| Create a mistique fairy tale look Easy technique to improve your picture if your camera doesn`t want to take it. This tutorial can turn an ordinary picture into a mistique fairy tale picture you always dreamt of. It is quite easy, so good luck. |
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Recently i`ve been in Venice where i took several pictures. | ||
| I didn`t have a really good camera so i had to adjust my pictures using Photoshop. Let me show you a nice and eay trick to improve and give to your picture a nice fairy tale look. This is the original picture. You can say: 'Hey, it`s not so bad' but there is always room for better.  |
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This is how my canvas looks like before i start to do anything | ||
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Step 1: Duplicate layer (layer -> duplicate) | ||
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Next step is to add some Gaussian Blur (Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur) | ||
 I`ll set the gaussian blur value to 2.7. This is how it looks now:  |
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Now set the layer`s opacity to 60% (layers -> layer style -> blending options) The opacity can go from 30% to 60% and it determines how softness of the picture |
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On the duplicated layer add a layer mask | ||
 Then set the soft brush tool with at least 50 % of opacity and black color and then brush the details you want to sharpen  I used the brush to sharpen the first boat, the closest bricks and then let the image blurry as it goes deep in the picture  |
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One step away from the final picture. To make it real nice in terms of ligthing, i will use a gradiend like this and set it Overlay: |
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  So, let`s compare the 2 pictures: Original: ... and the final picture:  |
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