Thursday, March 17, 2011

Avatar with texture and blending modes

In this one, I am just blending the texture with a portrait. Since the procedure is pretty hard to explain, I'll just make some screenshots to show.

Here, we have our two original pictures:

http://www.markdelong.com/beauty/FB42.jpg

1. We start off by turning the portrait into threshold:

2. Drag the texture layer on top of the image, add a mask and use brush to get the black parts out:

3. Get a background copy, add a black mask, and brush out the shadow:

4. Add a level adjustment clipping mask to adjust the darkness of the shadow:

5. Add a blank layer set it into color mode, and brush some color into the shadow, so it blend in with the whole picture's color, and adjust the opacity:
6. Make a comp layer.

7. Add a white fill layer, put it under the comp layer.

8. Add a mask to the comp layer and brush out some missing white parts on the arms.

FINAL:

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