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Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Easily Transform a Normal Portrait Image into an Artistic Painting. We will apply several image adjustments, filters, and Pen Tool to achieve this effect. This tutorial is suitable for those who possess intermediate Photoshop knowledge. Have a try :)

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model by http://kxhara.deviantart.com/

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1000px * 1000px with black background. Load the the model image into Photoshop and draw a rough selection around this image below, with the Quick Selection Tool:

1 sel Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, flip it horizontally and resize as shown below:

1 flip 500x525 Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

Apply the following Surface Blur filter settings:

1 surface blur Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

Then apply the following Unsharp Mask filter:

1 unsharpen mask Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

Use a soft eraser to remove the top right hair area, and you will have the following effect:

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Step 2

We will now add image adjustments layer to give this model some painting effect. On top of this model layer, add the following 3 adjustment layers:

Levels

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Curves

2 curves Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

Color Balance

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and you will have the following effect:

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Step 3

We will draw some abstract hair pattern to add some extra flavour into the image. We will use the Pen Tool to draw a work path as shown below:

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Pick a soft round brush from the brush panel:

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Stroke this work path with this brush, make sure you tick the “Simulate Pressure” option when stroking. Duplicate this brush storke layer a few times, resize and rotate them to form a shape as shown below:

Hint: you can hit Ctrl + U to bring up the Hue and Saturation tool to adjust the colour of the duplicated layer. I used red and dark yellow colour on my image, but you’re free to expriement your own colour scheme.

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Merge this layers into one layer, then keep duplicating them unitl you have a massive amount of hair as shown below. Then we again merge them into one single layer, apply some liquify filter effect to the edges of the hair to give it some flowing effect:

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Move this layer to sit below the original model layer:

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Duplicate the merged hair layer once more, and reduce its size, attach it to the lower part of the head as shown below:

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Step 4

Continue duplicate the merged hair layer, and move them to the face and neck portion of th image, change the layer blending mode to either “multiply” or “overlay”, experiment the effect and add some pattern on the face and neck:

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Optional Step: you can add some particles with a debris brush around the facial area, as shown below:

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 5

We’re almost done :) Add some final touches by flattening the image, duplicate this background layer and apply the Cutout filter as shown below to the duplicated layer:

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We want to add the following layer mask to this cutout layer:

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To further fine-tune the colours on the image, add the following 2 adjustments layers on top:

Curves

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5 curves red Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

Colour Balance

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5 col high Transform Normal Portrait Image into Artistic Painting in Photoshop

and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

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That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!


The Creation of “The Storm is Approaching” Artwork in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process of The Creation of “The Storm is Approaching” Artwork in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level Photoshop tutorial so some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try!

Along the way, we will go through some photo manipulation/combination techniques, as well as some use of custom Photoshop brushes and image adjustments.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Ocean

Cloud

Cliff

Model

Lightning Brushes

Water splash brush

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1400px * 800px with black background. Load the ocean image into Photoshop and use a rectangular marquee tool to select a piece from of the ocean from the image, copy and paste the selection onto our document:

Hint: Erase the top edge of the ocean with a eraser tool, or use a black gradient fill tool (Black to Transparent setting) to fade the top edge.

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Add the following 3 adjustment layers to this ocean layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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Curves

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And as a result you will have a rough sea surface (transformed from a relatively calm surface), as shown below:

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Use the cloud filter, or a cloud brush (lots of these) on the internet to add some cloud/mist over the ocean layer:

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Step 2

Load the cloud image into Photoshop, and copy and paste a portion of it onto our document, resize and position it as shown below:

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Apply some “Reduce Noise” filter to this cloud – this will add a softening effect and reduce the cloud noise:

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Add the following adjustment layers to this cloud layer as its clipping mask:

Black and White

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Levels

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Curves

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Again we erase the bottom of the cloud so it fades into the background, and merge with the ocean:

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 3

We will add a cliff onto the image. Load the cliff image into Photoshop and select a portion as shown below with quick selection tool:

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Copy and paste the selection onto our document, resize and position it as shown below:

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Use an eraser tool (with around 60% hardness), remove some parts of the rock as shown below:

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Add the following 3 adjustment layer as clipping mask for this rock layer:

Black and white

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Levels

3 lv The Creation of The Storm is Approaching Artwork in Photoshop

Layer mask on the levels adjustment layer:

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Curves

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and you will have the following effect so far:

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Use the water splash brush you downloaded, paint some splash around the edge of the rock as shown below: (reduce the brush size to a small scale)

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Step 4

We will now add the model in. Load the model image into Photoshop and copy and paste it onto our document, and resize it as shown below:

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Add the following 3 adjustment layers to this model layer:

Black and white

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Levels

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Layer mask on the levels adjustment layer:

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By using this levels layer mask, it will darken the lower part of the model and create some depth:

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Add some highlights on the ground with a soft white brush painting on a new layer (set the layer blending mode to “overlay)

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Add some cloud warping effect around the model as well:

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If you’re not sure of how to achieve this cloud warp effect, check out this video tutorial below: (jump to 4:55 min)

Step 5

We can now use the lightning brush to add some lightning effect over the ocean:

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And use some water splashing brushes to add some splashes around the lightning:

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We will also add some mist/cloud above the ocean for some more dramatic effect: (using the same cloud warp method as above)

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We can finish up the photo by add some colour effect with various image adjustment layers (such as colour balance, selective colour, etc) for some more effect, and here is the final effect (click to enlarge)

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I have a video Photoshop tutorial showing you how to achieve this type of colour effect via image adjustment layers here:

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!

Design a One-Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a One-Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop. We will mainly go through some selection techniques, image adjustments, liquify filter as well as some lighting effect rendering skills. This is an intermediate tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model

Ground (Rock)

Wing

Fire

Step 1

Create a new document sized 800px * 1030px with black background. As usual we will start preparing the ground texture. Load the rock texture into Photoshop and select a piece as shown below:

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Erase the edges and perspective this as shown below for some depth:

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Add the following 2 adjustment layers on top of this ground layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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Create a new layer on top and use a hard black brush to paint some pattern on the ground, and this creates a uneven surface for the ground:

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Use a red brush to paint some fiery texture on the ground as well:

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Then, use a cloud brush (set brush opacity and flow to around 40%) and paint some cloud texture above the ground. You can also use the Warp Tool to warp the cloud so it forms a curvy shape:

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Step 2

We will add some stone background texture as well. So grab a piece from the stone texture and paste it onto our document as shown below:

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Erase the the centre and the edge portion of the texture with a soft eraser:

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Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping mask to this texture:

Black and White

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Levels

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Curves

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 3

Load the model image into Photoshop and cut out the model, paste it onto the centre of the canvas as shown below:

3 paste1 Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

 

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Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping mask to this model layer:

Black and White

3 bw Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

Erase the following portion on the black and White adjustment layer mask to add some colour variation:

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Levels

3 lv Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

Curves

3 curves Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

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Step 4

We will add some rock texture over the model just to made the scene a bit more surreal. Copy and paste a piece of the stone texture over the model, and set it as a clipping mask layer to the model layer (put this one above the previous adjusment layers for the model):

4 rock paste Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

Change the blending mode of this layer to “Overlay”:

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Load the wing image into Photoshp and cut out the wing, paste it onto our document and attach it to the back of the model as shown below:

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Use a soft eraser to fade the edges of the wing to add some depth:

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Add the following 2 adjustment layers to this wing layers:

Black and White

4 bw Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

Levels

4 lvs Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

4 effect1 Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

Step 5

We will add some fire texture onto the image, select the fire portion from the fire image we downloaded earlier:

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Copy and paste this fire onto our document, duplicate it a few times. Resize and attach them to various parts of the model and wing as shown below:

Hint: Experiement with different blending mode (overlay, screen, color dodge) and see what effect they bring to the image.

