How To Create Man On Fire Photo Manipulation with Photoshop CS5/ CS6

Creating photo manipulation like above photo is very easy and simple to do. With Photoshop CS5 or Cs6, creating wallpapers like this is easy and very simple. All you need to know is how to use various tools, effects and filters embedded within the software. If you want to be great with Photoshop, follow us on Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube, Linkedin, or Twitter for latest updates and tutorials. 

Steps in creating the Photo Manipulation:

 Download photos like lionel messi, colourful smoky backgrounds, and fire backgrounds from google images. 

·         Create a new A5 or any other document size in Photoshop. Fill the background with black colour and rotate the document into  landscape

·         Import downloaded images into photoshop. This is done by lifting the images from where they might be and dropping them on the workspace in photoshop

·         The next step is trimming of lionel messi from background of original picture. Trimming can be done with lasso tools or pen tool depending on what tool you are comfortable with. But I used the magic lasso tool to trim mine. 

·         After that, I refined it with refine edge dialogue. I then output it to a new layer at the output section of the dialogue box

      The next step is to expand the cool or smoky background to become the background of the wallpaper. Adjust the brightness and contrasts of lionel messi picture, Go to Image-Adjustments- Levels.

·         Create a new layer and paint it with orange colour with soft edge brush. Place the painted layer below the layer of lionel messi.

·         After that, blend the colour layer with the smoky background layer. Select the colour layer, go to blend mode and choose overlay. You should get something like this if your smoke background is the same as mine 

·         The next step is blending the fire with lionel messi. But before you do that, select lionel messi layer and go to image-adjustment-photo filter and add warm filter (85) orange colour to it. Increase density to about 30%.

·         Now the fun part. Select the fire layer and duplicate it 4 times. Start blending it with lionel messi. You do this by placing the fire at parts of the body where you want the fire to burn. 

·         Choose eraser tool. Select soft edge and start erasing the black background of the fires. The reason is to blend the fire with lionel messi. Becareful when you are doing this. Take your time.

·         Now duplicate layers of the fires to properly envelope messi with the fire. At this stage, you have to try till it works. Add fire to where it matters most. Untill you get something like this 

 

Now, duplicate lionel Messi layer. Select the duplicated layer and change blending mode to overlay. After that merge the two layers together as one.

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·         Now we create the Fire Text. This is done by first writing the word. Arial black will be a perfect font to use. Its bold and heavy. 

·         After creating above text. Import the fire picture again to photoshop. Place it on top of the text layer. After that, Control / Command Click on the text layer to create a selection like this

·         Now select the fire layer on top of the text and Control J or Command J to duplicate it. After that, delete the original fire layer and shut the eye of the Text layer. You will get something like this.

·         Now give it some contrast with levels. After that, apply the burning fire on messi to the text to create something like this. 

·         After completing the above successfully, duplicate the smoky background layer and place it on top of all the layers like this

·     Now go to blend mode and choose Overlay. This will blend the top layer with all the layers below . it will give the work a colourful touch that is fantastic. You might end up with something like this. After that, add some brightness and contrasts to the whole work to complete it.

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The final step step is the addition of gradient  text behind lionel messi's Layer. After that, we are good to go. 

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