Manipulate a Scene Photo of a Sweet Doggie with your Own Hand..

In this Photoshop tutorial we will make photo manipulation. We will transform photography with cat to still life painting and add it to photo frame, so we will get painting scene photo manipulation. We will use few clip arts, blending modes and filters to create this photoshop effect.

Final Image Preview

Necessary details:

1.Step

At first open your image. We will use this interesting image with cat.

2.Step

At first duplicate this layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. You will get black and white layer, again duplicate this balck and white layer and go to Image > Adjustments > Invert. Change blending mode to Color Dodge. And last manipulation with this layer: go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur. Set radius to 2-3 px and change blending mode to Luminosity.
Result:

3.Step

Now we need to merge two uppers layer and change blending mode to Luminosity. You can see that our painting now is little bit more colorful.

4.Step

After we change Blending mode, we need to add some artistic filters.We will use Fresco filter. To Fresco filter add Brush size:2; Brush details:8; Texture:1;

5.Step

So, we create painting, now we need to add some manipulations. Open image with painting frame, delete all unnecessary details and add to this image our original image with cat.

6.Step

Duplicate frame layer and add Gaussian blur filter (Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur), radius 2-3px. Delete blur from frame. And add to painting frame our cat painting.

7.Step

Now we need add some clip art to our image. At first add color palette. To layer with color palette add layer style: Drop shadow

8.Step

Looks nice, but we must add painter who will create this art works. We will add painter hand.

9.Step

We want make our painter hand more interesting, so we will add color tube cap. After you add color tube cap, add it to hand and delete all unnecessary details.

10.Step

Now we need make our tube cap color same as painter hand. So go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Set Saturation to -60; Lightness = +20. And also to hand we need add some Hue/Saturation parameters. Add Lightness +10. Now you can merge both layers and also use blur tool if you need merge hand and cap more.

11.Step

To make image more colorful, we will colorful color that ooze from hand. To do that, take Sponge tool; set mode to Saturate and Flow=100% and colorful color that ooze

12.Step

After we colourful ooze color, we now must change color on brush. To do that, we select brush. I will use Lasso tool. Now go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and add realistic color.

13.Step

And the last step. Create new layer and fill it with black color. And layer mask to it and take Gradient tool. Set Foreground to Transparent gradient and draw few time, so we will see our image. So here is our result. We make pretty interesting photo manipulation. I hope you like this photoshop tutorial.