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Hi, this is Joshua from Greater Than Gatsby. This was a really popular image on our Facebook
page. It's actually of my beautiful wife but everybody really wanted to know how I created
the fog effect. I'm actually going to go through the few easy steps it took me to edit that
image and show you guys how to recreate it.
In this edit, I used actions from our Carving Tree Collection. I'm going to go ahead and
show you guys the first step which is running a color base and I using Dramatic Color Base.
I'm going to go ahead and click play. This is just a little too much on this image so
I'm going to take the overall action ppacity down to 70%. It's also a little bit too much
color since I'm going for a moodier edit. I'm going to turn the Dramatic Color Boost
layer off. I'm also going to take Dramatic Darken and increase the opacity from 20% to
40%. I really like the foundation that this action's given the image.
The next thing that I want to do is add a little bit of blur to the foreground and maybe
even a touch to the background but I'm going to go ahead and flatten my image. When I use
any of our blur actions, I just like to do it on a fresh background layer so the two
actions don't compete with each other. Now that that's flattened, I'm going to come down
here to Soft Dreamy Blur. This blurred the entire image. I want to bring the details
of my subject and the chair back so what I'm going to do is grab this White Layer Mask,
set my foreground color to black, and grab my brush tool. I'm going to go ahead and remove
the blur from the chair and my wife. When you do this you want your brush opacity to
be at 100%, which it is, so it takes everything off. You don't want to leave any of the blur
on your subject. I'm just going through and doing this quickly; in a real photo that I'm
going to print out I might take a little bit more time but I'm going to go ahead and just
clean this up a touch.
Everything is blurred evenly and I don't want that either because then you get unnatural
looking. I'm going to reduce my brush opacity to put it at 32% and I'm just going to take
off patches of this blur. That gives us a much more natural effect. The last step to
this edit is creating the fog. I'm actually going to do that by coming up and selecting
the Earthy Haze Brush, click play. I'm not going to run just one layer as you see here,
I'm actually going to select it and duplicate it to where there's four different actions.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to use these to actually layer the fog on top of each other
using the layer mask. This one has a black layer mask so I'm going to make sure that
my foreground color is set to white. I've got my brush tool, I'm going to come in here,
I'll keep my brush opacity at 32%, and I'm just going to paint on a little bit of fog.
For this next layer, I'm going to reduce the brush size and the opacity and paint it on
a little bit thicker in the middle and then add a few pops here and there. I'll do something
a little different for this middle layer
and I'll change this up one more time. All right, now that we've got four layers of fog
I'm actually going to come and maybe adjust the opacity in a few of these layers. That
one was a little strong; I may actually bring this one up a touch.
I really like the effect that gave me. Now I will go back and I will show you the before
and the after. The before and the after. Thank you guys so much for checking out this tutorial
video.