How To Create a Unique Fantasy Photograph Without the Expense of a Photo Shoot!

There are a variety of ways to create a unique fantasy photograph and the easiest is where you simply add your own head to a pre-existing photograph and blend it to make it look authentic. This is a fairly simple process and can produce good results but the photograph will never be unique as many people will use that same image.

What follows is a brief guide to how you can create unique fantasy portrait photographs of your children that are guaranteed to be unique. To create these images, you will require a photo editing software. I myself used Photoshop Elements 9 (an inexpensive version of Photoshop) to create the unique portrait seen here.

How I did it

To create my forest fairy portrait (seen below) I took a photo of a young girl (my friends daughter) jumping on a trampoline and sourced and added a variety of separate images  blending and altering them carefully to create a seamless, well blended image that looks authentic.



The original photograph showed the child with her legs missing so not only did I have to add a background and clothing, I also had to add legs!





Once the images had been sourced I had to remove all the background elements seen in each individual image, this process is called image clipping. I then added each element one at a time, seamlessly blending each element in a series of layers. I made the wings transparent so that the forest background could be seen through them and edited the dress, head flowers and legs to seamlessly fit the child's body changing the dimensions in the process.

The photograph was then enhanced to give a clear result that will look fabulous when printed out. The wand elements were also added afterwards and the star on the wand was illuminated to give that extra special authentic appeal changing it completely from the original wand image that was used.

This process takes a great deal of time and skill but produces great unique results. It is as such NOT a head in a hole template picture but a genuinely original portrait.

To see more unique fantasy portrait photographs, please visit my blog site.