Video Transcript

Hi, my name is Jimmy Lick from Draw Writer's TV Productions, and today I want to teach you how to make a ghosted landscape in Photoshop. The first thing that we're going to do is actually open up a default image that we have already saved. So we're going to go up to file, go down to open and then I have my photo right there. As you can see this is a pretty nice photo, you know, shot in the daytime. We'll try to make this as dark and ominous as we possibly can. The first thing I want to do is control J, just to duplicate this layer and that way we don't mess up the original. The next thing I'm going to do is make a series of clouds. You can just render these using the filters. The first thing I want to do is create a new layer and I'll make sure that I'm on black and white here with my gradients, and I'm just going to go up to filter, go down to render and go over to clouds. The next thing you want to do is actually change the blend mode of these clouds to soft light. So just go up, make sure that you're on that layer, go up to soft light and it gives us kind of a cloudy image there. What we'll do is duplicate that again and that gives us a little bit more clouds on there and we'll both make, we'll make masks for both of these. We'll come back to that later. Again we're going to duplicate the original layer and now we are going to render this image as clouds again but it's going to be the difference clouds and what this is doing is it's inverting the image so all he lights are now darks and all the darks are now lights and this gives us just an eerie look that is kind of what we're going for. The last step that we're going to do is actually make an adjustment layer, make it black and white and you can see how it really contrasts in the image and we will bring down one layer of the clouds just to give it a different look and now we're going to mask out the grass that has clouds on it. So you're going to go over to your brush tool, make sure it's black. The next step you want to do is just kind of take your brush tool and at free will, kind of go around and take out some of the clouds that are on that grass, just slightly stroke on the bottom edge of your photo. The last thing you want to do is kind of add a filter, a photo filter. That gives it more of a yellow tint, you can really play with this and make it any way you want to. So go down to adjustment layer and go up to photo filter. I'm going to change the color to a darker yellow, that should be good, press okay. The next thing you want to do is just play with the density on this. You're going to need a lot just because it's a black and white photo so you can bring that up right about there is good and we're pretty much done with that. And the last thing you want to do is go up to file, save as and rename your photo. That's pretty much it. I'm Jimmy Lick from Draw Writer's TV Productions. Thank you for watching.