Let’s give some pop to the girl and add some lighting. It looks a bit washed out, so something you should always do is add a couple more adjustment layers and for this piece we’ll add one for brightness/contrast, set to +8 for brightness and +28 for contrast, and one for levels which we’ll set to 15, 1.00 and 246 for the 3 input boxes. Now choose the preset blue, red to yellow gradient, hit ok and set this layers opacity to 40%. In the menu go to Layer>New adjustment layer>Gradient map. What we’re going to do is something ever so simple but very effective in creating the mood of the piece. Now I sometimes like to get colour palette and tone sorted early, and in the case of this piece let’s do just that. Now drag from the bottom right to top left, but drag over the canvas edges so that it sort of goes from dark grey to light grey. So select the gradient tool and keep it black to white. With a blank background, let’s create some instant depth to this piece by adding a gradient. This will give us a clean edge and knock out the background, ready for us to add our own. Hit A to select the path selection tool and right click on the path>create vector mask. Create a new document at A3 size with 300dpi, or if you prefer slightly smaller, then go for A4 300dpi.ĭrag your image into the new document and grab the pen tool, carefully start adding point by point until you’ve drawn around the entire body of the girl. Pick an image that you feel has a lot of energy already, even before you’ve added everything else. Start by choosing an image similar to this one of someone jumping in the air ( original image). OK, enough of an introduction, and on with the tutorial… His work has been featured in Computer Arts and Advanced Photoshop magazines. destill) and this is his first tutorial for a blog.
The tutorial was created and written by renowned artist Mike Harrison (a.k.a. The effects can be extended and used on a multitude of photos to create a feeling of motion and vibrancy to a static image.
#USING PHOTOSHOP HOW TO#
In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to add more energy and dynamism to a photo.
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