#pfzine

Staring out this image, I used a portrait i had taken and made it slightly darker to suit the tone of the neon light i wanted to add.

Selecting the brush tool I adjusted the size to how large i wanted the neon light to be and with the pen tool i drew out this shape, right clicked and selected Stroke Path to create the shape. Afterwards I added layer effects to get the general neon colour

I then selected my subject and selected the grouped layer containing the stroke paths and masked it, this caused the line to appear behind the subject, which i used the pen tool on the mask to bring back to the front to give the illusion it's going around the model.

I used the brush tool again to adjust the size of how i want the hue radius to be, and applied it as a stroke path and blended it into the image. I added a hue and saturation adjustment layer, making sure to select colourize to adjust the hue and saturation and ensure that only the highlights were reflecting the light (done on layer options > blending options)

I shot the bottle in the studio at college with some invisible string to suspend it from an adjustable arm. I shot each part seperatly and imported them into photoshop and used the pentool on each piece to cut it out and removed the background using a masking layer. I then colour corrected each piece and added a png image of a splash of water against a solid white layer.

To start off this composite, I removed the background and the screen using the pen tool and placed a solid white layer behind the screen to prevent any transparent spots behind the design later on. I then used the select and mask option to mask the background.

I then used adjustment laters to correct the colour, I used the black and white filter as this made the laptop more uniform in colour as I had no proper lights to shoot the laptop when creating the raw image. I also used the brush tool to remove the B&W filter on the signature red tracking point on the laptop.

I added in the rainbow design I created and used the perspective warp smart filter to adjust it to the angle of the screen

I then added a Liquify filter to create the illusion that the design is dripping out of the screen.

I found a couple of PNGs online that suited what I wanted to achieve with my image which was create a creative advertisement, i also added a light blue gradient to the background to fill in the colour while not overcrowding the image.