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Step 1
Create a new document in Photoshop with the following settings:
Step 2
Open the landscape image. Use the Move Tool (V) to drag it into our white canvas and use the Free Transform Tool (Cmd/Ctrl+T) to resize it as shown below:
Step 3
Open the paper texture pack. Choose the one you like and place it over the landscape, change the mode to Soft Light 100%:

Step 4
I used some adjustment layers to change the contrast and mood of the whole image. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation:



Step 5
Place the woman image in the middle of the canvas and remove the background using a layer mask:
Step 6
I used an adjustment layer with Clipping Mask to reduce the model saturation:


Step 7
I used Curves to darken the model and on its layer mask, used a soft black brush to remove the dark on the brighter part of her:
Step 8
Place the deer behind the model and remove the background part using a layer mask, also set this layer under the model one:

Step 9
Make a Color Fill layer (Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color) with Clipping Mask for the duplicated deer layer with white:

Step 10
Make the deer layers selected then press Cmd/Ctrl+G to create a group for them. Change the group mode from Pass Through to Normal 100%. Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer within this group for the deer layers:

Step 11
It's time for Illustrator. Open it up and create a new document with the settings below:






6 comments on “Composite a Modern Matte Portrait in Photoshop”
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Beautiful ;)
I don't fully understand step 7? Pls help!
The tutorial is fine for the most part but I'm astonished that the author can get away with such laziness. The point of a tutorial is to teach you _how_ not what you did.
Let me help you:
Add a Curves layer (from the adjustments panel). Add a point in the middle of the line and drag it down. This will darken it. OR.... add a Brightness/Contrast layer instead of Curves. No reason to use curves for something this basic.
Click on the layer mask thumbnail in the layers panel. Use the Brush tool (b) and then right-click on the document and pick a round brush with a hardness of 0-50%. Set your foreground color to black and then paint over the areas that you want to brighten back up.
where can i get some of your tutorials, pls am a graphic designer and i want to learn more. pls help
Pls help send. Autocad 2d tutorials.