Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulation can be used to create a concept for games and films. Using only photoshop and some images from google you can create your own ideas.
I went back to this key lessons as a review to my old skills. And I found it relaxing tweaking Hue, Saturation, Levels and painting on Photoshop.
Here I list down some important steps.
1. The thinking process of creating a concept or an idea. 2. Sketching the idea using gathered inspirational images. 3. Masking and blending elements of the composition. 4. Concept creation with rule of thirds. 5. Painting light and shadows with athmospheric effects.
Adjusting lighting, saturation and color to match and blend all the the images together. 6. Draw and pait light and shadows on the composition.
Masking methods
1. Levels-Using the channel of the image and tweaking the levels to get a
pure black and white foreground and background.
2. Painting with Overlay blend- paint white, without affecting the black color.
3. Mask's Select & Mask feature- use the refine edge tool to refine edges.
3. Filter sky- sky part on the image is ai selected by photoshop.
4. Blending option-Hiding dark pixels
5. Layer mask- brushing off uneeded areas of the image.