Photoshop
Beautiful Fantasy Eyes
Today we shall explore the basics on how we can create Fantasy Eyes effects in Photo shop.
Now Download the image and open up in Photo shop.
Let us start off with glowing the eyes. Make selections around the 2 black eyes with the Elliptical Marquee tool. Go to Select > Modify > Feather. Set the Radius to 20px.
Press Ctrl+C (to copy) and Ctrl+V (to paste). You will get a new layer with just the selected area. Rename this new layer as “Eyes Glow”. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Screen. Then duplicate the “Eyes Glow” layer for another 3 times and you will get something similar to mine below.
Create a Curves Adjustment Layer. Go to the Green and Blue channels and set the curves to the ones below.
Create a Levels Adjustment Layer and set the values to 20, 0.84, 255.
Create a new layer and name it as “Face Color”. Set the foreground color to #45ADCA. Using the Soft Rounded Brush with size 200px, paint the face below both eyes. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light when you are done.
Open up the Brush panel and key in the settings as shown below.
Create a new layer and name it as “Glitter”. Using the Brush tool with size 3px and color #FFFFFF, brush around the bluish area to add the glittering effect. Right-click on the “Glitter” layer and go to Blending Options. Choose Outer Glow with its default settings.
Repeat the earlier step for the border around the big pair of eyes.
This step is really random. You can start designing how you want to add some patterns to the face. For mine, I downloaded the Swirl Curls from CreateSk8. Place the floral patterns around the eyes area.
Merge all the pattern together in a single area. Go to Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation. Make the Lightness to -100. This will turn the pattern in to black. Set the Blend Mode of this layer to Soft Light. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set the Radius to 2px.
Create an Exposure Adjustment Layer and key in the settings below.
Create a Levels Adjustment Layer and set the values to 15, 1, 255.
And there you have it! Thanks for reading.
Realistic View Tears on Face
In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to invite your attention to the unique technique how to make realistic view tears effect.
So, in the beginning you should find a good picture to work with. You can try to find it on stock photo web sites or also can use mine. Open up the picture. Then select the Pen Tool and try to make good form of the tear with black color.
Pay your attention that the form must be how much more uneven to be similar to a real tear. When we are done with form, then change layer mode to Screen for the current layer and apply following Blending Options:
- Drop Shadow
- Inner Shadow
- Inner Glow
- Bevel and Emboss
- Gradient Overlay
The result should be next:
Looks good, but not so realistic for now. I would like to bring some white glare to this form. Select the Pencil Tool and brush about 1 pixel, then make a few dots with white color on the new layer like on my picture below.
After that apply Blur Tool to current layer.
We got a nice realistic view result isn’t it? Don’t be afraid to experiment and you will get your own cool effects!
Papercraft Text Effect
Go to FILE > NEW… and create a new 600px 200px document with a white background. Check the image below if you are unsure about the settings.
Now let´s create the gradient for the background. In actuality, this is the gradient that we will be using for the text effect. It simply looked nice as the background too. 1 – Select the Gradient tool. 2 – Click on the gradient and the gradient editor window will open.
1 – Create the new gradient using the settings in image below.
2 – Click on the NEW button and give it a recognizable name.
3 – The new gradient will appear on the gradients library.
Select the gradient tool and then from the gradients pull down menu (1), choose the gradient we are just created (2). Select the ANGLE GRADIENT option
Check the image below to see how to apply the gradient. Place the cross on the top left corner of the image and drag it to the right.
It is very important to start (point 1) the gradient at the very top left corner of the image or even outside the image, but never inside the image, it won´t look good.
Since we are using the ANGLE GRADIENT option, it doesn´t matter where you release the mouse (point 2) as long as you keep the line horizontal.
You should get a result similar to this image:
Get ready the Text
Before starting, download the Disco Deck font and install it on your system. After installing the font, select the Text tool, set 150px as the font size, and type the letter C.
Press CTRL + ENTERto release the tool. Click again with the text tool and a new text layer will be created. Type the letter R and release the tool again by pressing CTRL + ENTER . Do the same over and over until you have all the five letters on a different text layer each:
Now we are going to arrange the letters to get the overlapped look of the final effect.
That should be fairly easy. Just select the MOVE tool, check the AUTO SELECT option, and drag each letter closer to the other and overlap them as much as you want.
Go to the LAYERS PALETTE and select the layer with the letter C in it. Then choose GRADIENT OVERLAY from the Layer Effects pop-up menu.
