Photoshop Creative Issue

Combine multiple filters for a fantasy fire and ice world

Add special effects to portraits

Create the snow

01

Create a new layer, set Foreground colour

to black, place on the top of the layers

and paint it (Alt+Del). Apply Filter>Noise>Add

Noise, Amount: 90%, Distribution: Gaussian and

tick Monochromatic. Use Levels (109, 1,00, 255),

change blend mode to Screen and apply

Filter>Blur>Motion Blur, Angle: -45° and

Distance: 26px. Finally, add Filter>Artistic>Dry

Brush, set to 2, 1, 3.

Add some filters

02

To make the woman’s skin softer, use

Filter>Blur>Surface Blur, set to 70, 5. To

add realism to the ice side, duplicate the

background, merge it and apply Filter>Artistic>

Plastic Wrap, set to 3, 10, 14 and make a mask to

erase the unnecessary parts. Finally duplicate

the background again and add the Diffuse Glow

filter (Filter>Gallery>Distortion>Diffuse Glow),

set to 6, 3, 16.

Make the fire

03

Make a new layer, use the Pen Tool (P),

draw a flame shape, go to

Filter>Render>Flame, set Width to 70 and change

blend mode to Screen. Duplicate all layers from

the fire side, merge it, apply Filter>Distort>Glass)

and set to 10, 12 - Frosted Texture. Create a new

layer, set Foreground colour to black,

Background to white, apply Filter>Render>Clouds

and change the blend mode to Screen.

“To make the

woman’s skin

softer, use Filter>

Blur>Surface Blur”

FILTERS THAT WILL

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