Ghost in the house Photoshop tutorial

Today we will be combining 2 images to make an interesting photo manipulation using photoshop. So lets start. 🙂
Sources:
CAT
HOUSE

Final image preview

STEP 1:

Open the house image. Drag the cat image above the house layer. Remove the background from the cat image. I did this by applying layer mask to the cat layer. Now your image looks like this.

In this image, u can see that while applying layer mask to the cat, the hair at the edges of the cat have also been erased(shown by arrows). We can fix it.

STEP 2:

Use smudge tool with strength around 35 % select dry brush as shown, and draw the fur at the edges of the cat.

STEP 3:

Now resize the cat. For the cat’s shadow, Duplicate the cat layer, fill it with a dark color than the ground, flip vertical and free transform it

Now apply Gaussian blur to the shadow layer of the cat and lower the opacity to 65% as shown.

STEP 4:

Now create a new layer, set it to soft light mode. Paint shadows using a low opacity brush on the cat’s legs and on the left side of the cat.

Step 5:

Create a new layer. Fill it with color 0684a3. Set this layer to soft light.

Step 6:

Create a new layer, set this to multiply mode. Paint with a pink color e278e6 on the area shown.

Step 7:

Apply color overlay to this pink layer.

Step 8:

Create a new layer, set this to overlay mode. Paint with a light orange color on the area shown.

Step 9:

Create a new layer, set this to soft light mode. Use a light blue color 1ef6cb and paint on the area shown.

Step 10:

Create a new layer, set to soft light mode. Paint with a brown color 3f3917 on the selected area shown below.

Step 11:

For the ghost, use a white color soft brush and click once in the house as shown.

Step 12:

Use smudge tool with a dry brush and smudge to form the ghost.

Step 13:

Reduce the opacity of the ghost layer to 50 %.

Step 14:

Create a new layer, set it to soft light mode. paint the cat’s eyes with a yellow color.

Step 15:

Apply photo filter.

Deep yellow-70 %.

Step 16:

Apply brightness/contrast.

Brightness is -18

contrast is 27

Step 17:

Apply hue saturation.

Hue 271

Saturation 57

Apply color overlay and gradient overlay to the hue saturation layer.

Step 18:

Now add layer mask to the hue saturation layer. I erased the hue saturation part on the house, ground and cat part. This removes the violet colors and shows the green colors.