- Bonjour mesdames and messieurs,
and welcome to this special,
"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" tutorial series.
I did already two episode, episode one what we did is
we extracted different photos from the web,
I give all the link below this video,
I give you also my photos from the amazing Imperial dunes,
and we put everything together.
In episode two, we matched all the colors,
and now episode three the final,
that's where Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader.
No, that's when I gonna show you how to finish this photo.
(dramatic vocalizing)
So now, we need to definitely do some more work
to get a better result.
On the mountains, I'm gonna go here,
there's something weird that kind of, doesn't,
I don't like this little part here,
so that is on the foreground.
I can go on the mask of the foreground,
I can add a mask to the foreground
and take the famous B brush, remember the B brush?
The B brush, B brush, okay?
Make sure the hardness is 80%, make sure that opacity
is 100% and it's black, and I'm just gonna erase this.
Holding the shift key, remember you gotta hold the shift
key, you've got to hold the shift key.
And, voila!
Okay, I think that's just, is a little more clean.
Okay, another final touch I wanna do
mainly, it's gonna be mainly on Rey.
So the first thing I wanna do on her,
is I wanna add some shadows, okay?
So, but before we add the, well I wanna add some shadows,
so I'm gonna create, I'm gonna go to the Rey folder,
okay, and behind here, I'm gonna plus, okay and I'm
gonna put this in the back, all right,
I'm gonna call this shadows, Rey.
Okay.
And so let's create some shadows first,
and then I'm gonna add some dust and things to make her
in the thing, so that's gonna be kind of the tricky part.
So how to add some shadows, well the first thing I'm gonna
do is, I'm gonna select her by clicking Command
and on the mask, when you click Command or Control
and on the mask in Windows, you get back the selection
that we did earlier, okay?
Now, that selection, I'm gonna take this color here
and I'm, you see, I'm in the Color Picker and if you
go out of the color picker you get this little symbol,
I'm gonna take the darkest shadow I can find here, okay,
and I'm gonna fill that selection, you won't see it
because it's behind her for now, so I'm gonna go
to Edit, Fill, and I'm using the foreground color,
so you wanna go to foreground color and press OK.
Okay, so now I've filled that in, and I'm gonna press
Command + D or I can go to select or deselect Command + D,
okay, and now check this out, and by the way,
little trick, if you want to see what's on a layer,
you can hold on the Option key, boom,
and you can see what's on that layer,
and you can see on that layer we just have her
in brown and now I'm gonna try to do the shadows.
- Do.
Or do not.
There is no try.
- [Serge] Yes master.
I do it.
Okay, so Command + T and I'm gonna right click
and go to Distort.
And you take the middle heel and you just bring it down.
Voila and now you can bring it up and you see,
it forms like a shadow of her.
Now, shadows is supposed to be a little bit blurry
and it's supposed to fade away as it goes.
So there's different ways to do that.
First, I'm gonna lower the opacity of the shadow,
well first, no I am gonna lower the opacity,
of that shadow, so that it blends better, okay,
and then I'm gonna go here and I'm gonna take
this tool which is called the blur tool, okay?
And by the way if for some reason
you're missing a tool here,
you can go to Edit, Toolbar, and here is all of the tools.
I've already used all the tools but you can drag
and drop them from here to there,
or click on Restore Default and you should have
the blur tool.
So, the blur tool is this little thing.
I'm gonna blur this shadow, especially away from her,
okay, and you maybe don't see it, but as I brush,
it's blurring a little bit of shadow, okay?
Now maybe I can go, no it's doing its thing,
it's just doing it very light, so I'm brushing,
and brushing and brushing and I'm making the shadows
a little bit blurry.
So now what I wanna do is I wanna make this shadow fade
away like a shadow.
So I'm gonna create a mask on this,
take my brush, B for brush, I need a big brush,
I need a very soft brush.
Super soft.
(eewok purrs)
Yes, soft like that.
Lower the opacity.
Like that, 20%, make sure black is foreground,
so I'm painting this black at 20%, it's more light gray
than black, I'm painting on a mask and you see,
as I do that it's gonna whatever I paint
is gonna sort of fade away.
So I'm fading away the shadow like this.
Okay, that's pretty cool.
So already she looks like a little more there,
but now we need to get some sand on her shoes here.
So now, I'm gonna go on the Rey mask,
and I'm giving you a whole bunch of brushes,
so if you go to what you download
a "Star Wars" brush, free ABR.
You double click on it, you don't even have to relaunch
anything, you go back to, and now you go to brush,
B for brush, I'm going to go to all the way down here,
"Star Wars" free brush
and I'm gonna take like a splash brush, okay?
And I'm gonna go, right click and make the splash brush,
see it's at 2,500, I'm gonna make it like really small,
like this, okay?
And I'm gonna make sure the opacity's very like, 20%,
so black, is here, 20% is here, and now what I'm doing
with that is I'm basically splashing dust on her.
Especially on her shoes.
It's mixing up basically the sand with her shoes.
And you can make it smaller and it sit a little more
on the top of the shoes, like they were really in the sand.
And it's just gonna help sell the effect that there
is sand over her like this.
Okay?
That's pretty cool.
One thing you can do is you can go to the Haze Layer,
which I forgot to name, Haze Layer,
that's the Haze Layer of the group, right?
B for brush.