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Now we can go back to the fire image and select a few pieces with the quick selection tool as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection onto our document, use the liquify filter to turn them into little strips as shown below:

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Duplicate this layer a few times and move them around document, as shown below:

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Step 6

We will add some lighting effect to the image. Flatten the image and duplicate the background layer, apply the following Motion Blur setting to this duplicated layer:

6 mo blur Design a One Winged Fallen Angel Scene in Photoshop

Add the following layer mask to this motion blur layer:

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and you will have the following effect:

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Finally  I adjusted the colour a bit with the colour balance adjustment layer and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

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That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

VIP Exclusive Photoshop Tutorial – Conceptual Photo Manipulation Techniques in Photoshop

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Welcome to another Exclusive Photoshop tutorial written specifically for the PSD Vault VIP Members! In this tutorial, we will explain in detail how to create this conceptual surreal photo manipulation with custom brushes and floral patterns. Hope you enjoy it :)

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  1. how to create an conceptual surreal photo-manipulation
  2. the process of creating depth of field using a few advance tools
  3. how to blend images so seamlessly that it would look like a single image using the Brush tool, the Eraser tool and several adjustment layers.
  4. how to use textures and give life to our image
  5. how to create a moody, dreamy tone using a few adjustment layers and lighting effects

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The Creative Process of “Worship” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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The article is written exclusively for PSD Vault by Tristan Kromopawiro. In this post, Tristan explains the creative process of his “Worship” artwork using Photoshop. You can check out his portfolio work at http://www.phonoric.com.

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Technology is all around us, most of us depend on it. Although there are big parts of the world where technology isn’t a big part of everyday life, I feel that technology could help improve their life. Whereas in other parts of the world people obsess over it, letting it control their lives.

I wanted to create an image keeping in mind the relationship between humanity and technology. The cliff represents earth, the woman represents mankind and the third “being” represents technology. Below I will explain my thoughts behind the creation process. Bear in that while I did have a concept for this image, I didn’t sketch anything out or have a clear picture in my head of what it was going to look like. I made most of it up as I went along. This was entirely made in Adobe Photoshop.

I wanted to create a somewhat abstract being. It should represent technology so I went looking for stock photos of all things related. Cables, wires, engines, you name it. I always try to make sure the quality of the images used is consistent. When I’ve extracted what I need from the stock photos I place them on the canvas and make sure they blend nicely together, using color correction, curves or anything else wherever necessary. Below you will find a small selection of the stock photos I’ve used and how I used them for my image. I re-sized and rotated the extracted elements and used the warp tool to transform them to my liking.

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At this point I kind of knew what I wanted the image to look like. With the main composition established, I kept adding more mechanical parts to the entity.

I wanted technology to have a face of some sorts, so I went looking and I came across this perfect steampunk mask made by www.thedarkpower.com.

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Because of the concept behind the image, I wanted mankind (the woman) depicted small in comparison to technology (the entity). Like I said earlier, some people almost worship technology, hence the composition: The woman looking up to the entity, almost throwing herself at it.

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At this stage, as seen above, I started to work on shading, highlights, details and coloring where necessary. For this image I wanted to have a slightly painted, distressed look. So I added various textures. The entity had to emerge from the sky, so I used a combination of cloud brushes, default Photoshop brushes and cloud stock photos to create the background. I tried to add some depth by making some clouds overlap the entity, as if it were really coming down through the clouds.

I added some last details and made sure there were no “mistakes”, such as rough edges, or areas not blended properly. Finally, I used the “unsharp mask” option to sharpen the image as a whole a bit.

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And that’s basically how I created this image. Below you can find the final image again. I hope you enjoyed this article!

Create Abstract Photo Manipulation with Tree Bark Texture and Brush Elements

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create this Abstract Manipulation with Tree Bark Texture and Brush Elements. Along the way, you will learn how you can apply layer masks to image adjustment layers to create unique effect, as well as learning to blend texture and to use various elements to create great abstract effect.

This  is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Girl Photo by ~Mirish

Tree Bark Texture

Grunge Brushsets (Pick a few from the list)

Step 1

Create a new document sized 800px * 1136px, fill the background layer with #cccec9 color. We will add some textures onto the background – Load the tree bark texture into Photoshop, use the rectangular marquee tool to select a portion of it as shown below:

1 sel Create Abstract Photo Manipulation with Tree Bark Texture and Brush Elements

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, resize it to fit the size of the canvas. Apply the following image adjustments to it:

Black and White

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Levels

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Set the layer blending mode to “Subtract” (for versions other than CS6, you can use “overlay” mode instead)

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Add a highlight to the centre with a soft white brush:

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Then create a new layer, and apply some grunge brush paintings over it – I have the following effect below:

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Step 2

Load the girl image into Photoshop, cut out the girl and paste it over to our document:

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Apply the following surface blur settings to this girl layer:

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Use any grunge brushset as eraser, remove the edges of the girl as shown below: (make sure you adjust the brush size accordingly as you paint)

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Add the following 3 adjustment layer as clipping mask to this girl layer:

Black and White

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Layer mask on the black and white adjustment layer:

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Levels

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Layer mask on the levels adjustment layer:

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Curves

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 3

We will add some bark textures around the face – use quick selection tool to select a piece on the bark image, and copy & paste to our document, as shown below:

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Distort the new bark layer as show below:

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Select this new layer, and apply the following “Refine Edge” options: (by doing so, it will give a rough edge for this tree bark layer)

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Apply the following 3 image adjustments to this bark layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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Curves

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Then we can duplicate this layer a few times,  then move them around the face as shown below:

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Step 4

We’ve now done the textures and painting parts. Let’s flatten the image and duplicate the background layer, grab the clone stamp tool:

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Set the brush to soft round for this clone stamp tool:

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Define the following portion as the clone source, then paint around the girl’s face, as shown below:

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Apply the following layer mask to this new layer to hide some portion:

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You can apply some liquify filter effect to various parts of the photo as well:

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 5

We will fine-tune the image a bit and add some colour effect to it. We will do them via adjustment layers as below: (from bottom to top)

Curves

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Layer Mask on the Curves adjustment layer:

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Selective Color

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Color Balance

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and you will have the following final effect: (click to enlarge)

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That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

The Creation of “APOCALYPTICA” Digital Art in Photoshop

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This tutorial is written exclusively for PSD Vault by Olga Dabrowska.

