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Heart health

In this tutorial we will work with some effects on heart image.

heart health

I’m going to take a photo and to adjust it, maybe change some shapes and so on.

Here is my initial photo:

heart health

The idea of all this is to try to make the heart in the hand more expressive.

So first you got to do is to create a new layer to paint and text some effects on.

heart health

For more flexibility I want to separate the hart from other image and the way you can make this is to use quick mask for more precise way or to use a magic wand tool (on this one).

heart health

heart health

Here is the heart covered in quick mask.

heart health

Exit quick mask to copy the selected area into a new layer.

heart health

heart health

First thing I want to do to separate the heart from the rest of the image is to adjust the color of the heart.

heart health

heart health

Then I will take one of my twirl brushes and give the heart some kind of pattern.

Here we go – something like this.

heart health

Create another layer and the same brush thing. As the brush dynamics is set to pen pressure. Note that is has to be on the separate layer.

heart health

Here is this layer with other layer turned off, so you could see the effect itself.

Now I will apply some layer styles to the layer that stays on the very top of the layer box.

Here are the layer styles settings:

heart health

heart health

heart health
Result:

heart health

I’ve also create a layer underneath the very top one and did a little brush work with color similar to background – see the layer box.

heart health

I’ve lowered the fill of the top one too: see the layer box.

heart health

Now I will turn off all the paint layers and make a new one, on the top. Make several dots: I use a dot brush tip.

heart health

Apply layer stiles to the curves:

heart health

heart health

heart health

heart health

heart health

I’ve also painter with red overlay color on the top of the heart to expose that reds:

heart health

And even more reds:

heart health

heart health

The final part will be color balancing the colors on the whole image:

heart health

Tnx for reading and see you next time.

heart health

Download support file:

rc_curved_133.abr

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