DON´T press OK yet. Remember to use the new gradient we have already created some steps before:
Now click on the DROP SHADOW Layer Effect and use the following settings. Keep the window open, DON´T press OK yet.
Click on the STYLES option on the top of the window and then click on the NEW STYLE button and give it a name. The newly created style will show last on the list of styles. Now you can press OK to close the LAYER STYLES window.:
To apply the new style to each letter you must select a layer (1) and then click on the new style on located on the STYLES PALETTE (2).
Repeat the same for each letter. Don´t worry about the results. They will look incorrect but we will deal with that later. You will end up with something like this:
Although the effect is complete, the simulated paper cuts don´t look good. Let´s correct that. Go to the LAYERS PALETTE, select the layer with the letter R and click on the tiny arrow at the right (1). This will display all the Layer Effects of the text layer. Double click on the GRADIENT OVERLAY effect (2). This will open the LAYER STYLES window displaying the Gradient Overlay settings.
Move the LAYER STYLE window until you can see the letter R. You should do this because you can only edit the gradient position of the letter R while the LAYER STYLE window is open.
First, type -90 in the Angle setting of the Gradient Overlay window or you can also drag the gradient angle selector until it reads -90 degrees You will see how the letter R gradient has changed its rotation and it is vertical instead of horizontal. In the next step we will move the gradient a little bit to the left to make it look better.
You should still have the LAYER STYLES window open. If not, then open it as explained a couple of steps above. Now check at the top of the screen and you will se a message that says Click and drag to reposition the gradient. This means that while the LAYER STYLES window is open, you will be able to exactly click and drag the gradient inside the letter R, and reposition it at will.
When you are done, close the LAYER STYLES window. You image should now look like this one:
To reach the desired result, you should continue tweaking the rest of the gradients until they look like the final result. Check the image below to see a diagram of the changes you should make:
Giving a Touch of Color
Choose a color. Any color you want. You will be able to change it later. In this case we used #FFA200. Click OK and the layer will be filled with that color.
After that, Go to the LAYERS PALETTE and from the BLENDING MODES pull down menu (1), select SOFT LIGHT (2).
Finally! Here´s the finished Paper craft Text Effect.
Photoshop circle Twist Effects
Let’s create a new file (File>New) of 1920×1200px/72 dpi. Using the Paint Bucket Tool (G),give the new background layer black color.
On a new layer (Create new layer) we’ll apply a standard brush to represent a spot on the central part of the picture. The brush’s color is #007EC7
Select the next option for the layer containing the spot:Filter>Distort>ZigZag
The layer’s parameters:Fill 54%
Next we’ll choose the Rectangle Tool (U) to represent three white lines which must be turned over with Free Transform option.
Those three layers with the white lines must be combined in a group (press Ctrl button to mark out the lines’ layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while moving the marked layers on (Create a new group selection).
Mark out the group now and then press CTRL+E. On the rasterized layer we’ll apply the next option: Filter>Distort>Wave
On the same layer we need to apply also Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur
Set the next parameters for the layer by clicking on the same layer on the layers’ panel: Blending mode-Overlay : Fill 44%
Blending Options>Drop Shadow
Blending Options>Outer Glow
Make a copy of the recently made layer and chooseFree Transform option to turn over the copy the same way demonstrated on the picture.
Now we need to represent a new layer (Create new layer), applying here a standard brush to paint the new layer in two colors (on the top part we’ll choose the green color,on the bottom – the blue one) (Opacity 10%).
Very Cool Folded TeXt Effect
So the first thing we are going to do is to open a new file in Photoshop, this one is 1200 x 400 pixels, write down contempotech using big fonts, you can use any font of your choice.
Now that we have the type we are going to start working on folding the letters one by one, so starting with the C we are going to select a box around the letter “C” using the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), once we have it selected, hold Ctrl + C to copy the letter and then press Ctrl + V to paste it, name the layer you pasted “C”(change the color that you want on the contempotech text before you copy and paste it .
We already have the letter “C” on a new layer now we are going to select the part that we want to fold it, I like to use the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) and select part of the letter that I want to fold it.
Now that we have a selection we are going to copy the selection by hitting Ctrl + C and then delete the selection on the layer “C”, paste it by hitting Ctrl + V, when you paste it note that it will be on a new layer so name that “C-fold” as you can see here.
