it is always good to keep a copy of the original image in a layer.

I will now adjust the color of the photo to a dark tone:
go to Image - Adjustments - Curves:

With the Pen Tool draw a white shape like in the picture below

Now you have to duplicate this layer and rasterize it. Go to Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 2,5 pixels. Delete the middle part to see the face of the girl.
Now duplicate this layer and with gaussian blur set the radius to 4 pixels…
Duplicate again the layer and with gaussian blur set the radius to 6 pixels. Go to Blending Options and choose the Color Overlay : 0084ff, opacity 100% , blend mode : normal
You can actually play with the size of the initial shape if you want to obain a bigger aura…or you can choose different colors for the aura layers if you want a multi color aura.

This is my the result:

Ice Text

Electric ice text

Ice text

Ice text

MORE TEXT EFFECTS

Go to Image - Adjustments - Color balance and do the following settings.

Shadows: 30;0;-15
Midtones: 45;0;0
Highlights:20;0;-10

You can make another settings it depends on how is your bread looking.

Now duplicate this layer .
Draw a logo or choose Custom shape tool and choose a shape from the list. I choose Hedere 2. For this shape you need to go to Blending Options and for Stroke set 2 px and color braun.

Now merge the 2 layers , the one with the shape and the Copy of the bread.With the Magic wand tool select the Hedera shape and delete its content.

NOW it is time for a little inspiration…take the Burn Tool and brush 15, range: shadows, exposure: 10% and start burning the lines of the Hederea shape. Do this many times until it starts looking like toasted bread. Remember that the toasted bread it is not equal so you burn in some places more in some places less.
Go to the other bread layer and burn a little…you can also dodge the both layers to create contrast areas like i did…

Now as you can see we have a nice hedera logo on the bread but its shape is too obvo=ious like it was drawn not toasted. So go to Filter - Liquify - and with the Forward Warp Tool , brush size 7 , go up and down making the hedera shape not so obvious.

Ladies and gentlemen and rokesoke( ) the final result:

Toasted bread photoshop

Today i want to make a cartoon rainbow …i really hope you will like it!
You can actually integrate this rainbow in your future vector design.

The rainbow contains as we know six colors.
We will star by creatinga new document 400×400 pixels.
There are many ways of drawing a rainbow, with the Pen Tool for example.
But i will use another tehnique, the easiest i guess:
1. with the Elipse Tool draw a circle with color red. You need to right click the layer and choose Blending Options; Stroke 1px and the color light orange.
2. duplicate this layer - go to Edit - Transform Path - Scale and do the following settings :for the width 85% and height 85%; now color this circle orange
3.duplicate this layer, scale againg with 85% and choose yellow color
4.do the same with the other layers. the colors for the rainbow are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.
You will obtain something like this:

Now select all six layers and scale them with width 120% and height 140%.
Now duplicate the purple layer and scale it 80% both with and height and make it white.
Select all the layers, right click and choose Merge layers.

With the Polygonal Lasso tool select and than delete the bottom part of the rainbow.

To give it some contrast choose Burn Tool and burn the lines of every color….take the Dodge tool and give some light areas.

Right click on the layer and Choose Blending options and do the following settings.

Now play with opacity, i choose 85 % and this is the result

COMING SOON

Lets start with a few simple steps! Go to http://www.stockvault.net/People_g22-Stop_Let_me_out._p6809.html and download that photo.

Before frozen effect

Ice Settings

Select the Dodge tool brush:64; range:midtones ; expossure :100% and lighten all the areas of the photo until you obtain an icey effect/color.

Go to Edit menu- Transform - Rotate and set the angle to 90 degrees
Now go to Filter - Stylize - Wind and do the following settings

Now rotate de photo back, entetering -90 degrees angle. You can if you want to dodge some areas to make it lighter it depends on how you want to look the photo. You also can play with other color tones…it is up to you.

I have decided to add extra ice to the background, to the door actually…For that you need to create another layer. In this layer create a vertical light blue line; weight :1-2px. Go to Filter - Stylize - Wind and do the settings shown earlier…but this time twice or even three times it depends on the result that you like.

Right click an the name of the layer and select Blending Options….choose inner glow : white color ; opacity 70 %.

You can now duplicate this windy line and easily add it to any parts you want…i’ve added to the top of the door…. It is also important to skew the ice to blend in with the photo perspective.(Image - Transform - Skew)

You can also play with different color tones for the ice….it is also important to softly delete (Eraser Too 15% opacity) parts of the ice to look that it is from the picture, to blend in.

This is the result so far:

It looks pretty good i might say but if you want to add some extra effect. Duplicate the Girl Layer, go to Filter - Brush Strokes - Accented Edges - Edge Width: 1 Edge Brightness: 32 Smoothness: 1 OK Now you can leave it like this or you can set the opacity of this layer at 65% like i did.

Finally the result:

Frozen Ice Woman

Today I will try to create a an old parchment that looks like a page out of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex. As you probably know the Renaisance master kept several books with sketches ranging from mechanical inventions to art studies to anatomical studies. I will try to make a page that looks like it’s hand drawn using ink, making it look like an old and ruffled piece of paper. It will be like a study made by Leonardo on the spiral shape. The “Golden Spiral” is a geometry term that designates a spiral with a grow rate equal to the “Golden Ratio” - a number defining perfect proportions that was used by all great masters of the Renaisance. But enough background story, let’s begin….

