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Photomanipulation walkthroughStep 1: Idea (message, composition)
You decided that you want to make a photomanipulation. But what to make? There are so many photomanipulations already out there and mostly with the same theme. So you decide you don't just want to stick a pretty girl onto a beautiful background. No you want to be original and have your manipulation portray a message everyone can relate to.
Think of things that are important to you, that lay close to your heart. They can be emotions (love, hate, sadness, anger) or experiences, hobbies (art, sports etc), things you are struggling with. Or they can be global themes like (beauty, money, economy, eating disorders, war, relationships etc.)
Of course if you choose to portray something as love there are many ways to do so. Do you want it to be a surreal depiction of love, or dark, fantasy, sci-fi, conceptual, humourous... your choice will of course decide the whole 'feel' of the image.
So choose wisely as they say.
Now that you have your theme you nee

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The Coming of Spring - WALKTHROUGHby *ErinM31

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Photoshop

I rendered a series of WIPs while creating my latest piece, The Coming of Spring [link]
This is intended to show my process and how I go about doing a photomanipulation. I am assuming that you generally know where things are in Photoshop, but if something is unclear, don't hesitate to ask. I can always add clarification and some screenshots.

This is my first walkthrough! I hope it is helpful. Let me know if there are ways that I can make it more so.

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To my watchers who are new to GIMP: I checked and you can easily do all of this.

To add a layer mask, go to the Layer menu, masks. Select white for reveal all and black for hide all.

To use the radial gradient: Select the gradient tool (left of pencil). Set opacity around 20%, select the FG to transparent gradient type, select radial shape.

There is no Color Dodge option for the blending mode, but it looks like Dodge should give a similar result.