --> Sharpen --> Sharpen

Go to Layer --> New Adjustment Layer --> Hue/Saturation

Go to Layer --> New Adjustment Layer --> Color Balance

Finally, you can add more other details to make the picture looks better

This is my final result:

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Download the star brush used in this tutorial here.