I will start with an image of a snail shell, or is it a nautilus shell? Whatever…

Shell

Using the wand tool I carefully remove the background and get something like this

The same for the other shell. Good, now we have the 2 main items of the drawing. What we need now is the paper on which to draw. Ok, so it should look old and ruffled. What that means is that we have to somehow mix the 2 (old look and ruffled) like this: take an image of a ruffled paper like this one

and do some alpha blending it with a background yellow-old-paper (I used #DDCD7F but you can play in that area). If you do some very light burning on the image and then apply some blur to even the colors you should get something like this

Ok, now we have the paper to draw on, we have the subject, how do we get it ON the paper looking like it has been drawn there? Copy the snail in a layer over the paper. Let’s de-saturate it all the way, that’s right make it so it doesn’t have colors anymore. Now increase it’s contrast almost to the max… well, you decide to what point. Decrease the opacity of the snail layer to about half and you can also try and do a blending based on dark tones. If all goes well you should get something like this

Hey, looks pretty good! Let’s see what else can we add? We can add some other drawings using the same de-saturate and high contrast technique. Also let’s add some text… what would the master attach as a comment to the drawings? Well doing some research we find out that Leonardo made his notes using latin (probably using google translator as he was italian so he had no other way to speak a dead language). So we can do the same… unfortunately google doesn’t support latin any more (booooo!) but there are several other translators for latin out there. To make it sort of realistic I used a font that looks like hand writing (you can do a search on the internet, download it and install it). To make it even more realistic I have used some quotes from the master’s writings and also some words about the “golden spiral” - “spiralis aureus” in latin, and a description of Fibonacci numbers - remember the “golden ratio” or the perfect proportion mentioned earlier, well it has something to do with Fibonacci numbers.

Finally here is the result

Hope you enjoyed it and I’m waiting your comments and questions! I’m not too good detailing all the steps but if you don’t get some steps to work the same for you ask and I will try to help. Bye!

1. Make a new layer with a black square…. BACKGROUND LAYER
2. Make a new layer with a text “FUEGO” fire in spanish and the style Futura Md BT, color RGB 240;70;44 …….RED LAYER
3. Duplicate this layer and make text white…….FIRE BOTTOM

Select layer FIRE BOTTOM and Edit - Transform - Rotate angle 90 degree. We will add a Wind Filter and that filter only works on horizontal. We will rotate this layer back.

For FIRE BOTTOM layer go to Filter - Stylize - Wind , select From the Left option. Apply this filter twice or three times it is up to you.
You should have something like this

Now rotate the layer back to horizontal.
Go to Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur and choose 1,7.

VERY IMPORTANT
!!!!!!!!!!!Merge the FIRE BOTTOM with the BACKGROUND layer

Now go to Filter - Liquify and with the Turbulence Tool size 7; density 100; pressure 49 and from left to right start making waves.

Lets add some color. Select Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation and select Colorize so we can fiddle with the color. Bring Saturation up to 100 and set Hue to about 40.

Duplicate this colorized layer and select this duplicate in the layers palette. Select Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation again, this time with Colorize off. Set the Hue to -20 to make the flames red. Set the Blending Mode of this duplicate layer to Overlay. Now we’ve got some nice looking flames:

Now bring to front the RED Layer and right click on the layer name and choose Blending options:

Now Image - Transform - Scale a little the text
Now go to Filter - Liquify and with the Turbulence Tool brush between 4 and 7 and play with density , pressure , rate to see whici is the best for you.

Now you can burn with the Burn Tool, Dodge etc the two colorized layers and also you can liquify more for give another shape to the flames.

The final result

Name this layer Before Layer.
Scale the image because is too big….
Duplicate the layer and call it Red Skin Layer.
Duplicate again the layer and call it Scar Layer.

Lets work with Red Skin Layer. Go to Image - Adjustments - Color Balance and make the following settings:
Shadow:50;0;-20
Midtones:100;0;0
Highlights:0;0;0

Lets work with Scar Layer.
Make a selection like in the picture above

Go to Image - Adjustments - Color Balance and make the following settings:
Shadow:10;0;0
Midtones:41;0;-14
Highlights:0;0;0
Now take the Spot Healing Brush Tool and make the selection blend in with the rest of the skin. (brush 8 ; mode: normal)
Burn the selected area (brush:13; range:midtones;exposure:9%) to look like little burn flash areas.
Make another selection and delete that selection.

Right click on the layer name and choose Blending Options and do the following settings

For this tutorial you need to go to this site
http://www.stockvault.net/People_g22-Woman_and_the_Wine_p4106.html
and download this young woman photo.

Go to Image - Adjustments - Color Balance and make the following settings:
Shadow:4;-11;-11
Midtones:27;-16;-16
Highlights:0;0;0

Go to Red Skin Layer and burn the scar area…not all the scar…burn parts to give some texture.
Return to Scar Layer and choose the Sponge Tool (brush:43; mode:saturate; flow 8%) and cover parts of the skin closer to the scar area. I didn’t like the scar area so i took the Eraser Tool and delete a little the scar shape making it wider.
The result is this:

I think that the scar stroke is too dark so return to the belending options of the layer Scar and put another color.
Noe i came up with another idea if you find it better use it;go to Red Skin layer and with Eraser Tool brush:4 ; opacity 23% make some rounded lines …

FINAL RESULT

Burn Scar