Turn any photo into a dot grid artwork with these Photoshop actions. You'll get great results with dots that change size. They get larger in brighter areas and smaller in darker areas. Free download available.
Preview of Final Results

Deathly Photo Manipulation Photoshop Tutorial
Step 1 - Removing Sky From Background
Download the picture of the ground and open it in Photoshop. First of all we need to remove the current sky which is boring and really uninteresting so we can replace it with more dramatic one in next steps. Cutting the sky out with Lasso Tool or Pen Tool would be really time consuming and hard. To avoid that we use Channels. Click on the Channels palette. If you don´t see it go to Window > Channels and it will appear. On the palette you can see separated red, green and blue channel.



Step 2 - Deflection of Ground
In this step you will deflect the ground so it will have better shape for putting the skeleton. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > 90° CVV and then to Filter > Distort > Shear and set the curve as you can see bellow.
Step 3 - Square Format
As you can see the final picture has square format. We will fix it in this step. Grab the Crop Tool (C) and set Width and Height on the value 1.

Step 4 - Adjusting the Ground
In this step you will increase the contrast of the ground and add details with using of texture. First of all it’s necessary to fix contrast. To do that add Adjustment Layer Levels. Using of adjustment layer is really useful because all adjustments you do this way are non destructive and you always can go back and change them. It’s almost impossible to do that if you adjust your pictures with using of Image > Adjustment > ... Thanks to adjustment layers you can also adjust only parts of the image. The button Create new fill or adjustment layer is in the bottom part of your Layers palette.
7 comments on “Create a Deathly Photo Manipulation”
A quite good tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
this tut is horrible liek get no scoped bud!
Would love to try this but can't find the photos
I enjoyed this tutorial greatly. Thank you.
très bon tuto,bien expliqué,dont j'ai fait une libre interprétation ,merci encore
Great tutorial thank you!
thanks for this tut it us really great .