"Beats" Photomanipulation tutorial

In this tutorial ill explain how i made the taq you see below. Its a long tutorial and shows you how to use and manipulate stock photos to make a nice taq.

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Tutorial writen by Johan Schats 2012

 

Smile@life PhotoManipulation Tutorial

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In this tutorial im gona explain how i made my smile@life taq/sig.

First you need to have a idea of what you want to make, i knew what i had in mind when i started so i wend on google to find the matching stock wich would fit my idea. After doing that i made a sketch/collage in a new document wich is the same size as the taq/sig i am gona make. I started with the bottom layer and worked my way op until i had a pretty good idea of what i want. Keep in mind it a collage of what you wand it doesnt have to be very precise. I kept this document open during the taq/sig to keep as reverense. This is the idea i had.

This is how it came out.

You can see it follows the collage i made. 

When i started the actual sig/taq i started of with a new canvas, size 450x250, with a bright pink background. because it is easyer to see the diffence between stock and empty background.

Ive donne the background and the wall before i did the dog. The first stock i put in the document is the wall i wand the dog to hang over. i placed it to my likings and removed everything i did not want in the final peace. To erase the parts you kan use what you like best, i prefer the eraser.

The wall inst in the background, so the next layer has to be put behind the layer with the wall, now im gona put in the cactus, again ive scaled it and removed parts i didnt want. I draged the layer below the wall layer in my layer menu.

Now the base is almost done only the sky left, the sky most be behind the cactus, zo i placed it and moved it below the cactus layer.

To make it easyer ones you get many layer you can name your layer in the layer pallet, ive named mine “wall”, “cactus” and “sky”. And ive put them in a folder.

Now im gona add the dog, this is gona be above all other stock layers, and im gona place it so that the paws go over the wall, then i removed al parts i didnt need. and named the layer “dog”.

Next im gona make a new layer underneath the dog layer, and name this “shadow dog” on this layer im gona do some brushing to ad some black shadows under the dogs paws on the wall. I used a soft round brush. You might need to lower the layer opacity to make it look good.

Looks pretty nice alreay, but to make it more fun to watch where gona add some more stuff, Now im gona open a stock of a baby with some nice eyes, and gona cut out the eyes from that and past them on a layer above the dog, ive set that layer to luminosity, so that the colors will match nicely. To remove the sharp edges i used a soft brush eraser on lower opacity. I did one eye at the time, depending on your work you might need to scale and rotate the eye to get them placed right. I named my layer “left eye and right eye”

Now im gona do the same with the mouth, i opend a nice mouth stock placed it in my taq/sig above the dog and scaled it to fit the dog nicely, again i erased the sharp edges to blend in nicely and put the layer on luminosity. And named the layer “Smile”

Now i kept the layer selected with the smile on it, and used the polygonal lasso tool to select the teeth between the lips, then i hit ctrl+j to copy the teeth ive just selected to a new layer, but because i used ctrl+j while is is selected it stayes in the same place. Then i put the layer on Normal. And ive named it “Theet”

You can also do the same for the lips, as the teeth to give the dog red lips. i preferd it whit dog hair toned lips, with red lips it looks like this

Keep in mind that when your placing the eyes and smile that you have some skin around the eyes and mouth, this gives more room to blend it in.

Now i am gona add some detail to the peace, ive opend up my favorite flower stocks, 2 different ones, one yellow flower one pink. Ive copyed them to the sig/taq and scaled them as needed. Then ive put 3 flower on the cactus and 2 on the wall. Keep in mind that you are still working above all other layers. Ive named the flower layer “yellow flower and pink flower”

Ive also added a shadow to the flowers to make them fit in nicely, ive did this in the layer blending options menu, this depends on wat you like and what you think looks good. this how it looks so far.

Now for the final detail i am gona ad a ladybug to the dog, ive opend it up and copyed it to my peace, then scaled and removed all unwanted parts. i wand it to look like its walking on the dog paw/shoulder. So i added the same shadow as on the flowers,

Keep in mind that you have the same settings for the shadow on all the layers you use it on . Ive named the layer “ladybug”

Now lets ad a curves layer , this wil make it al fit a little beter togheter.

Now make a new layer, and go to image/apply image. This give you a layer with al layer merged on it. Now gaussian blur this layer (filter/blur/gaussian blur) on a radius of 1.