In this Photoshop Tutorial, I will show you how I created apocalyptic scene using various stock photos in Adobe Photoshop CS5, with a little help of Adobe Lightroom 4.

I will not explain basic actions used here so it is meant for intermediate to advanced PS users. Most of steps for this walkthrough use basic skills like cutting out objects from background, changing colors and using gradient fills, scaling, transforming etc. As every artist has their own method for these, I am showing overall workflow to create such scene.

Final Image Preview: (Click to Enlarge)

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To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model

City of Shanghai

Background

Sky

Dead bushes

Skull

F18 Hornet

Textures:

Brushes
http://www.daz3d.com/utilities-resources/brushes-effects?vendor=659

Step 1 – MODEL

For this scene I needed modern looking model and while browsing through huge stock gallery at deviantart.com I found this wonderful shot of a girl that perfectly suited my needs.

The pose shows worrying, fear, uncertainty and these we need to create a vision of end of the world. While cutting out model I always copy background of the photo [Ctrl+J] and insert new layer between background and copy, filled with 50% grey. This lets me see mistakes at the edges. As said, I won’t go into details of cutting, I used Pen Tool to select the model, created selection based on the path, inverted selection and hit [Ctrl+X].

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I didn’t worry about the hair as I repainted it completely. There are many ready made hair brushes in the internet but I prefer to paint it from scratch, using model hair as base so best for me are any spatter brushes, their opacity and size set to pen pressure.

Of course, I am using tablet. Here is model after level adjustments (to make more contrast), color balance (set to show more saturation) and painted hair. Ready to be pasted in the background that is yet to be created.

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Step 2 – BACKGROUND

Creating background from many photos is exciting and fun work. Let’s make new document 3000x4000px 300dpi and start pasting roughly your chosen photos.

Set your light direction at this moment! I used part of background with stones to make nice base for the model, photo of Shanghai that had just the perfect perspective and several photos of various skies. Sky layers are below all layers and every time I wanted to remove part of the sky to preserve interesting cloud or another area, I used layer mask to be able to restore parts should I change my mind.

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Top part of Shanghai photo has been erased, as well as sky. Sky photo http://fav.me/d29m9gx has been put in Overlay mode with opacity around 70-80%, this created nice lighting right away.

Always try to play with layer modes when you work with sky – some photos can be used partially and some can be used as a whole in various modes only to create good light, like in this case.

As photos have different coloring and they need to be blended well, I adjusted levels and color balance for each new layer and at the end used gradient fill layer [Layer-New Fill Layer- Gradient Fill] and used warm yellow color with linear gradient put on top of all background layers. During my workflow I use many gradient fills with low opacity and colors picked from the image to unify photographs I use.

The result, after playing with opacity and layer mode of gradient fill that in the end was put in Soft Light mode.

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Side note: get friendly with layer masks and adjustment layers. They let you modify just about any aspect of the layer and get back to original state should you change your mind. But warning – they make huge psd files!

Step 3 – MODEL + BACKGROUND

Simply copy-paste your model on top of background layers but below last gradient fill (the yellow one). The model instantly gets warmer coloring but still looks bad, we’ll work on that later.

For now we need to make her stand on the ground rather than float so create layer mask and with soft brush, black color, make parts of boots invisible.

If too much, invert colors hitting X and paint with white, revealing boots. When you’re satisfied, create new layer below the model and paint shadows with soft brush, dark warm brown color picked from the ground on which the model is standing. Put the layer in Soft Light mode, copy if too light and lower opacity of this copy. Now the model is standing.

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Step 4 – MODEL COLORS

The model has colder colors than background and since we decided on light coming from left, slightly from top, we are going to do two things with one layer: change colors to warm without touching their hue and create instant correct lighting on the model.

To do this, create new layer with clipping mask above the layer and paint with mid-brown color on the right side of the model. Use some texture brush for variety, soft brush would make for a dull effect. Set this layer to Soft Light and play with opacity – we want to make the model lit and warmly colored, not too dark. Below comparison of layer effect – normal mode on the left, soft light on the right.

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Step 5 – SKULL

Adding little elements makes for a nice effect of variety so I took the skull, cut out, pasted and scaled down referencing the model’s head to keep realism.

Blending: layer below skull painted with dark brown, used Motion Blur with some low number and angle to make it more real. Then applied my favourite gradient fill (remember to make clipping mask based on skull layer) with cold color from blue-green palette. Direction of linear gradient must follow light direction of whole image so shadows will be obviously on the right (gradient fading to top left). Set it to Soft Light and done.

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Why I used blue/green? Because it’s opposite to browns and oranges on color wheel and using complimentary colors creates instant „right” look. Try it! It’s my old rule from painting years – shadows are cold when lights are warm and the other way.

Step 6 - FOREGROUND

Time to make some interesting foreground. I decided to add dry bushes to increase the vision of apocalypse. 3D rendered bushes are just fine and easy to use. Copied and pasted them in various combinations on top of all layers (below main gradient fill again, just like with the model) and adjusted their colors with Levels, Hue-Saturation and Gradient Fills (each bush has it’s own adjustment layers set for easy control of end effect).

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To create a little depth of field and make overall image less flat, I used Gaussian Blur on bushes layers (you can merge them in one if you’re happy with your adjustments), using approx. 6 px radius.

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Step 6 - MODEL – BOOST LIGHTING

To boost lighting on our model, create new layer with clipping mask above model layer and paint with soft brush and warm yellow color areas hit by light like edges of legs, arm, bridge of nose. Shown below layer effect – normal mode and Soft Light with opacity set to 50%. It gives more reality.

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Step 7 – MODEL – BLENDING TRICK

Usually figures in photomanipulations look pasted no matter how you match colors etc. but here’s little trick that makes wonders in a matter of seconds and allows to create convincing look of unified image. Select model layer, copy it with [Ctrl+J] and put copy under original.

Adjust Hue-Saturation to make this copy pure white and set it to Soft Light or Overlay, whichever looks better. What we aim for here is making gentle glow around the model that normally appears on photographs because of the light scattered around. Below – white layer with added Gaussian Blur that I highly recommend for this step. Radius approx. 30-40 depending on the size of your document, make it blurred but not too much.

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Step 8 – BURSTS, BOMBS AND OTHER

Time to add destruction. I used excellent resource by deviney at daz3d.com but there are many similar brushes and elements in the internet, for example these ones

http://fav.me/df7989

http://fav.me/ddjjcp

http://fav.me/d1qchrw

http://fav.me/d2am3wh

http://fav.me/d5gsnvt

Carefully place various burst and smoke/fire effects on layer above background layers. Remember that yellow/orange/red elements need balancing with cold blue/grey smoke. Work zoomed out to see how it looks like and position your layers for best balance. It takes time. What helps is flipping image horizontally every once in a while to see it with fresh eye.

As the background is not in focus of this image naturally, I blurred all added elements with Gaussian Blur with small radius. I also added new layer above city layer and with texture brush and warm midbrown color added some texture imitating decay to the buildings. Layer is set to Soft Light with opacity 90%. Below – normal mode to show where I painted texture.

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Close-up of destruction elements below. Some of them can be put in Overlay mode to enhance saturation or Multiply to mute effect, all you need is playing with these settings and adjust opacity/mode to your liking.

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Step 9 – F16 HORNET

Small element that will add more war feeling to our apocalyptic image. Hornet has been cut using pen tool and placed in main document, scaled down and rotated a bit. Fire has been added to engines, just small but useful element.

It is also advised to add new gradient fill layer to the hornet to match instantly color and lighting, in this case it is dark warm brown linear gradient set to Soft Light and direction set to fade towards light direction in the image. It also blends element into background.

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Step 10 – MODEL AGAIN – ENHANCING CONTRAST, IMPROVING BLENDING

Often I get back to various elements of the photomanipulation during the work, adjusting them until I’m happy with the result and in this case I noticed that model is still looking a bit flat.

To get rid of this effect I added new layer with clipping mask to the model layer and with texture brush and midbrown warm color, painted areas on the right side of the model and in areas hidden in shadow. Set this layer to Overlay and as a result I have now nice contrast and enhanced lighting effect, making the model look more 3D and blended better. Notice how the glow layer below works for the  overall effect.

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Also bottom part needed to be reworked a bit, I took advantage of layer mask left on the model layer and revealed a little more of the boots, darkened them with Burn tool and also added new layer below the model to paint on shadows on the ground. Shadow layer has been blurred with Motion Blur as previously and set to Soft Light. Now the model is really standing firmly on the ground.

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Step 7 – TEXTURING

After checking and finally adjusting all layers here is final result ready to be textured:

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Below used textures along with their layer modes and opacity. I always use several textures and lower opacities, erasing some areas too. In this case I chose textures adding more decay effect. They are mostly in blue shades because blue is complimentary to orange that overwhelms the image and it needs to be balanced.

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Note: try to choose textures that already have nicely placed lighting, matching lighting in your image.

Below comparison of the image before texturing and after applying 4 textures in various layer modes. One of textures added nice pseudo-lightning effects on the right.

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Step 8 – LIGHTROOM STEP

This step is not mandatory, you can do these adjustments in Photoshop itself but I prefer to use Lightroom for its better ability to control subtle differences in colors, shades and overal toning of the image.

First copy all merged layers by hitting [Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E]. It’s best to do it with very top layer selected. Now [Ctrl+A], [CTRL+X], [Ctrl+N], [Ctrl+V] – and flatten resulting document. Save as high quality jpg. Open up Lightroom and import your flattened image.

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Hit Develop and adjust Hue/Saturation, Tone and Presence sliders to bring out more blue tones in the image.  Here’s my result:

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Note: if you can’t use Lightroom you can do this in Photoshop with your merged layer on top of all, adjusting Color Balance, Levels and Hue/Saturation as well as Exposure. I recommend using adjustment layers for this step, with clipping masks of course.

Step  9 – FINAL TOUCHES

As you can see, after Lightroom adjustments image looks much more interesting and it’s because we have complimentary colors in just the right areas – warm, vividly orange bursts and navy blue sky in colder palette. But this is a bit too obvious to my liking so after pasting edited image on top of my main document, I lower its opacity a little, just this bit to still see blue/orange contrast, in this case 50% did just fine.

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If you feel like doing this, you can adjust Levels or Curves to bring more lights, Exposure adjustment layer also works for this step.

And if you’re happy – flatten document and you’re done!

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Thanks for reading my walkthrough. I hope it is useful and inspirational to you. If you have any question, please leave me a comment below!

VIP Exclusive Photoshop Tutorial – Awesome Dancer Photo Manipulation with Cool Drawing and Lighting Effect

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Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation by Mixing Ice and Fire Textures

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In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Unique Photo Manipulation via Mixture of Ice and Fire Textures. Along the way, I will show some interesting ways to manipulate texture via image adjustment tool and free transform tool. This is an intermediate level tutorial, have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model

Metal Image

Fire

Ice 1

Ice 2

Step 1

Create a new document sized 860px * 1140px with black background, load the metal image into Photoshop and select a piece as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our document, resize it to cover the canvas. Then apply the following Accented Edges filter to give it a special effect:

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and here is the effect so far:

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Use a soft eraser, remove the edges of this layer as shown below:

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Add the following 3 adjustments layers on top:

Black and White

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Levels

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Curves

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 2

Load the model image into Photoshop and cut out the head area, paste it onto our document as shown below:

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Apply the following Surface Blur settings to smooth out the skin a bit:

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Use a soft eraser, erase the edges of  the face as shown below:

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Add the following adjustment layers as clipping mask to this model layer:

Black and white

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Layer mask on the black and white adjustment layer:

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Levels

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Layer mask on the levels adjustment layer:

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Curves

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 3

We will add some ice texture onto image. Load the ice 1 image into Photoshop and use the Lasso Tool to select a piece as shown below:

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Copy and paste into the document, and set it as a clipping mask to the face layer:

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Apply the following Crystallize filter to add some crystal effect into the ice texture:

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Apply the following black and white adjustment to this ice layer:

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Change the blending mode of this ice texture layer to “vivid light”:

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 4

Now let’s go to the fire image and select the fire with the quick selection tool as shown below:

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We can then copy the fire texture over and place it under the face layer, use the free transform tool to resize it to fit the shape of the face:

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Add some fire texture over the head as well:

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Step 5

Now we want to give this photo some further surreal effect by adding some “Dark Energy” around the face. To do this, simply duplicate the fire texture layer once and apply the following black and white adjustment:

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and you will the fire texture changed into some black/grey lines, as shown below:

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We can then duplicate this layer a few times, and attach them around the face:

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Step 6

We can further add some ice texture over the face. Load the “ice” 2 image (pick one from the pack) into Photoshop, and select a portion with the Lasso Tool as shown below:

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Copy and paste a few of those selections onto our document, change the layer blending mode to “screen” for those new ice layers and use the free tranform tool to adjust their shape as you see fit. Here is the effect so far:

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Step 7

We’re almost done! To fine-tune the effect, I added the following image adjustment layers on top of all previous layers:

Selective color

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Curves

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And here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

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That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

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The Creation of “Dragon Mountain” Digital Art in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps to Design “Dragon Mountain” Digital Art in Photoshop. This is a good example to show you a few simple methods to blending objects together in Photoshop, and edit them with various image adjustment tools. This is an intermediate level tutorial, have a try!

The concept behind this work is that a dragon die centuries ago, and the body become part of the mountain. The time has come for the dragon to be resurrected by a unknown dark force.

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Mountain 1

Mountain 2

Dragon

Rock

Step 1

Create a new document with a dark grey background, document size 1280px * 800px. Load the “Mountain 1″ image into Photoshop and select the sky and mountain part of the image:

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Copy and paste the selection onto our document, resize it as shown below:

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Add a layer mask to this mountain layer, use a soft eraser to fade the following red area of on the mountain layer:

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Add the following adjustment layers on top of this mountain layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 2

Let’s add the dragon in. Load the Dragon stock into Photoshop and select the head and neck part as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection into Photoshop and resize it, use a soft eraser to blend the neck with the mountain:

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Add the following adjustment layers as clipping mask to this dragon layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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On the levels adjustment’s layer mask, use the following brush as eraser, remove the red portion as shown below:

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This will give the dragon an ancient, decaying effect.

Step 3

We will add some rock texture onto the dragon. Load the “Mountain 2″ image into Photoshop. Select a portion of the texture as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our document, set the layer as clipping mask and change the blending mode to “Overlay”, you will have the following effect:

Hint: Optionally, you can use the Black and White adjustment layer on this rock texture layer to adjust the colour tone.

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We will add some flying rock around the dragon. Load the Rock image into Photoshop and select a portion as shown below with Lasso Tool:

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Copy and paste the selection over and make a few duplications, resize and scatter them around the dragon’s header:

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Step 4

I decided to add some meteor shower effect into the image. Let’s select one piece of rock from the Rock image:

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Copy and paste it over to our document. Then create a new layer and paint a orange dot as shown below with a soft brush:

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Paint a smaller with dot in the centre of the orange dot:

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Use the free transform tool to distort the image as shown below:

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Put those layers into a layer group, duplicate this layer group a few times and

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I slightly adjust the colour with a color balance adjustment layer, and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

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Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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The Creation of “Doom Bringer” Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps to create this “Doom Bringer” Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop. Along the way, we will practice cloud rendering, some simple photo retouch techniques, image adjustments, and a few tricks on how to seamless merge several objects together.

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Cloud Brush

Model

Ground

Fire

Rock

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1400px * 740px with black background. Create a new layer and use a big soft brush, paint a white circle in the centre of the canvas as shown below:

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Select the eraser tool, pick a cloud brush from the pack you downloaded and use it as an eraser:

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Eraser the centre portion of the white dot with this eraser tool:

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Use the free transform tool to adjust the shape of the cloud – expand, distort and rotate it as you see fit:

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Optionally, we can use a particle brush to paint some dusts around the cloud, this is totally up to you:

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Step 2

We will now work on adding a ground for our image. Load the ground texture into Photoshop and select the ground portion of the image with quick selection tool:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our document. Resize it to fit our canvas width and use a soft eraser tool to remove some parts of the ground to add some irregular lighting effect:

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Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping mask to this ground layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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Curves

2 curves The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

and this is the effect you will have so far for the ground layer:

2 effect 500x79 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 3

It’s time to add our warrior in. Load the model image into Photoshop and cut out the model, paste it onto our document. Resize and position it to the centre of ground as shown below:

3 paste 500x430 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Add a layer mask to this model layer, and use a soft eraser with 40% flow and opacity setting, fade the feet area of the model a little so it blends into the ground:

3 cloud 500x208 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Sharpen the model layer with a unsharp mask filter as shown below:

3 unsharp mask The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping mask to this model layer:

Black and White

3 bw The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Apply the following layer mask on the black and white adjustment layer:

3 bw mask The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Levels

3 lvs The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Curves

3 curves The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Create a new layer over all the previous layer and set its blending mode to “overlay”, paint a white dot to the area shown below to add some shining light to the axe:

3 highlight 500x342 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

3 effect The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 4

We will add the fire into the image now. Load the fire image into Photoshop and select the following portion:

4 sel 500x434 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection over to our image, resize it and put it over the arm, set its blending mode to “Overlay”:

4 overlay 500x249 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

 

Then repeat this above process, copy and paste more fire texture over to the left shoulder as well:

4 overlay 2 500x276 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Go on and add more fire pattern to the model, remember to set the layer blending mode to “screen” for the rest of the fire texture layers:

4 more fire 500x369 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

To spice up the effect, we can use a golden, 1 px hard brush, paint some fiery lines around the model, use eraser tool to fade the lines as you go:

4 fire lines 500x252 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 5

We will add some floating mountain in. It’s really simple to create a simple floating mountain, all you need is the right stock image as a starting point

Let’s load the rock stock image you downloaded, and use the quick selection tool to select a rough piece as shown below:

5 select rock 500x489 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection over to our canvas, resize and rotate it as shown below:

5 paste 500x347 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Use a soft eraser tool, fade the edges until it forms the following triangular shape:

5 mask 500x372 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Use the burn tool with 50% exposure, darken the lower portion of the floating mountain as shown below:

5 burn 500x258 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Then duplicate this mountain layer once, reduce the size and move it up to to the position shown below:

5 more rock 500x270 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 6

We will add some flying particles with a small dot brush, or a particle brush size with golden/red colour:

6 paint 500x259 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Then apply the following Liquify Filter setting to this particle layer:

6 liq setting The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

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As you can see, by doing so we add some flying effect to those still particles, as shown below:

6 effect 500x300 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 7

We’re almost done! For some final retouches, I flattened the image and duplicated the background layer, applied the following Radial Blur settings:

7 radial 500x343 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

Add the following layer mask to this radial blur layer, this way only the blur part of the cloud around the model is revealed:

7 blur mask 500x267 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

We can also use the Smudge Tool to manipulate the fire:

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Warp the fire as shown below:

7 smu 500x285 The Creation of Doom Bringer Fantasy Digital Art in Photoshop

And this is the final effect I have: (click to enlarge)

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Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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The Creation of “Stone Eagle” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps to create this “Stone Eagle” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop. We will cover the application of textures and the blending of different objects. We will also go through a number of selection tricks and image adjustments.

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Eagle (Registration required)

Rock (Stone)

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1000px * 1000px with black background. Use a light grey brush to paint a spot light in the centre:

1 light 500x497 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Load the stone image into Photoshop, select a piece from it as shown below:

1 sel 500x321 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection over to our document, set the new layer’s opacity to 60%, and use a soft eraser to fade the following areas as shown below:

1 erase1 500x172 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

De-saturate this layer, then add the following 2 adjustment layers on top:

Levels

1 lvs The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Curves

1 curves The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

1 effect 500x213 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 2

Now load the eagle image into Photoshop and cut the eagle out:

2 eagle 500x384 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Paste it onto our document, and use a soft eraser to fade the following parts for the eagle:

2 erase 500x345 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Sharpen the eagle layer by applying the following Unsharp Mask filter twice:

2 unsh The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Add the following adjustment layers as clipping mask to this eagle layer:

Black and White

2 bw1 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Levels

2 lvs The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Curves

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and here is the effect so far:

2 effect1 500x469 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 3

We will now add the stone texture onto the eagle. Firstly load the selection of the eagle layout:

3 sel 500x463 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Drag the selection over to the stone image, and select a piece as shown below:

3 move 500x404 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection over and cover the eagle as shown below:

3 paste1 500x499 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Set the layer blending mode to “Hard Light” for this new stone layer, and mask out the following area:

3 hard light 500x435 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Then, duplicate this stone layer and move them to different part of the canvas, as shown below:

3 dup 500x423 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

3 dup 2 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

3 effect2 500x396 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 4

We want to add some flying stone pieces around the eagle to add some dynamics into the image. So select a small piece from the stone texture as shown below:

4 sel1 500x479 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection over, and resize it as shown below:

4 paste The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Apply the following image adjustments:

Black and White

4 bw The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Levels

4 lvs The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Apply a slight motion blur to the stone as shown below:

4 mo blur The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Duplicate this layer a couple of times, and move them to different positions as shown below:

4 attach 500x383 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 5

We will add some final touches to the image to spice up the effect a little! We will use the brush tool to make this happen.

Firstly use a solid brush to draw a dot as shown below:

5 paint1 500x339 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Use the liquify filter to warp this dot as shown below:

5 liqui The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

This will form some liquid effect as shown below:

5 dup 500x392 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Use a soft brush to paint a dot on a new layer, then warp it as shown below:

5 warp set 500x364 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

This will form some lighting effect as shown below:

5 effect 2 500x550 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

I finally added some colour and cloud effect around the eagle, and this is the final effect I have: (click to enlarge)

stone eagle flatten 500x500 The Creation of Stone Eagle Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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  2. Vavious photo retouch and abstract effect tricks in Photoshop
  3. Advanced lighting effect rendering in Photoshop

About the Author

Kris Shields (Colour Drip) is a 23 Year Old Digital Artist/ Graphic Designer from the United Kingdom who aims to work with different styles and elements, blending reality with a range of colour and shinny goodness. He is currently working on a range of projects including digital illustrations, 3D renders, typography and collaborations with other young creative minds.

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Design “Lady Holding a Fire Orb” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps to”Lady Holding a Fire Orb” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop. We will mainly explore some interesting methods of applying texture, selection techniques, as well as layer blending options.

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model – by faestock

Rock

Fire

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1290px * 720px with white background. Create a new layer and use the Gradient Fill tool to fill the new layer as shown below (set the Gradient Tool to “Radial Gradient” at its option bar):

1 grad1 500x278 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 2

We will add the model onto our document. Load the model image into Photoshop and select the model:

1 sel 500x310 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, resize and place it in the centre of the canvas:

2 paste 500x278 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Add the following image adjustment layers as clipping mask for this model layer:

Black and white

2 bw Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Levels

2 lvs Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Layer mask on the above levels adjustment layer: (highlighted in red)

2 lv mask 500x534 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Curves

2 curves Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Gradient Map

2 grad Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Layer mask on the above Gradient Map adjustment layer:

2 grd map mask Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

and you will have the following effect so far:

2 effect1 500x413 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 3

We will add some rock texture onto our image. Load the rock texture into Photoshop and select a piece of the rock with the Quick Selection tool, as shown below:

3 sel 500x308 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, use the Free Transform tool distort and resize it. Then duplicate this layer once, and repeat this re-size process.

The goal is to form the texture into the following “Wing” shape:

3 paste1 500x376 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Optional step: you can use a soft eraser to remove some parts of rock texture, to give it a bit more depth:

3 erase 500x426 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Merge those two rock layers together, then add the following image adjustment layer on top:

Black and White

3 bw1 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Levels

3 lvs1 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Layer mask on this above levels adjustment layer:

3 lvs mask1 500x381 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Gradient Map

3 grad map Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Layer mask on the above Gradient Map layer:

3 grad map mask 500x335 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

3 effect1 500x318 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 4

We will further add some extra rock patterns to our image. Grad one more piece of rock texture from the stock image, and this time we will manipulate the texture so it forms a sharp angle as shown below, with the Free Transform Tool:

4 disto Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Apply the following Black and White adjustment to this layer:

4 bw Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Then duplicate this layer a few times – rotate, resize and attach them to the model as shown below:

4 attach 500x517 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 5

Noticed the lady is holding on crystal orb? We will add some fire to it. Load the fire stock image into Photoshop and select a piece as shown below:

5 fire Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection over to the orb, set the blending mode to “Pin Light”:

5 pin light 500x350 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

And here is the effect you will have:

5 overlay 500x346 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 6

We’re almost done! For some final touchups, I added some particle effect around the model:

6 part 2 500x236 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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Use the soft brush to paint some shadow under the model:

6 shad 500x217 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Add a Gradient Map adjustment layer to add some color to the image, withe the following settings:

6 grad map Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Layer mask on this Gradient Map layer:

6 layer mask 500x331 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

6 effect 500x301 Design Lady Holding a Fire Orb Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

I further adjusted the contrast slightly, and this is my final result: (click to enlarge)

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Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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The Creation of “Imminent Danger” Digital Art in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps of The Creation of “Imminent Danger” Digital Art in Photoshop, with elements such as urban building, grunge brushset and surreal lighting effect.

The aim of this tutorial to show you the methods you can use to mix grunge brushsets and stock image to create a unique environment, as well as the use of image adjustment layers to manipulate photos.

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model by ~tigersgirl

Flag

City Building

Grunge Brush

Cloud Brush

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1290px * 700px with black background. Create a new layer and use the grunge brushset you downloaded, paint some subtle grunge texture over the background:

1 bg texture 500x279 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Load the model image into Photoshop, and select the model as shown below with Quick Selection tool:

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Copy and paste the selection into our document, resize it as shown below:

1 paste 500x357 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

We want to sharpen the image a little bit, so go ahead and use Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask with the following settings:

1 unsharp mask The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this model layer:

Black and White

1 bw The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Layer mask on this black and white adjustment layer: (achieved with the grunge brushset)

1 bw mask 500x277 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Levels

1 lvs The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Curves

1 curves The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

As you can see, the layer mask on the black and white adjustment layer did much work for us and created this dirty texture, and here is the effect so far:

1 effect1 500x361 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 2

We can add attach a flag to the model for some extra flavour. Load this flag image into Photoshop and select the flag portion:

2 sel 500x296 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Copy and paste the flag over to our document, place it below the model layer, and use the grunge brush as eraser to remove parts of flag as shown below:

2 erase 500x294 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Add the following adjustment layers as clipping mask to this flag layer:

Black and white

2 bw1 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Levels

2 lvs1 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Curves

2 curves1 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

2 effect2 500x210 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

We want to group these flag layers into a folder, then duplicate this folder twice and attached them to the position shown below. This creates an impression that the flag is flying behind the model:

2 dup 500x257 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 3

We can add the building to our image now. Load the building stock into Photoshop and select the following portion:

3 sel1 500x585 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Copy and paste the selection over to our document, place it below the model layer but above the flag layer groups, resize and position it as shown below:

3 paste2 500x313 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Optionally you can duplicate this building layer and flip it vertically, attach the duplicate layer to the position below:

3 paste 2 500x297 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Use the grunge brushset, erase some parts of the building as shown below:

3 erase1 500x337 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping mask to this building layer:

Black and White

3 bw2 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Levels

3 lvs2 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Curves

3 curves1 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

3 effect2 500x314 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 4

We will want to add some supernatural lighting effect around the image. Grab the Rectangular Marquee Tool and set its Feather to 20px:

4 mar 500x262 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Draw a selection and fill it with colour as shown below:

4 fill The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Load the cloud brush into Photoshop, and select one of them as eraser:

4 xpl 500x220 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Remove the edges with this cloud brush:

4 erase The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Duplicate this layer once, and apply the following Hue/Saturation settings to the duplicated layer:

4 dup hue 500x376 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Compress the duplicated layer with free transform tool as shown below:

4 compress The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Merge the two layers and set a perspective to the merged layer as shown below:

4 persp 500x245 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Duplicate the selected layer a few times, adjust the size of each layer and the effect is shown below:

4 effect 500x182 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

Step 5

We’re almost done! To add some extra effects, we can use the cloud brush and paint some subtle cloud effect to the image:

5 cloud 500x273 The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

I further adjusted the colour with a colour balance adjustment layer: (Settings are as below)

5 col sha The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

5 col mid The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

5 col hig The Creation of Imminent Danger Digital Art in Photoshop

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Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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VIP Exclusive Photoshop Tutorial – Advanced Photo Retouch Techniques via Image Adjustment Layers

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Welcome to another Exclusive Photoshop tutorial written specifically for the PSD Vault VIP Members! In this tutorial, we will explain in detail about some Photo Retouch Techniques via Image Adjustment Layers you can apply to your photo, in order to make it look brilliant.

What You Will Learn

In this tutorial, you will learn:

  1. How small, subtle changes can make a big difference for your end result
  2. Advanced image adjustment and masking techniques
  3. Advanced Skin retouch techniques

This tutorial is written exclusively for PSD Vault by Kris Shields.

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The Creation Process of “Urbanized” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this “Urbanized” photo manipulation in Photoshop. The concept behind this work is that human is increasing living in a confined urban space and being consumed by the endless expansion of the cities.

I used 3 elements in this manipulation to represent the theme “Urbanized”:

  1. Human Portrait
  2. Urban Street Sign and Building
  3. Scraps

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model

Urban Street

Scrap

Grunge Brushset (Pick one set from the list)

Step 1

Create a new document sized 950px * 1230px with black background. Load the model image into Photoshop and cut out the model part, paste it onto our document. Adjust the size to fit our canvas:

1 sel 550x358 The Creation Process of Urbanized Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

I wanted to smooth out the skin a bit, by applying the following Surface Blur setting:

1 sur The Creation Process of Urbanized Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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and here is the effect so far:

1 effect1 550x423 The Creation Process of Urbanized Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Step 2

You can use the grunge brushset you download as eraser, remove the red (mask) past of the human layer:

2 mask 544x700 The Creation Process of Urbanized Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

As you can see, I deliberately applied the erase around the cheek, and the shoulder area: (This will make way for our next step, which is to add the building and scrap texture around the model)

2 grunge 550x330 The Creation Process of Urbanized Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this model layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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and you will have the following effect so far:

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Step 3

We will add some city settings into the image. Load the city image into Photoshop and select the left portion as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our document, place it on the right side of the canvas, and put the layer below the model layer.

Then, add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this new building layer:

Black and White

3 bw The Creation Process of Urbanized Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Layer mask on this black and white adjustment layer:

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Levels

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Go back to the city image and select the shop sign:

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Copy and paste the selection to our document and place it down the bottom right, and set the blending mode to “Overlay”:

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Step 4

We can add the scrap texture into our image. Load the Scrap stock into Photoshop and use the Quick Selection tool to select a piece as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our document, use the Warp option in the Free Transform Tool to adjust its shape as shown below:

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Once you’re happy with the shape, add the following Levels adjustment layer as clipping mask to this scrap layer:

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And this is the you should be aiming to achieve:

4 effect The Creation Process of Urbanized Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

We can go back to the Scrap stock image and select a few small pieces of the scrap, and paste them back to our document. This gives the image a break-apart effect:

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Step 5

We’re almost done! To add some final touches to the photo, I flattened the image and duplicated the background layer, apply the following Smart Sharpen filter to the duplicate layer:

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Apply the following layer mask to this sharpened layer to hide some parts of it:

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Apply the following adjustment layers to add some color to the image:

Selective Color

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Color Balance

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Optional Step: I added a bigger sign on top, with the “Overlay” layer blending mode:

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and here is the final effect: (click to enlarge)

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Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop. I will show some interesting methods to rendering the electrified orbs by utilizing lightning textures and various Photoshop tools.

We will go through manipulation techniques such as clipping mask, layer mask, layer blending modes and image adjustment layers.

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model

Stone Wall

Space Background

Lightning Texture

Step 1

Create a new document sized 860px * 1130px with black background. Create a new layer and use a soft, light-grey brush to paint a spot light from the centre of the canvas:

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Load the model image into Photoshop, select the head portion and paste into our document, resize and position it to the centre as shown below:

1 paste 550x537 Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Step 2

Use a soft erase to remove/fade the edges around the face as shown below:

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Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this model layer:

Black and White

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Levels

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Layer mask on this levels adjustment layer above:

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Curves

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and here is the effect so far:

2 effect2 Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Step 3

We can now add some roughness to the face with this stone texture. Let’s use the Lasso tool to draw a selection as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our image, put the layer above all previous layers and set it as a clipping mask to the model layer:

3 clipping mask Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Change this layer blending mode to “Vivid Light” for this stone texture layer, with 70% opacity:

3 vivid light 550x433 Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Apply the following layer mask on this stone texture layer:

3 mask Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

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Step 4

We can add some cloud around the model with the cloud filter, or a cloud brush:

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We can also warp the cloud to add some motions into the image:

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You can check out this video tutorial below (start from 5:15) to find out how to do a cloud warp:

We can now add some space background into our image. Load the space image into Photoshop and select a piece as shown below with a 40px feather Lasso Tool:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our document, put the new layer below the model layer:

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Duplicate this space layer once and apply the following Levels adjustment (Ctrl + L):

4 star lvs Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Change the layer blending mode of this duplicated layer to “Screen”:

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Reduce the size of this duplicated space layer with free transform tool, and you will have the following effect:

4 effect1 Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

We want repeat the above process and add more space texture around the image, as shown below:

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Step 5

We will start make the orbs now. Let’s grab a white, solid brush and paint a dot as shown below:

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Then use a soft eraser with a slight larger size, do a few clicks to the part of the circle shown below:

5 erase Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Then, use a soft white brush to paint a dot in the position shown below, and you will have the following effect:

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That’s it for the orb-making! Repeat this process and add a few more orbs as shown below:

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Step 6

We will add some electrified effect around the orb. Load the lightning image into Photoshop. Use the Lasso Tool with a 30 feather setting to select a portion as shown below:

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Copy and paste the selection over to our image, then apply the following image adjustments to it:

6 bw Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

6 lvs Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Change the layer blending mode to “Vivid Light”:

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Duplicate this lightning twice and attach them to the orbs, and here is the effect you will have:

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Step 7

We’re almost done! To add some colours to our image, add the following image adjustment layers:

Selective Color

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7 whites Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

7 neutrals Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

7 blacks Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Curves

7 curves Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Optionally, you can use a particle brush to paint some particles around image:

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I further added some shining lighting effect around the image, and here is the final effect: (click to enlarge)

sci fi face manip flatten 532x700 Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this create an intriguing manipulation by mixing nature and grunge elements in Photoshop. This will be an interesting experiment for you to use tools such as image adjustment layers and layer blending modes, as well as practice the use of liquify filter and brush tool.

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

grunge nature scene 2 flatten 538x700 Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Grunge Brushset (Pick a few from the list)

Model by ~Neriah-stock

Nature Photo

Step 1

Create a new document sized  900px * 1169px with black background. Use the the grunge brushset you download, paint some random patterns on the canvas as shown below.

Hint: You will need to set the brush flow and opacity to around 40%-60% in order to achieve more depth. You can use eraser tool to fade certain areas of the painting as well.

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Cut out the female from the model stock image and paste it over to our document, resize it as shown below:

1 paste 550x483 Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

Use the Surface Blur to smooth out the model layer with the following settings:

1 surf blur Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

Then we can use the grunge brushset as eraser, remove the edges of the model layer as shown below:

1 erase 2 Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

Please note that you can adjust the opacity and flow of the eraser tool to add more depth when removing the body texture:

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Step 2

We can now add the following adjustment layers as clipping mask to this model layer:

Black and White

2 bw Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

Apply the following layer mask on this black and white adjustment layer:

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and this mask will create the following “Highlight” effect:

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Levels

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Apply the following layer mask on this levels adjustment layer:

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Use a soft white brush, paint a shining dot over the mode’s eye, this will create a surreal effect for our image:

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and here is the overall effect so far:

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Step 3

We will add the nature pattern into our image. Load the nature photo into Photoshop and use the Lasso Tool to select a piece of the grass and flower as shown below:

Note: set the Feather value to 40% for this lasso tool.

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Copy and paste the selection to our document, apply the following levels adjustment settings to this new nature layer:

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Change the blending mode of this layer to “Screen”:

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and you will have the following effect:

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We can duplicate this nature a few times and attach them to different parts of the body, as shown below:

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Step 4

We will add some liquify effect to our document. Create a new layer and use a lime/yellow brush to paint a line as shown below:

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Go to the liquify settings under the “Filter” top menu, grab the forward warping tool and set it according to the following values:

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Warp this line as shown below:

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Then, use a soft brush to paint some soft dots connecting the lines:

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Step 5

We will now add some touch-ups for our image. We can flatten the layers and apply this following Unsharp Mask filter to sharpen the image a bit:

5 unsharp Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

This unsharp mask filter will make the details of the nature pattern stand out:

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We can also render some cloud down the bottom with the cloud filter, or brush. Remember to keep this cloud effect subtle by reducing the layer opacity to around 30%:

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I then adjusted the colour balance a bit with the colour balance adjustment layer, and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

grunge nature scene 2 flatten 538x700 Create Intriguing Manipulation by Mixing Nature and Grunge Elements in Photoshop

That’s it! Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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The Process of Creating the “Ascending Spirit” Digital Art in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process of I used to create this ”Ascending Spirit” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop. Along the way, you will practice a number of photo manipulation techniques such as image adjustment, layer blending, texturing, as well as some brush painting skills.

This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

departing spirit flatten 494x700 The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Rock

Model – by mjranum-stock

Fire

Step 1

Create a new document sized 800px * 1132px with black background. Load the Rock image into Photoshop and select a piece of the rock, copy and paste to our document:

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Use a soft eraser to remove/fade the following parts of the rock texture:

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Add the following image adjustment layer on top of the rock texture:

Black and White

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Levels

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 2

Load the model image into Photoshop.  Cut out the model and paste it onto our document. I would like to extend the hair a little down to the left side, so I use the clone stamp tool to clone some of the hair, as shown below:

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and here is the clone effect:

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Use a soft eraser, remove the bottom part of the model as shown below:

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Add the following image adjustment layers as clipping masks to the model layer:

Black and White

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On the black and white adjustment layer, erase the following parts to reveal the layer below:

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Levels

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Curves

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Layer mask on the curves adjustment layer:

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and here is the effect so far:

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Step 3

Now we can add the fire texture to the image. Load the fire image into Photoshop and select the fire:

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Copy and paste the selection onto the left arm of the model:

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Hit Ctrl + U and apply the following Hue/Saturation settings as shown below:

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Then change the layer blending mode to “Screen”:

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Set this fire layer as a clipping mask to the model layer (put it above all previous adjustment layers):

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and you will have the following effect:

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Step 4

We will be adding more fire textures onto our image. Repeat the above step and paste another fire texture onto our document, grab the liquify tool:

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And use the liquify tool to warp the fire texture as shown below:

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Then resize this warped fire layer to a small strip, and attach it to the right arm, as shown below:

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Copy and paste more fire texture and add it to the right side of the image, use the Warp option from the free transform tool to adjust its shape:

4 warp 550x387 The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

We can add some more fire particles onto the image, by selecting the smaller bits from the fire stock image:

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You can also use the blur tool to blur some of the fire particle to add some motion:

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4 blur effect The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

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Step 5

We can now add some cloud effect down the bottom of the model, either with a cloud brush, or cloud filter:

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Use a soft white brush, paint some highlight dots above the cloud:

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Use the perspective option to adjust the highlight if necessary:

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We can also add some fire patterns over the background as shown below, with a hard, red colour brush:

5 fire 550x368 The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

Make sure you set this layer blending mode to “Vivid Light”:

5 vivid light 550x323 The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

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Step 6

Ok we’re almost done! We will be adding some final touches to the image in this step.

If you have Photoshop CS6, you can flatten the image, duplicate the background layer and apply the Oil Paint filter to the duplicated layer:

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The Oil Paint Settings:

6 oil set The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

This will add some paint effect to the image, but we don’t want the image to look like paining. So apply the following layer mask to the oil paint layer:

6 oil mask The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

and here is the effect so far:

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I further added some colour with the colour balance adjustment tool, and here is my final result: (click to enlarge)

departing spirit flatten 494x700 The Process of Creating the Ascending Spirit Digital Art in Photoshop

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy going through it and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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