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Turn Everything To Gold


Step 1: Create a new document & fill it with #000000.

Go to Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise to make twinkling stars

Set amount 14% and tick Gaussian and Monochromatic

Go to Image -> Brightness/Contrast and set option:

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Step 2: Open the picture below

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Use any cutting tool to cut the tower out of background (in this tutorial I used Extract tool)

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Step 3: Now we will use some techniques to turn the tower into gold

Press Ctrl + B to open Color Balance, set something like this:

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Press Ctrl+L to open Levels :

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At this state, the result will look like this :

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Repeating that step with 2 another images:

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The result:

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Step 4: Create a new layer then put it over layer background.

Use this brush (download brush)

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Apply those brushes to the picture and you will get the result like this:

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Step 5: Use Custom Shape Tool to make a ribbon to hide lacunas at the bottom.

You can add some other details to make your work looks better

Here is my final result

Turn Everything To Gold



Author's URL: Photoshop8x.com
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comments ely21 June 07, 2010 says:
this is helpful... it must be much better to make it look metallic and a little bit shadowy.... could you try to work with that some other times?...
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