How to create a glamour style composition using patterns and masks

May 24th, 2010 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Photo Editing

In today’s tutorial you will learn how to give a photo a complete glamour style using patterns and masks in Adobe Photoshop. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!

Final Image Preview

Start working by finding a stock photo with a model represented on it, I used this photo from deviantart. I would like to thank the author of this photo:

Next we’ll represent a pattern. In this case we need a new file (File>New) with the size 69px by 69px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 100 pixels/inch and apply here the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent three ellipses. The pattern doesn’t have a background.

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Stroke.

We’ve got the next result:

Using the same tool, it’s possible to represent the next ellipse:

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and go to Layer Style>Stroke

We’ve got the next effect:

Continue working by applying the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent the next ellipse:

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Stroke.

We’ve got the next pattern:

Put together the ellipses layers into one single layer. In this case press CTRL button, select the layers in Layer panel and finally press CTRL+E to Merge Down.
Choose Edit > Define Pattern. Enter a name for the pattern in the Pattern Name dialog box.

Get back to the girl’s document and create a new layer. Choose Edit > Fill to fill the new layer. In the Fill dialog box, for Use, choose Pattern, select recent created pattern from the pop-up panel, and click OK.

Set Fill to 30% for this layer in Layers panel. Using the Eraser Tool (E), try to erase those zones on the face demonstrated on the next picture:

Set the Blending mode to Overlay for this layer.

Find a stock photo with an electric guitar:

Remove the background using your favorite tools like Pen Tool (P), Magic Wand Tool (W), Magnetic Lasso (L) or even a simple Filter>Extract and insert it on a new layer in our main document. The appropriate corrections on its placement and sizes may be done with the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command.

Click on the same layer on the bottom part of the Layers panel on Add layer mask icon and choose a Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity 50%)

Use this brush to paint in the mask to hide the guitar the same way indicated below:

Make a copy of the layer containing the electric guitar and select then the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to place the copy as it is shown on the next image:

Next we need to add the mask on the copy’s layer too, the same way we did with the very first guitar. Choose in this case a Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity 50%) to hide the guitar the same way as below:

Set the Blending mode to Screen for both layers with guitar.

Create a new layer and select here a Soft Round brush of white color.

Use this brush to represent many illuminated spots of different diameter:

Click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Outer Glow.

We’ve got the next result:

Choose again the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent a small ellipse:

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