Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Photoshop CS5
July 13th, 2010 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Photo Editing
Select now the Soft Round brush of black color and Opacity of 50%.
Create a new layer above the girl’s layer, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between new created layer and girl’s layer in the Layers panel to create a clipping mask. Use the brush along the head’s contour, painting the artifacts left from the background’s removing.
Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.
We’ve got the next result:
Select once again Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Hue/Saturation this time.
Drag the slider to the left to decrease the Saturation and the Lightness of the color range.
Select the next brush form Seu_Davi set downloaded before:
On a new layer we’ll draw several spots using black color.
Next try to combine the brushes from c130_splatter set downloaded before, to draw new spots on a new layer. The color is #282320
It’s the result we should get:
Click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow.
We’ve got the effect of pressed-in texture.
Select now the Soft Round brush with Opacity of 10% and black color.
Now we have to make the next shown arbitrary brushstrokes:
Set the Blending mode to Soft Light for this layer.
Duplicate this layer (Ctrl+J) to increase the effect:
Select once again Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections for raising the contrast.
We’ve got the next result:
Finished!
View full size here.
Download free Layered PSD file.
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Tags: abstract, background, brushes, cs5, design, dramatic, effect, free, photo-manipulation, Photoshop, poster, splatter, surreal, texture
deden
20/07/2010
the picture is man or woman???
Lucas Tiago
25/07/2010
hahaah i would ask the same deden!
but this is a nice tutorial that we have here!
Sylvia
31/07/2010
I love the tutorial. Where did you get the brushes?? Or did you make them??
Sabin
04/08/2010
Nice grunge effect. Watta co incidence, I was creating a poster for a singer and meanwhile found this tutorial. I used it so nicely that the client is so impressed…
Thanks.
Rajkumar
11/08/2010
Hi
Your work is good, i did one same like that but with some depth. Anyhow its very nice., and thanks for your tutorial
Samer Abu Zer
14/08/2010
i like ur word, Easy , fast, Nice
Keep it up
Samer
Priscilla
17/08/2010
Hiihih…
Perfeito…
Mas acho que ficou muito sombrio…
theone
25/08/2010
This is a great tutorial, thank you for taking the time to share
blaaaah
06/09/2010
i tried doing this but i cant. every time i download the brushes they dont appear in my photoshop.
my photoshop also looks totally different to this so im getting really confused as to where buttons are, etc. :/
RELLE
26/09/2010
cool ^ _ ^, its nice also that there is someone like you out there who share their knowledge…
ulises
05/10/2010
excelente creativite
rock
07/10/2010
the link to download the brushes doesn’t work. it downloads a file that isn’t usable in cs5 photoshop
dude
08/10/2010
Great! Thank you for the tutorial! And this is a man, right?
peter
13/10/2010
nice effect
chris
14/10/2010
srry dude but thats a chick
bianca
25/12/2010
i only have CS3. can i also do this tutorial on CS3 or do you have a different tutorial for that version? thanks!
kk
26/04/2011
I thought this was a great tutorial (I am a first time user of photoshop), but I got stuck because I couldn’t get the brushes I needed, how do you get the “Old_paper_brushes_by_Annette29″ because when I clicked the link, it led me to this code thing. I am really stuck so if someone could help me then please do!!!
GuvenTurkey
10/05/2011
thank you =)
Anon
04/06/2011
Can’t use the brushes. They are an .rar file. Can’t open them in CS5
Tamaki Suoh
22/08/2011
Thank You Very Much For The Tutourial I Really Liked It n Thanks For The Brushes They Work Well ,
Ps : To Everyone , The Brushes Work Well But To Install Them Here Are The Steps :
1)If You Have Photoshop On n Runing Close It ,
2)Extract The Brushes Form The Rar n Copy The Abr File In Photoshop>Presents>Brushes n Than Run Photoshop ,
Your All Done , Enjoy ^^
jack
21/10/2011
perfect
dylan
01/02/2012
This is a great tutorial. Everything worked just like it was supposed to. Only thing i had problems with was getting the brush strokes to look right. I really like that you included your psd for download in there too. thank you!