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Preview of Final Results
The Pain Photoshop Tutorial
Tutorial Resources
- Grunge texture 1 - darkrose42-stock
- Grunge texture 2 - darkrose42-stock
- Model - Adobe Stock
- Dried blood splatter brushes - Photoshop Tutorials
- Glossy blood splatter brushes - Photoshop Tutorials
- Cobweb brushes - Obsidian Dawn
- Cobweb texture - Fantasystock
- Wire - Morguefile
- Bandage - Titelgestalten
Step 1
Create a new document with the size of 1333x1000px and fill it with white (or any sizes and any colors you like).
Step 2
Open grunge texture 2 stock. Drag it into our canvas and do the same technique in step 1 ( resize, transform, flip it). You may notice that I only use the center part of this texture for this tutorial:
Step 3
There is a part on background that I want to fix. It's a carved circle on the right edge. Create a new layer ( hit Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N to do it) and press S to active Clone Tool. I use this tool with settings below :
Step 4
Now we're going to add splatter effect for background. Create a new layer and set foreground color to black. Choose dried blood splatter you've downloaded and take one for your taste and draw on background. You can see my choice of brush:
Step 5
Make a new layer and I use the first brush of brush pack to continue painting on the left side of background and I set the mode of it to Soft light 50%. Then I duplicate it and move it to the right.
Step 6
Create a new layer and set foreground to white. Use cobweb brush, number 1064 ( or your choice) to paint on background, then transform ( hit Cmd/Ctrl+T) to do it, place it at the top right of picture:
Step 7
Open model stock. Use any tools you're familiar with to make a selection around model, then copy it into a new layer. Move extracted model into our document, place her at the center:
15 comments on “"The Pain" - Create this Eerie Abstract Photo Manipulation”
I think the instruction is pretty good however when I enter some of the values for the blood colors they don't look like yours ....not sure if that is because I have an older version or what.
Which step are you not getting the right color for?
You can turn this artwork into a symbolism of the Hong Kong police force by putting the blood in one eye only.
Where is the pain? She looks pretty comfortable! lol
cool
Wonderful tutorial..Thanks for sharing.
your work is amazing .....well done xx
it was great.can you please send this instruction to my email.
cool!
yes girl.
wow what a great tut, thank you very much <3
Great tutorial, thank you very much :) Easy to follow and an awesome result! Cheers
Can't download the model stock, please reupload it! Thanks for the tut!
i love it^^
excellent! better remove the earring and ring,redo the nails pure black