Last thought
original image

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Cut the woman and pasted in new layer. The reason i did this is because when i darkened the image to make it look like night the woman was too dark
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Darkened image with the help of an "Levels" adjustment layer . Here you can see what i was talking about in the previous step. The woman is just too dark
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As you can see I added the a new woman layer and then used an adjustments layer again because this time she was too bright...
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And thats the fireball with the help of brushes ,3 layers and blending modes.
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Added some more fireballs
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Sky didnt look right to me so I painted over it with a dark blue and set the layer to Luminocity. I also painted over some other areas i thought they had too much light
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Added layer mask to the Dark Blue layer and did some touch ups
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Added some lighting and coloring...
final result

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