Type: Manipulation
Creator: Cory Ingeman aka Zero, Casino
Program: I used Adobe Photoshop Cs2 on it but I'm sure older and newer versions will work.
I’ll be showing you how I made this photo-manipulation.
Step 1-
I used the stock above.
Step 2-
I took out the smudge tool and started to smudge around her left
eye. I continued until I eventually got her eye fully covered.
I then went to Filter > Liquify and turned her smile into a frown
by grabbing one side of her lips and moving it down. Then doing
the same for the other side.
Ps. I’m not exactly sure what smudge settings I had. I’m sure it
was something with the Chalk brush though.
Step 3-
I took a simple round brish with 0% Hardness and like 3-5
pixel large. Place a white dote where her eye is and set it
to overlay. This kinda lighted up her right eye.
Step 4 -
I took a 1 pixel brush with 0% hardness and drew some lines.
For ex. down her right eye along her nose. Down the left
side of her lip, on her right cheek, and the side of where her
left eye was. Then get out your smudge tool and lightly smudge
the lines. I used Chalk - 17 for smudging. Then lower the opacity
of the layer to whatever you think looks good. Mine was around
50-60%
It makes the end result look better in my opinion
so I always do this step on my manipulations.
Step 5- (Left side = Before) (Right side = After)
Next I took a round brush with 0% hardness and went over
her eye and lips. Then I set the layer to soft light and got the
result.
Step 6-
Okay. This is the most time consuming step and probaly one
of the most important steps. What I did was got rid of the
thing she was wearing on her head. To do this I took the
Clone tool and used patience and went slowly. The above was
my end result of the clone tool.
There’s not much I can tell you for this step, just when doing
her hair clone from another piece of her hair evidently and so
forth.
Step 7-
I’m not sure why I did this because it is pretty much covered
up at the end result. Anyways, I’ll show you what I did. I took
a copy of my orginial stock and put it on top of all the layers.
I left at it Normal / 100%. I used the lasso tool to go around
the eye that I covered previously and feathered it just a bit.
Now her left eye is somewhat more visible.
Step 8-
I put that texture over my current image and set it to:
Overlay / 60% opacity
Then I desaturated it. (Ctrl+Shift+U)
Then I erased some parts that made it look bad, like over her
face and some on her body.
Step 9-
I put the picture of the skull (Left) over her face. I rotated it
around some and adjusted the height/width to make it look
pretty good on her. Then I set the layer to overlay and
desaturated it.
Step 10- (Time to add color)
I made a new layer and filled it black. Then I took a light
blue and with a large round brush (0% hardness) I put a
dot where I wanted lighting.
Screen/ 57% Opacity
I then duplicated the layer and used the following settings:
Screen/ 57% Opacity / 50% Fill
Step 11-
I added some a level layer adjustment to make things a bit
darker
Step 12- (Lighting)
I used two layers for lighting, above are what they look like in
normal 100% so you can get the idea. First one (Left) I have at
normal / 13% opacity and the second I have at Soft light / 35% Op.
Step 13-
I added black scanlines going diagonally. Most people don’t
like scanlines but I like them so I use them.I erased some over
her face and a bit around her chest. Other then that I lowered
the Opacity to 30%
Step 14-
New Layer > Apply Image
Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen
Step 15-
New Layer > Apply Image
Blur Tool > Blur around to make it more focused on the girl
Then add a border, some text, and a copyright if you want.
Then wa-lah, finished. Pretty simple heh?
Now your a super genius on photo-manipulation.
Teh tutorial was made by teh Cory Ingeman (Zero / Casino) and took a
long time to complete. So you better have *BLEEP*ing learned
somethin’ new.
