In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to integrate a model in dark environment and apply abstract lights effects over the scene. Basically we’re going to create some nice sparkly effects and connect them with a certain model, mixing up everything with a nice suitable background.
Preview of Final Results
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Step 1
Open image of the model. Double-click with left mouse button on it to unlock the Background layer. Duplicate it using Ctrl+J, then hit Ctrl+L (Levels) over the duplicated layer. Set it as shown in the second image below. You can go even little bit further with the darkening.
Step 2
Now select Brush Tool (B), hit D on keyboard to bring colors to default and set your foreground brush color to black. Make sure all your brush options are set to 100% and then paint in the same layer, over the light spots to fill them up with black.
Step 3
Now go to Select > Color Range and use the same settings as shown below. Press OK and then go to Layers Palette and turn off the visibility of the duplicated layer. Your screen should now look exactly like the second image below.
Step 4
Select “model” layer and click on the Layer Mask button. Now you can just delete the “model copy” layer, as we won’t be using it anymore. We needed it only for extraction.
So this was an alternative way for some cutting out, usually people use Channels to do this. But isn’t this fun to learn something different?
Step 5
Let’s don’t get so excited, as this is only the first stage of the extraction, now we’re going to need to blend this model with a desired background. So create a new layer below the “model”, grab Paint Bucket (G) and fill it with black color. As you see there are still some white edges. The cut out never works perfectly, so you either have to blend it properly or just do some more accurate extraction.
Step 6
Now let’s go to Layers Palette, right-click on the “model” layer mask and select Apply Layer Mask. Next hold Ctrl and left-click on the “model” layer thumbnail, this should bring up the selection.
12 responses to “Create this Amazing Fashion Photo Manipulation with Abstract Smoke and Light Effects”
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Can’t download the “PSD Light Effects.zip | 22.16 MB (Download from Website)” as it just says “404 Page not found”
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why is no complete?
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Bonjour W.P.
C’est vraiment très joli et je vous félicite !
J’essaye de traduire et je le fais, encore merci et si je me trompe, je peux regarder votre .psd, c’est gentil à vous ! -
A very smart approach to explain the things,like your step by step tutorial.
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Step 7
Select the “model” layer and hit Ctrl+Alt+R (Refine Edge).
Output will create another layer with the settings below applied, so you can just basically delete or just turn off the previous layer. It’s up to you.
Step 9
Grab Brush Tool (B), set it all the way to 100%, but decrease the Spacing to 1% and check the Smoothing option. Again use black color for painting and go to Layer Mask of the “model” layer. Model layer???????????????????????????
In Step 7 you say delete previous layer (layer “model”) because we have another layer (“model copy”).
Step 10
You should achieve similar results to mine if you painted accurately. Now pay attention to the red line surrounding the model. It’s indicating how we’re going to shade her to make her body and clothes blend with the background better. So go to Layers Palette, create new layer above “model” and hit Ctrl+Alt+G, this will create a Clipping Mask (and it should look like you see in the preview below). Above “model” layer? Again???????????
Dude, WTF?????????
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Great tutorial, i agree with everything that Rickard wrote.
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This really is a awesome tutorial, im gonna follow it step by step this afternoon. Looking forward to see similair results
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Wojciech Pijecki (your name, yes?)
Thank you so much, a truly great work, and in my opinion just enough info to be able to do it yourself if you wanted to. I especially liked the chiffon-“trick” and the attention to detail in the little “planets” at the end.
Now for agnes b and photogabe above:
I really can’t believe how inpolite you are being. From what I can see he only skips the most basic stuff. If you look at the first image (end result) you should be able to see that this tutorial will require some beforehand knowledge. To be fair, you are both somewhat constructive in your critisism, but there is really no excuse for that tone of voice.
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stupid tutorial didnt show us how to do the smoke.
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yes… it did… there is a next page button which i think you didn’t see lol
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totally awesome
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