How to Create a Haunted House Scene With Photoshop

This is an useful tutorial member lesson. In this tutorial, it’ll show you how to create a haunted house scene with Photoshop. You’ll learn how to combine different images together, add moonlight and create a dark and haunting atmosphere. Let’s get started!

Tutorial Details

• Program : Photoshop CS3+
• Estimated Completion Time : 90 minutes
• Difficulty : Intermediate

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Resources

• Sky 1
• Sky 2
• House
• Crow
• Bats
• Tree
• Moon

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Step 1

Create a new document in Photoshop with the following settings:

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Step 2

Open the sky image. Drag it into the white canvas using the Move Tool (V) :

Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 4px to soften the sky a bit:

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Step 3

Use an adjustment layer and set it as Clipping Mask to change the sky color a little. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation :

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Step 4

Use a Curves adjustment layer to darken the sky:

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Step 5

Cut out the moon from the original image and place it onto the top middle of the sky:

Apply a Gaussian Blur of 4px to the moon:

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Step 6

Create a Color Balance adjustment layer (set as Clipping Mask) to change the moon color:

Use a Curves adjustment layer to brighten the moon as it looks too dark now:

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Step 7

To add a glowing effect to the moon, double click the moon layer, choose Outer Glow and Inner Glow :

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Step 9

Make a Photo Filter adjustment layer (set as Clipping Mask) to change the house color: