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Hello friends!
Today we will try to make a nice photo effect from a bengal tiger picture.
Here is our photo:

1. Ok name this layer with the tiger Background Tiger.

2. Duplicate this layer and call it BlackWhite Tiger. Desaturate this layer

3. Duplicate BlackWhite Tiger and call it Effect Tiger. Now choose Foreground color black and Background color a blue turquoise. Go to Filter – Sketch – Photocopy. Now go to Blending options and choose Overlay.

4. We have a blue photo result but we need a bicolor one so select BlackWhite Tiger Layer and easy delete with Eraser Tool (100%) the background of the tiger…and you will see the green grass from the first layer. Also delete the eyes iris.

5. Go to Background Tiger Layer and color with Brush Tool (40%) the grass with a bright green. Color also the eyes.

Now merge the 3 layers. With Burn Tool, burn the areas that you like…the shape of the tiger for example to give a conttrast to the photo.

Go to Filter – Texture – Texturizer(texture canvas) …i put this effect twice…to look line a canvas painting.

And here is the result!

Of course if u dont like blue and green u can choose whatever color/animal u like…..if you make something nice put a comment with a link to your photo

Hello! Today i want to make a Manga Cartoon Girl.

This is the starting photo.

First i want to hide the necklace, eyebrows, nose and mouth with Clone Stamp Tool and with Blur Tool.
With Brush Tool draw a little nose, a mouth and eyebrows. Color the mouth with white. The line for the Brush Tool will be a dark color.
Be carefull to adjust the opacity to realize a better result.

Now you have to work with the eyes….Go to Filter – Liquify – and make the eyes bigger….closer to the shape of a manga girl eyes…hide whatever is necesary. Now create to dark brown circles and place it in the eye area…draw 2 white circles and place it also in the eye area…like in the picture above.

Manga Girl

Take the Burn Tool and darken the hair areas and the shape of the face.

Now merge all the layers and call the new layer Back Layer.

We can now duplicate this layer and call it Effect.
Set the background color orange and the foreground color dark brown. Go to Filter – Sketch – Photocopy and Detail 2 and Darkness 25 OK.
Go to Blending Options and choose Overlay 100%.

This is the effect

Now in this Effect Layer choose a yellow orange color and brighten the areas that you want….and hide some areas..playing with opacity.

Go to Back Layer now and start painting. Choose a foreground color for the hair(i choose a tone of orange) and opacity 50 % and paint easily the hair. With Burn Tool(40%) darken the painted areas. Color the eyes with blue and that is it!
The result:

Manga Girl

Hi everybody!

Lets try today to do an elf of the forest from a beautiful girl.
This is the starting photo

Ok, now go to Image – Adjustment – Color Balance and give the photo a green look.
Shadows(0;91;35), Midtones(0;69;36), Highlights(0;55;20)

It is time to add some ears…as you can see in this photo the ears are not visible….fin a photo with a girl with ears….delete the head between the ears and scale the image…..place the ears in the right place. Now make de ears look like they belong to this girl….make the same green color.
Now you can merge the 2 layers. Burn the areas near the eras to fit to the hair.
Now go to Filter – Liquify and make the eras longer with Forward Warp Tool….Use the same tool to make the lips bigger…Find a white-green color and with the Brush Tool(opacity 22%) easy color the mouth.

Now take the Burn Tool (brush 15, exposure 50%) and star burning the hair, the eyebrows, the eyes, hair shape….until you obtain a nice contrast. Hide the earrings with Clone Stamp Tool or another method that you know….burn again and blur to look real…Hide the necklace with the same method.

Now your photo looks like this

OK – NOW IT BEGINS THE SECON PART
Duplicate this layer an name it Effect layer.
We will now work only with effect layer.
Set Background color brite orange and Foreground color dark green.
Go to Filter – Sketch – Photocopy
Now go to Blending options of this layer and choose Overlay 100%.

Do you like this effect? You can go even depper and start painting….Choose a color closer to the foregroud color and paint this layer the parts that you want to hide…or choose a light tone of orange to highlight cheeks, shoulders, etc….for contrast.

Your result finally!

What is your favorite book??
My favorite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, so today i will try to create a cover for this book.

First i have to determin the style of the book: lets say it is a romantic novel with a lot of comic accents…

First i will have to see some of the covers that have been made for the book and movie, to be sure i dont do the same….and of course it is useful also for inspiration.

I choose this image from an older movie

And i will Crop Elizabeth image. I will hide Mr. Darcy’s hair with Clone Stamp Tool(S) and than with Spot Healing Brush Tool(J). Use the Blur Tool to this area for a better result.

Lets play with colors; open the Image – Adjustment – Color Balance and do the following settings :
Shadows (Color Levels -15;1;-12)
Midtones(Color Levels -13;8;-22)
Highlights(Color Levels 2;1;-17) OK

With Burn Tool darken parts of the hair that already have dark color to make a bigger contrast.

Now duplicate the first layer; set foreground color a dark brown and go to Filter – Sketch – Photocopy (Detail 2 and Darkness 32)
Now you have something like that:

Now set foreground color white and with Brush Tool and opacity 50% hide partial the little points from the skin, background, hair,neck etc.Whiten the mouth area because the mouth has to be natural.
With 26% Blur Tool – blur the second layer on backgroud,hair,skin,etc.

Ok now take this picture of Mr.Darcy

and do all the steps that you have done to Elizabeth photo.
Copy parts of Elizabeth background and add it to Mr. Darcy’s photo so that it looks from the same picture….blur to look more real
Copy a rose photo and change the Color Balance to a yellow tone. Now duplicate, filter-photocopy and change Blending Option to Color Burn. Now place the rose into Elizabeth hair to look more romantic.
The rose i’ve used is this

Insert a new layer and name it Title. Draw a white square and in this square place the title of the Book and the author:
Lucinda Sans Typewriter , Regular, 18 pt for the author , color orange.
BankGothic Md BT , Regular, 20 pt for the title, scale the hight and make it dark green.
Now merge the 3 layers: white square, title and author….modify the shape of the square like in the picture above and for this layer go to Blending Options and Check Drop Shadow.

And for the final touch with Burn Tool, adjust the Title and the Author giving a little inner shadows.

And here is the result:

Hello!
Today i want to play with Blending Options and see what is the result!
First layer is the photo of a boy:

Duplicate the first layer and go to Filter – Sketch – Photocopy and choose Detail 3 and Darkness 26. By the way set the foreground color a dark tone closer to black.

Now go to Blending Options of this layer (right click on the layer name)
and choose:

1. Overlay

2.Darken

3. Soft Light

You can try all the effects in this Blending Options List to see which you like best….

Hi again!
Today i will try to retouch an ugly Britney Spears photo with a new beautifull Britney.

Lets start right now! The image is this one

Image-Adjustments-Color balance Shadows (15 Red), Midtones (24 Red 22 Yellow), Highlights (16 Red 20 Yellow).
Use the Spot Healing Brush Tool to heal the wrinkles from the neck, face, etc….You have to be careful to look real …After all this retouch is done use the Blur tool (strenght 40 % or less) to soften the skin. You have to blur first the skin, than the nose; for the mouth use 15 % strenght Blur.

For a brighter skin i preffer to paint it with Brush Tool with a light tone of rose…opacity 15 % and than use also Image – Adjustments – Brightness/Contrast (brightness 20)
Now pick Filter – Liquify and with the Forward Warp Tool easyly lift the eyebrows and the corner of the eye…and also make the eyes a little bigger.

Put a little makeup with Brush Tool.
Select the eyes and put some color…i’ve used green but you can play with other tones.

Select the hair and from Color balance put a little red accents; cover parts of the hair with Clone Stamp Tool and with Burn Tool accentuate the color for a better look.

Whiten the teeth, color the mouth with a red-orange (Brush Tool 45 % opacity) and with a color from the same palette paint the cheeks(opacity 15 %)…
For the background clone the soft blue color….

The result shoul be something like this

Waiting for comments!

I will now cover the eyebrows with skin and draw a soft line with the Brush Tool(B) size 3 and the color brown closer to the skin.

We have to take care of all the details of the face:

1. The eyes: paint the eyes to look exactly like the picture above

With the Eyedropper Tool(I) find the color of the part of the eye that you want to draw…make the eye from blurry well defined…Use white to make the eyes brighter

2. The nose has to be small and not very visible….where is dark color soften for a real doll.

3. The mouth: blur the skin of the mouth; cover the teeth; redraw the line of the mouth with the apropriate color; reshape the mouth until you like the result; pick a brighter color (red or something) and with Brush Tool color the mouth(i’ve used 22 % opacity…)…

4. Image- Adjustments- Color balance to obtain the color that you like….i’ve used red and yellow…Play with Brightness/Contrast and Curves to find a better result.

5. I also used a red color to paint the cheeks(opacity 15% and than blur).

6. For the hair i’ve used a google photo….the color of the hair was to yellow so i used Color balance to integrated with the rest of the image…i ve cut the hait to follow the shape of the face….i’ve used Burn Tool (O) size 8 exposure 13 % to darken some parts of the hair…The Burn Tool is also useful for other parts of the face…use it with low exposure whenever you want to underline some part of the face.

The final result is this! i hope you like it! If you have questions i will be happy to answer!

In this photoshop tutorial i will try to create a beautifull doll from a real girl. First i want to say that i am not a professional and that this tutorial can be made by almost everyone.

Lets begin!
My inspiration image was this:

And the final result

Because the image was too small i ‘ve scale it ; almost double the size.
I’ve started with the eyes…we all know that a doll has beautifull big eyes.
We have to lift the eyebrows…select them and move them with Move tool a little higher. Now select one eye at a time and scale it until u obtain something like this

Go to Filter – Liquify.. from the left toolbar choose Forward warp tool and ajust the shape of the eye until you obtain the shape that you like…I’ve used Brush Size 37, Brush density 9 and Brush Pressure 31.

Now select the nose and scale it to a little size to look like a doll nose
Select the mouth and scale the width to obtain a small mouth.
Pick Liquify tool again and reshape the face of the doll. Play with size of the brush to make a better reshape.

We have now a face with a lot of cuts but dont worry we will fix it. Pick the Clone Stamp Tool(S) from the left toolbar and start cloneing parts of the skin in the white areas….you have to be very patient to obtain a good result.

Choose Spot Healing Brush Tool (J) and fix the skin…easy heal all the areas that you cloned and than pick Blur Tool(R) Strenght 50 % to make a soft skin…be careful to blur only the skin(not the eyes,mouth), be careful when you blur the nose …the shape of the nose must be visible

As you can see a part of the face is blured and one not….After you will finish with the skin than you will have to Liquify the mouth once more to obtain a better shape with more defined lips and cover the teeth; than with blur tool soften the skin of the mouth.

Stay tuned for the second part of this tutorial!

Part 2