13Create four black rectangles the same distance apart and then merge these layers. Rotate the layer 45 degrees. Hold down shift and use the Magic Wand tool to select them all. Turn the visibility off for that layer, click on an old visible layer and Select All followed by Copy Merged and Paste. Now offset this new layer and repeat if you wish.
14Now use the Selection tool to create a square selection before copying everything into a new canvas. Go Filter->Distort->Displace and use AEIKO002.psd on 90% vertical and 90% horizontal scale. Delete any unwanted areas, and repeat this process with different parts of the canvas.
15Use the single column Marquee tool and select a vertical line down on the canvas. Copy Merged and Paste back in. Now go to Edit->Transform->Scale and drag the middle selection point to the right at about 20% of the canvas size.
16You can now use a combination of the Polygonal Lasso tool and a grunge style brush to start deleting parts of the pixel stretched layer, so it looks as if it's breaking away from the woman (your pic). Alternatively you could use the normal Lasso tool if you would prefer.
17Select All and Copy Merged the canvas into a new layer and go to Image->Adjustments->Brightness/Contrast. Set the brightness to -89 and Contrast to +100. Select the Red and delete it (or whichever colour you used). Scale the layer, set the mode to Overlay and set the Opacity at 18%. Move this layer to the space on the right.
18Using the Custom Shape tool, start adding circles and rings to your image. Try using pink/yellow tones that fit the colour scheme and play around with the options in the Blending Mode menu and gradients, colours, overlays, strokes and opacities, until you achieve the desired effect.
19Got to the Brushes menu and select a soft round brush with an outer glow. Set the colour to White and change the spacing to 100%. Now set the Size Jitter at 70% and Scattering to 600% and start brushing areas on the canvas, altering the diameter of the brush and other options, including outer glow.
20Repeat step 13 a few times, using different sized rectangles. Use the other shapes such as circles and chop up the image a little more. Paste the same part a few times and repeat it to the right. Now add more shapes with different Blending Modes. here, some leaves and organic shapes were used. Experiment with similar shapes from your own library.
21Create a new Adjustment layer and up the contrast a little. You could also do the same for Hue/Saturation and up the Saturation slightly. Copy Merged the whole Canvas for the final time and go to Filter->Sharpen->Sharpen
22Now for the final touches. Add some small butterflies and a few organic shapes, and change the Blending Options and Opacity as you did before. Add a little more brushing and some dashed, stroked plant and leaf shapes created in Illustrator, save the image and you're done.
Now, my phones being retarded and won't upload any pics. So I can't show you the end result. It is still a doable tut though, and if you have confidence in your photoshop skill you should be able to do this easily. If you want, post up your result and I'll see if you were on the right track or not. But really, just follow the steps and you should be fine.
I've also got an even better tutorial, but it takes 10 hours to do. So as I said, do this one, and do all the best ones on good-tutorials.com and you should be fine...hopefully.
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