Here's a quick tutorial on the cover above. Took me about 15 minutes to make on Photoshop because it is super easy to do as I'll show below.
Step 1.
I used the following stock image:
Adjusted the stock using free transform, positioned it on my 512x800 canvas, and erased the edges using a soft eraser until I got this:
I did make adjustments to the curves and hue/saturation to make it darker and a little more blue because blue is much fab.
Step 2
I took this stock image:
And set it to linear dodge using the layers panel.
I got this effect:
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