Today, we will use Photoshop to turn a picture
into an artistic black and white portrait using
Photohsop. We will also see the effect of setting the
layer mode to color dodge.
Open your photo in Photoshop, try to choose a
suitable image with a clear face look.
Press Alt and double click the Background layer to
convert it to a normal layer.
Click Image > Adjustments > Desaturate
(Shift+Ctrl+U) to turn your image into black and white.
Select the "Layer 0" layer in the Layers window and
press (Ctrl+J) to duplicate it.
Select the new layer and change it to "Color Dodge"
in the layers window.
Right click the Layers window and choose "Flatten
Image" to merge the two layers.
Press Alt and double click the Background layer to
convert it to a normal layer.
Press (Ctrl+A) to select all image, click Edit >
Transform > Rotate to rotate your image if
necessary.
Make a new layer, move the new layer to be the
backmost layer and rename this layer to BG.
Set white as foreground color, select the "Paint
Bucket Tool" (G), and fill the entire BG layer with
white.
Select "layer 0", the "Eraser Tool" (E) and delete
all the parts of the image except for the eyes, eyes
shading, parts of the nose and the mouth. You can press
"[" or "]" on your keyboard to make the "Eraser Tool"
bigger or smaller as needed.
Select the Crop Tool (C) and crop around your
image.
Right click the Layers window and click "Flatten
Image".
Choose the "Magic Wand Tool" (W) and select the
white area, then click Select > Inverse
(Shift+Ctrl+I) to inverse selection.
Press (Ctrl+C) then (Ctrl+V) to paste the selected
areas into a new layer.
Select the new layer, at the bottom of the layers
window, click "Add layer style" , choose "Drop Shadow"
and modify the shadow settings as the following image.
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Thu, 08 November 2007 12:15pm (GMT)
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Wow!it's wonderful i really enjoyed it
Great! Thanks!
Great!! Thanks to people like you,it'll go long way in educating the world.
nice tutorial :)
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