And let's go back and let's take the soft brush again,
okay, and make it very soft and make it very thin,
like this, very light, so press the Alt key,
let's take this light here, okay this,
and make even lighter, because I want it to be haze.
So something like this and I'm just gonna brush here.
Like there was haze coming from the sand.
Okay, maybe a little too much, so Command + Z,
Command + Z, Command + Z, it's all too much.
So I'm gonna redo it.
B for brush, B for brush and I'm gonna do it
like at seven percent or something.
Yes, seven percent just here on the feet.
It just helps, yeah, adds a little bit of things.
I'm just gonna lower the opacity I think on the overall
haze on her, yeah.
Okay, cool.
So now, we've gotta do the shadows of the storm troopers.
All right, so same idea.
I'm gonna go to the group of the storm trooper,
I'm gonna create an empty layer, I'm gonna put it
behind the storm trooper.
Okay, I'm gonna call it shadow.
I'm clicking on a storm trooper layers with command
and it's because they are, this was like PNGs I got.
All the storm troopers that I got from the web,
I found them in PNG format, so they are already extracted,
you just drag and drop them, you don't have to extract
them which is really cool.
I'm gonna click here on the foreground color
and I'm gonna sample a shadow, a really dark shadow here,
something like this.
Okay, perfect.
And, I'm gonna go and Edit, Fill with this,
which is the foreground color.
Okay, so now, Command + D to unselect.
So now check it out if I press the Alt key you can see,
this is their potential shadow.
Command + T as usual, right click Distort,
take the middle, put it like this.
Like the sun is in the upper right so the shadows should
be like this.
All right.
And I can make even, I can use the warp tool to make this
match even better.
This guy's here.
Oops.
Alright.
Okay.
Now the shadow is hardly visible here, so what you can do
is on here I'm gonna take the little brush.
Okay, make sure it's about at 50%,
and I'm just, because they're far away,
I'm just gonna click here and I'm just gonna go a little
darker and it's a very tiny brush and I'm just gonna
add a bit more shadow.
You can just brush in the shadow.
When it's far away you don't have to be really precise.
I think I wanna make it even darker.
It looks like there's some kind of shadow,
just follow the thing and you can also use the blur tool
to blur a little bit the shadow.
Yeah, anyway there are two, I need to add some haze
on the stormtroopers anyway and this shadow,
I wanna blur a lot, especially here,
and also you can add, I can add a mask here
as we did before, B for brush again.
Remember this time we want a very soft brush.
Black is foreground and like very low,
something like this.
And I'm just gonna make this a bit less visible here.
Voila.
Okay, perfect.
Okay, now there is shadows but they are too visible
so we need some sand over them.
So I'm gonna go here and add some haze.
So I'm gonna go here, take a brush,
or remember haze is always very low opacity.
We gonna take a very light color, maybe this color here
and basically brush some haze over the storm trooper,
even more on this one 'cause they're further away.
Further away you are, more haze you have on you.
So this has haze, this one.
Voila.
And I'm starting to like this photo,
it's starting to look like something.
The haze is too strong here, on this storm trooper,
so maybe I'm gonna put it even everywhere like this.
Okay, now that's way too much.
So I could just lower the opacity of the haze,
that's a good way to sort of you know measure that.
And now I'm ready for the final touch.
I kind of like what I did,
and now I'm ready for the final touch.
So I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go on the top layer here,
see now, you see we have all this group.
I can choose from the start.
So here we have the sun, then we have the mountain,
we have the start destroyer, we've got the foreground,
we've got Rey and we've got the storm trooper, okay?
And now, I'm gonna press Command + Alt + Shift E.
That creates a layer with everything that we've done
so far, and now that layer, I'm gonna call it final result.
This layer I'm gonna right click and make it,
convert it to a smart object.
And now I can go to Filter, Camera Filter
and it's like a RAW file.
I can do whatever I want in camera roll.
Usually what I like to do is do my extended workflow,
so open up the shadows, bring down the highlights,
I do my black points, and my white points,
it's gonna add a lot of contrast, I think I can add
some magenta to the photo, maybe lower a little bit
of vibrance, add a bit of contrast.
Okay, I think the highlights, yeah.
Maybe a little more black.
I can add, I'd like to add some texture,
maybe a little bit and lower the clarity,
just to make things a little bit more diffused.
And I think I wanna make this a little bit brighter here.
And I'm gonna make a gradient just for the bottom
so I'm gonna click here on minus exposure,
just make a small gradient for the bottom.
It's gonna help sell the effect that it's here.
I can click on the end here and maybe add a little more
magenta and a little more yellow.
Yeah, yellow kind of does the trick.
Not sure I wanna lower the vibrance.
I don't know, it's maybe,
yeah I don't want it to be too yellow.
Adding colors and then lowering the vibrance sometimes
does a nice sort of mix that I kind of like.
Okay, and, let's see here.
Maybe a bit brighter.
And the good thing is, because it's a smart object
and it's camera RAW, so we can see the before, after.
I can compare to what I some of the first steps
that I did, hold on.
This is the first step that I did.
I actually like more what I did.
It's, the fact that she's more like where Duncan is,
it's look a lot more realistic.
I just went a lot less magenta.
So I can double click on the RAW camera filter,
and maybe take out some of the magenta.
And put in it a bit more yellow, maybe not.
Something.
You know, whatever, whatever you like.
That's the final result, I hope you liked this episode.
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