Digital Painting in Photoshop: Balloonatic

In this course master Adobe Photoshop artist Uli Staiger shows you how to create an image straight out of a dream: a dancer on a tightrope over the ocean, with the rope anchored to a mountain on one side and on the other side held up only by balloons. Uli shows how to use Photoshop to prepare the seascape background, then one by one add the dancer, the rope, and the balloons. Along the way you'll make all the necessary adjustments to turn the various pieces into a seamless, unified whole. The tutorials are presented in a series of simple, easy-to-follow lessons that give you plenty of room to add your own artistic touches to the final product.

Topics include:

Creating the seascape
Making colors and contrast match
Adding the mountains
Blending images with a mask
Creating a new brush tip
Improving light and shadows
Adding a dancer and balloons