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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop


Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop. The Aim of this tutorial is to cover some interesting techniques when it comes to applying textures to human skin, as well as creating simple abstract lines via the Warp Tool.
This is a beginner-intermediate level Photoshop tutorial.
Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version.
Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)
metal portrait flatten 500x637 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Note: If you have trouble doing Step 3, check out this video tutorial below:

OK Let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Step 1

Create a new document sized 800px * 1020px with black background, load the model image into Photoshop and cut of the head and shoulder portion of the model, paste it onto our document. Resize and position this layer to the centre, and use a soft eraser to fade the edges as shown below:
1 paste1 500x625 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Use a small hard eraser to tidy up the hair:
1 hair 500x476 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Duplicate this layer once and apply the following Surface Blur settings to it:
1 sur Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Duplicate this surface blurred layer once, then use the watercolour brush we downloaded earlier as eraser, remove parts of the face for some abstract break-apart effect:
1 eraser 485x700 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Hide the 2 previous layers and keep only the third layer visible.

Step 2

Add the following 2 adjustment layers as clipping mask on top of the third duplicated layer:
Black and White
2 bw2 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Levels
2 lv2 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Layer mask on the Levels adjustment layer:
2 lv mask 500x550 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
and you will have the following effect so far:
2 effect2 500x633 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop

Step 3

We will now apply the rusted metal texture onto the face. Open up the texture image in Photoshop, load the selection of the model layer and drag it over onto the texture image:
3 sel 500x515 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Copy and paste the selection over onto the model, place the layer above the previous adjustment layers:
3 copy 500x577 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
We will want to remove some parts of the metal texture to reveal the eyes and nose, etc with a layer mask attached:
3 texture mask 500x625 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Change the blending mode of this metal texture layer to “Hard Light”, you will have the following effect:
3 hard light 500x431 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Add the following adjustment layer as clipping mask to this metal texture layer:
Black and White
3 bw1 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
and you will have the following effect so far:
3 effect1 500x412 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop

Step 4

We can add fading smoke/cloud around the face to add some depth to the image:
4 cloud 500x623 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Optionally you can add some small particles around the face to create some break apart effect:
4 particle 500x320 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
We will make some abstract curvy lines – paint a small orange dot with soft brush:
4 dot1 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Use the Warp Tool to manipulate this dot as shown below:
4 warp1 500x396 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Duplicate this layer a few times, rotate and resize each duplicated layer and scatter them around to form the falling effect:
4 duplicate Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Attach one line to the bottom of the right eye as well:
4 eye 500x243 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop

Step 5

We’re almost done! For some final retouches, add the following 2 adjustment layers on top:
Curves
5 curves Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Colour Balance
Midtones
4 mid col Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
Highlights
5 col hig Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
and you will have the following final effect: (click to enlarge)
metal portrait flatten 500x637 Design a Rusted Metal Face Manipulation with Abstract Falling Lines in Photoshop
That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!

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