Beautiful Lighting Effect

Before:


After:


1.Use lasso tool to seclet her mouth .
Then press Ctrl +Alt+D and do as picture below:



Go to Image -> adjustment-> variation : choose Midtones and arrange the Fine and coarse lower . You will see 6 box :yellow , red , blue , magenta,green ,cyan. Click in red and yellow
The result:



2.Select all her skin , only skin .You don't need to make it perfectly, regularly is ok
Feather selection: Ctrl +Alt+D : 50



Press Crl +M and do as picture below:



3. Select the background and deselect the balloon:
Feather seclection: (Ctrl+Alt+D): 100



Ctrl +U and do as this picture:



4.Create a new layer: choose Overlay in layerbox
Use this brush: color black and white
You can hide the selection, press Ctrl +H





5.use soft brush , opacity 50% : to make her shirt lighter



use star brush to make her shirt sparkling , and make her pearl necklace more shining







6.Create a new layer , choose soft light in layer box .
Use this brush to paint around the background .Color (# 2FA9B4) opacity 50%





7. Create a new layer : choose any star brush you like to draw the background like the space



Remember , use eraser to delete any star into the balloon

8. Duplicate layer 1 and choose Soft light in layerbox , opactity 50% . The picture is more better.



Click here to download all brushes used for this tutorial