Concept Art - Photobashing

Hue Saturation tool  @2:18 eyedropper select. Adjustment layer and masks to apply on top of layers. To adjust colours and values

Blending modes @4:27 - also lasso select and set to normal. Apply adjustment layer

Transform tool and perspective grid @5:11

Masks lasso tool erase (black) to reappear (white) @6:27. Tool presets for brushes.  

Press Alt key and hover pen above tablet to turn lasso into organic non-straight lasso tool.

 Link/unlink tool moves layer and mask independently

Gradient tool to add depth @8:52 Transparency setting at approx 30%

Tool presets @11:16 easy access to pre-set brushes. Un-tick include colour

Match colour @8:59 Place image colours to be referenced from. Image >Adjustments>Match Colour

Colour dodge @ 11:52. Soft airbrush, then type - brush blending mode colour dodge. Creates blown highlights. Set at 30% opacity

Come up with mood plan, for how I want the viewer to feel when looking at the image. e.g neon, seedy, full of life

Start with 3000 x 3000 pixels - resolution 72

Low horizon or high not centred

Indicate perspective - very rough

Dark values in foreground

Use lasso tool to rough in crisp shapes

Use thirds

Select focal point and use shapes, with a light value in that area

Gradient tool to shade in highlight light bloom

Use navigator panel

Sketch quickly

Lasso tool shapes and use radial gradient tool to silhouette objects and pull them away from the background

Crop

Preserve image (image size) preserve details. Increase image resolution to 300 change to inches - to get ready for print

Merge layers

Hash out perspective grid - mirror

Place over concept sketch

Scale

Place reference image over

Line up vanishing points

Bring in vertical ruler to make sure straight

Select blending modes for new layer. Select which ones.

Find reference e.g bladerunner night cyber punk and paste over the top

Take base thumbnail and match colour

Use hue saturation tool and slide and see for happy accidents - mask out areas. Don't put in too much

Bring in more references. Transform tool to shape and scale to perspective

Go for it. Happy accidents

Contrast foreground midground background - otherwise image becomes flat. 

Google sunsets and layover

Further distance more light polution

Heads of people level with horizon - as if picture taken at ground level

Eyedropper for rim light

For reflection - flatten layers, reflect, motion blur in filter tab, blending mode lighten and then mask it in for quick reflections on the ground

Add detail, paint over top of photo ref to remove feeling of photo. Eyedropper sample from the rest of the image and take various light sources and add to objects

Visually captivating area foreground right and background left

Brushes https://www.deviantart.com/88grzes/art/My-Brushes-505743662

Royalty free photobash images https://www.photobash.org/

Adobe Colour Wheel https://color.adobe.com/create