First lets change the color of it, go to Image > Adjustment > Hue Saturation (Ctrl+U) bring the Saturation to -100 and Lightness to +60 to give a gray color so it looks like the back of the letter is folding and go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical (note that because we are folding from up to down, if it was side do side we would have to flip it horizontal) and then we have to Edit > Transform > Rotate and make sure we rotate the folded area exactly on the angle we want, make sure you place it right where it’s folding as you can see on the image.
Go back on the “C-fold” layer and go to Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow and reduce the Opacity from 75% to 25% and try to adjust the angle to be the same as the folding area, I set mine to 135, also reduce the Distance to 2px, and the rest can remain the same.
Our last step on the letter A will be to go back on the “C” layer, hold Ctrl and click on it to select the A we have, create a new layer (name it C-shade) and with the Gradient Tool – Linear Gradient with the color black apply it from the bottom up, change the layer mode to Overlay.
Our first letter is done, now we are going to repeat pretty much the same steps on each letter to get to the end with a good result. To get more organized put all the “C” layers into a folder called “O” and start working the same process on the letter O and so on.
At the end delete the text layer “CONTEMPOTECH” and you done!
Dotted Line
1.Create a new file in photoshop and choose the “Brush Tool”.From the upper right corner, choose the “Brush Palette”.The following screen appears.
2. Enable the “dual brush” option.
3. Select the following values for the dual brush.
4.This is the curved dotted line.
5.To draw the straight dotted line, insert a dot on the left side and pressing the shift key,click on the right side of the screen.A straight dotted line is formed.
Twirl Effect
1.Create a new layer and use the brush tool.
Create a new file in Photoshop.Choose foreground colour “#7e4af4″ and “#ef66f1″
and with the help of brush tool,draw the following diagram.
Choose the following values for brush tool:
Master Pixels:60,Mode:Normal,Opacity:100%,Flow:100%
2.Applying the twirl effect.
Choose Filter – > Distort -> Twirl .Choose angle as 999.We obtain the following twirl effect.
Hedcut Drawing
A slight deviation from the regular photoshop tutorial…info on Headcut Drawing / Stipple Effect,which I found to be quite interesting.
This is a style of drawing ,mostly focussed on people,invented and used till today by the Wall Street Journal.The drawings are done with a standard size of 3″ by 5.167″ and the image is portrayed by means of a stipple method which consists of several dots to create the image.These are used to emulate the style of newspapers as well as those of engravings in certificates and currencies.
Its presumed that the spelling of “hed” might be based on newspapers’ use of the term “hed” for “headline”.A small history behind the invention of HedCut Drawing.It was first created by Kevin Sprouls,the freelance artist who first approached The Wall Street Journal with his ink dot drawings in 1979.Hedcut Drawing enriches the newspapers classical look and feel.
Need to checkout how to perform hedcut through photoshop.Here is a picture of Bill Gates done through Hed Cut Drawing.
Creating a Snow Text Effect
1. Background Layer:
Create a new file in Photoshop with image size as 400 x 400.Choose foreground color as ’66ccff’. Using Paint Bucket tool,paint the background.
2.Text Tool:
Choose the text tool with font as Stencil Std,Bold,60 point,Sharp and color as ’000099′.Type the following text.A new text layer Snow will be created.
3.Rasterize The Text:
Rasterize the text by right clicking the layer ‘Snow’.
4.Add new layer:
Add new layer by clicking on ‘Shift + Ctrl + N’.A new layer ‘layer1′ will be created.
5.Use Lasso tool to create selection:
By choosing the Lasso Tool,select the areas where the snow effect has to be added.
Click on Shift + F5 and choose white color to fill the selection with white color.
6.Add Blur:
Choose the option Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur.Give the value as 2.5. This is the final effect.
Creating background with brushes
1. Create the background:
Create a new file in Photoshop with image size as 250 x 350.
Choose foreground color #ffcccc. Select the brush tool .
Choose the brush pattern Azalea with size as 40.Draw on the background to get the following output.
2.Add additional effects:
Choose the brush pattern Butterfly or any other pattern as you prefer with size as 29.Draw on the background to get the following output.
3.Create the rectangle:
Choose the Rounded Rectangle tool and by applying the following color #cc66cc,draw the rectangle.Choose the Transform tool by clicking on “Ctrl + T” and transform the rectangle as follows.
4.Text Tool:
Choose the Text tool and by applying the following color #333333,type the text “Best Wishes”.Choose the Transform tool by clicking on “Ctrl + T” and transform the Text as follows.
