Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll take a look at building a photo manipulation of a city in a coffee cup. We will learn about making selections, masking, layering to create illusions, building shadows, compositing elements together into a single image, and much more! I hope you enjoy it.

🧠 This tutorial was inspired by: behance.net/gallery/51446431/Cup-Fantasy-Digital-Art-(Photoshop-Tutorial)
Cup photo by deanna alys on Unsplash: unsplash.com/photos/lzkc2S1p3Rk
Chicago: unsplash.com/photos/ewtdGmhY1vI
Airplane: unsplash.com/photos/6XCDVWiI_ao
Hot air balloons: unsplash.com/photos/jp9Bdu6IGq4
Birds: unsplash.com/photos/k8v70VLg474
Clouds brush: brusheezy.com/brushes/46803-cloud-brushes

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🔥 ↓ VIDEO GUIDE ↓ 🔥
01:20 Cleaning up the coffee cup
05:16 Creating a new shadow for the mug and background
10:23 Selecting the latte
13:09 Extracting the Chicago photo
18:35 Adding the skyline to the mug
25:30 Toning and adding more shadows
30:02 Adding clouds to the sky
32:44 Adding the plane, hot air balloons, and birds
37:09 Creating the sun
38:43 Color grading and a Blend If trick

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