Snow Queen

This lesson we'll learn how to create an effect of artificial hair, work with textures and layers, create shadows and highlights and also represent flowery ornaments.

Open the girl's picture: File – Open (ctrl+o)



Mark out the background along the contour, using Polygonal Lasso Tool and delete it with Edit – Cut (ctrl+x)



Take now Sponge Tool to decolorize the girl's picture except her scarf on her neck. Increase then the layer's brightness, applying Image – Adjustments – Curves (ctrl+m).



Change the scarf's color on blue one: Image – Adjustments – Hue/Saturation (ctrl+u)



Create now a new layer: Layer – New – Layer and make use of Brush Tool to paint the eyes in the same color of the scarf.



Change the layer's type on Overlay and combine it with the previous one: Layer – Merge Down (ctrl+e). Then increase the picture's size, using Crop Tool. Create a new layer now for the background and place it out lower then the girl's layer. Paint it after that in a neutral color, applying Paint Bucket Tool.



Open now on a new layer a certain texture (File - Open).



Choose Magic Wand Tool and mark out a certain part of this texture for copying it: Edit – Copy (ctrl+c). Insert it on a new layer and get back to the processed picture: Edit – Paste (ctrl+v)



Insert a texture's part on different layers, changing their colors also (Hue/Saturation)



Then finish the eyes' make up on a new layer, using for this the Brush Tool and Filter – Blur – Motion Blur.



Change the layer's type on Overlay.