Steps to do Photo Manipulation: –
- Choose a base picture for doing editing or apply any gradient to make background for instance linear gradient.
- Now import an image in your document.
- To provide a shadow you can use soft brush.
- Use free transform tool to adjust the shadow area as shown in the given image.
- Now choose lasso tool to delete or cut the inner part of orange.
- After deleting inner part of orange, it will look like given image.
- Now import another image.
- Adjust the image with free transform tool and flip horizontal as shown.
- Use wrap tool to make it more real and delete the unwanted area with lasso tool.
- After removing unwanted area with Lasso tool, it will look like this
- After this import a water splash image and adjust it using transform tool.
- Take any golden fish PNG image, and import it in your document
- Adjust the fish image according to you
- And the last is to adjust the opacity, balance the color, etc.
- If you are using image for manipulation using layer mask or vector masking for increase or decrease opacity of image you can create some cool combination.
And after doing all the steps you can create some very cool and beautiful images in Photoshop by doing image manipulation.