PS synthesis, fusion method of characters and background

What I want to express through the PS synthesis, fusion of characters and background is the rhythm of time that a person feels when drinking water and the tropical storm-like feeling that the water brings to her! Since I just wanted to give an idea tutorial, I didn’t go into details, so please forgive me!

Please see the original material! First of all, I thought, how can we fully select the characters? So I first observed the character and the background. I found that the outline of the character was very clear and it was easy to separate it from the background. But when I saw the hair, the difficulty came because the color of the hair was mixed with the color of the background, making it impossible to use Ordinary method to choose! So I decided to leave my hair alone and deal with the easy parts first!

After making the initial selection, the problem came to the hair again! I wonder, can it be done through hue separation? I tried the color range and several professional tone separation filters, but the results were not ideal. What I wanted was incomplete, and a lot of what I didn’t want! I tried it with knokout, and the result was beyond recognition! So I lost confidence and decided to work with the most primitive brushes! Observing the observation channel, I found that the information inside was quite complete, and the details of the hair were very clear! So I decided to use channels to create a layer mask, use calculation commands to enhance the details I needed on the mask, and finally use a brush to modify the mask.
After my observation, I found that the red channel has obvious light and dark information between the hair and the surrounding background!

In this way, you will get a preliminary layer mask. Use a low-flow, low-transparency brush to modify the mask!
Please note the black area of the bottle on the mask!

Actually, I combined the following picture with 3 pictures, so I won’t go into the specific method!

The preparation work has been completed, and the synthesis will officially begin below. By the way, I forgot to mention, the original character is put on clothes. I have already processed the text, using stamps, repair brushes, clipping masks, and directly using brushes to pick colors. If you really don’t know how to do it, I suggest you go home and learn the basics first.
I first rested the characters! , grinding, polishing, sharpening, removing dust spots, and curves, basically achieving the following effects:

Next we look at the time material. I want to give people an ethereal feeling, so I use layers Blending mode, lowering the transparency to achieve the effect I wanted, but I didn’t want the character to be affected, so I added a layer mask and reversed it!

BelowIaddedasmokyeffecttothelayer.ThespecificproductionmethodisusingKPT7.Ifyouareinterested,pleasedoityourself!

Thenthelayersoftheislandandtreearealsomadeaccordingtothetimelayermethod.Inordertoleteveryoneseetheeffectofthemaskclearly,Ionlyletthislayerbedisplayed!Payattentiontolayerblendingmodes!

Addmyownnameattheend:)Justforfun!Openallyoureyesandtakeacloserlookatmylayeradjustments!It’sbasicallydone.Pleasethinkabouttheotherdetailsyourself.WhatIwroteisjusttheidea,notthe”photoshop” from entry to proficiency! If you want to use other materials for practice, you can go to http://sc.jcwcn.com to find a lot of good materials.