Tutorial Details

Program: Photoshop CS5

Estimated Completion Time: 30 Minutes

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.

• Hyper Brushes
• Trance Brushes
• Cloud Brushes
• Water Splash
• Dancer Image
• Background Texture

Now that we have everything we need, so let’s start!

Step 1 - Create a new file with 675px width and 1000px height.

Step 2 - Now open the wall texture and paste it on our file

Step 3 - Select the Soft Round Brush and use it over the background with color # 000000

Step 4 - Now change the blending mode of the above layer to overlay.

Step 5 - Open the dancer image and select it using pen tool then paste it on our file.

Step 6 - Select the Easer tool and erase some parts of the model image

Step 7 - Open the water image and paste it on our file

Step 8 - Create a new layer for this click on Layer> New> Layer, and then select the soft round brush and use it on the water with # a864a8 color.

Step 9 - Now change the blending mode of the layer to “Color”.

Step 10 - Now paste the water one more time, and then click on image> Adjustments> Hue/Saturation

Step 11 - Create a new layer, then select one of the hyper brush mentioned. Use it on the water splash with color # ffffff.

Step 12 - We’ll add some outer glow to the brush stroke, so for this click on Layer> Layer style> Outer glow.

Step 13 - Now repeat the same process and this time add the outer glow of a blue color.

Step 14 - Now select the cloud brushes and use them randomly over our file.

Step 15 - Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool and create a few shapes then fill them with different colors.

Step 16 - Now change the blending mode of the above layer to “Soft light”.

Step 17 - Create a new layer and select the Trance brush use it on left leg and right arm with color # 92278f

Step 18 - Now select the soft round brush and use it with color # ffffff

Step 19 - Click on layer> Layer style> Outer Glow and add some outer glow to the above layer.

Step 20 - Now to finish it off you can add some stars in the middle.

And now our Super Splash effect is done. Hope you guys enjoyed it and learn something interesting.

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