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CREATE A DYNAMIC ROOFTOP BASKETBALL COURT WITH

A BEAUTIFUL SKYLINE THAT COMBINES AMAZING COLOURS

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P

ut your newfound knowledge of selections

into practice with this tutorial. In it, you will

work with a 3D model to create a scene on

the rooftop of a city building. You will learn

how to cut out and manipulate various stock images

and composite them onto a sunset background.

You’ll use the perspective of the city to place your

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court in between the surrounding buildings. Photoshop

is really important for this piece because it allows you

to integrate 3D renders with stock photos perfectly.

This creates a magical and killer visual style for the

final image. Because this piece is for Advanced

Photoshop, we created the court in 3D with an Adobe

flair to make it even more special.

01

BEGIN THE COMPOSITION

Open a new document (Cmd/Ctrl+N), then

grab the 3D image provided on FileSilo (‘court_3d.

psd’). Place it in the document on top of your

background (download Shutterstock image

117587224 for this). The important thing is to define

the location of your light source so it follows the

perspective. That way you can build the rest of the

scene with the perfect angle and light.

02

ADD MORE BUILDINGS

Cut out the secondary buildings

(‘secondary_buildings.jpg’) using the Path tool. This

tool allows you to cut specific buildings, complete the

first mask and then go back to the mask to add more

details and integrate the two photos. When done, use

a brush at 20% and paint inside your mask using the

selection that you made before. This way you can

isolate it and just paint in the area that you want to

integrate. To invert your selection, hit Cmd/Ctrl+

Shift+I. Duplicate this layer and set your blend mode

to Multiply at 28%, duplicate again and desaturate

the image. This time, set it to Multiply at 24%.

FROM BLOCKING TO

INTEGRATED

WORK IN

PROGRESS

Progress 1: Select the images

Progress 2: Retouch the scene

Progress 3: Final colour grading

HUGO CENEVIVA AND

HENRIQUE CASSAB

http://www.elevendy.com

OUR EXPERTS

Elevendy is a California-based

creative support studio, passionate

about retouching and integrating 3D

and photographs in order to create

amazing images.

On FileSilo.co.uk/bks-609, you

will find source files needed to

re-create the tutorial. You will also

need to download some from

Shutterstock. ID numbers have

been provided.

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