Beautiful Lighting Effect

Before:

After:

1. Use lasso tool to select her mouth .

Then press Ctrl +Alt+D and do as picture below:

Go to Image -> adjustment-> variation : choose Midtones and arrange the Fine and coarse lower . You will see 6 box :yellow , red , blue , magenta,green ,cyan. Click in red and yellow

The result:

2. Select all her skin , only skin .You don't need to make it perfectly, regularly is ok

Feather selection: Ctrl +Alt+D : 50

Press Ctrl +M and do as picture below:

3. Select the background and deselect the balloon:

Feather selection: (Ctrl+Alt+D): 100

Ctrl +U and do as this picture:

4. Create a new layer: choose Overlay in layer box

Use this brush: color black and white

You can hide the selection, press Ctrl +H

5. Use soft brush , opacity 50% : to make her shirt lighter

Use star brush to make her shirt sparkling , and make her pearl necklace more shining

6. Create a new layer , choose soft light in layer box .

Use this brush to paint around the background .Color (# 2FA9B4) opacity 50%

7. Create a new layer : choose any star brush you like to draw the background like the space

Remember , use eraser to delete any star into the balloon

8. Duplicate layer 1 and choose Soft light in layer box , opacity 50% . The picture is more better.

Click here to download all brushes used for this tutorial.