Then take out the eraser and remove everything exept some blur on the edges, this will just add a little focus.

last thing i did was ad some simple text in a dark tone, in font arial. and its finnist .

This tutorial is ment to give you a idea and some tips on how to combine stock into one complete new image.

Below you can find all the stocks ive used to make this sig/taq

This tutorial is writen by Johan Schats 2012

Photomanipulation taq tutorial "buried"

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In this tutorial im gona show you how to make the taq you see below.

For this taq i used stock i pulled from the web by searching google.
the stocks i used:

 

 

 I started by making a new document, duh. Then i droped the stock i wand for the base background in there and scaled it to my likings.

 

Now im gona drop in the second stock, i removed al unwanted parts from it.

I wand house to look destroyed and the scul comming trough. so what i did i plased house above the scull and scaled it to match the scull. then i used the eraser to remove parts where i want the scul to show. I used a texture on the eraser wich you can apply in the brush menu when you have the eraser selected. i used a texture i made from the stock i used as the base background. with these settings:

 

After droping in the stock and ersing some parts this is what i got.

Now a duplicated the base layer, draged it above the stck of house, and used the same erasing settings as before. to make it look like the stock is buried in the background.

i removed the parts where i wanted house/skull to show.Next i added a curves layer, just to make it come a little more to life.the curves layer is almost noting, i just altered it a tiny bit.

Next i brushed a little in black on a new layer to ad a little bit of shadow next to the face, and set the layer to a low opacity.

the text im not very good in, so kept it simple, just made a scuare shape, filled it whit a color (offcourse on a new layer) and placed the text above it.

Now to add some flowers, i removed ar backrounds from the stock and just kept the flowers. droped them in and placed them in the taq where i wanted them. Ive added shadows to the flowers in the layer blending options menu.

And this is how it looks after the shadows and flowers.

last ive placed in the spider, and did the same as i did with the flowers.

 

This tutorial is writen by Johan Schats 2012

Vintage photo manipulation tutorial

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In this tutorial im gona show you how to make a nice looking vintage foto, in just a couple of easy steps.  For the vintage look i used a custom shape for the border wich can be found on my deviantart page http://xaliasx.deviantart.com they are called Texture brush pack (big brushes) [download here]. The Border custom stape can also be found on my deviantart page its called
vintage border customshape.[download here]

 

 

Step 1
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Start by opening your photo to turn in to a vintage one.

Step 2
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Now make a new curves layer and adjust it, make the darker colors darker the bright ones brighter.

 

 

Step 3
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Make a new layer fill it with a yellow tone, i used :#faec04. set that layer to multiply on 80% opacity.
Now make a new layer and fill it with a dark blue, i used : #0409d4 set that layer to screen also on 80% opacity.
You might need to play around with the opacity depending on what you like and your photo but always keep them the
same, if one is on 50% put the other on 50%. I prefer both on 80%.

 

Step 4
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Now to make some vintage corners, make a new layer, take out a big default softbrush and brush the corners. Then go
to filter/blur/gaussian blur and use a radius around 70. after that you can adjust the layer opacity to your likings and use a eraser with a softbrush to remove parts you dont like so that it isnt getting to dark. Mine is set to 80% opacity.

 

Step 5
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Now nake a new layer and go to image/apply image and gaussian blur it on a distance from 0.5 to 1 no more. Then you have a blured layer, take out the eraser with a soft round brush and erase the center part, not to close to the edge, just to maintain focus on the center of the picture.

 

Step 6
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Now make a new layer, take out a grunge brush ore the texture brush you can download from my deviantart. and brush on a new layer in white. adjust the layer to a blending style that you think looks good, and lower the opacity, mine is on 65%. set to overlay.

 

Step 7
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Now you can make a square border but im gona make a rounded shape, so make a new layer and take out the customshape tool. If you downloaded the border from my deviantart load it into photoshop, and use it to draw a border in a white tone, not completly white. i used #fffef2

 

Step 8
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Make new layer, above the border and right click the layer, the select create clipping mask. Now take out the grunge/texture brush and brush a little on the layer in a light gey tone, so that the border starts looking dirty, you might wanna change the opacity i lowerd mine to about 65%.

and then your photo is done, below is the outcome.

 

Turtorial writen by Johan Schats 2012