Old Style Photo Effect

Now I’m going to show you how to create old style photo effect with interesting accent.

At first you need to find some appropriate picture for our tutorial. Actualy you can find picters in Google searh or feel free to use mine. Open our original picture and apply Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation with next presets to change hue and saturation:

See the difference now:

Duplicate this layer with Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:

After that mess with the layer mode & opacity/fill. I tried Multiply with a fill of 60%.

Now use Image > Adjustments > Lеvels with next presets to make the color correction:

See the result below:

Ok, now I would like to add the dark areas along the picture edges to create focus for the future accent. To do this create a new layer and fill it with black color. Then select the Eraser Tool (Opacity: 50%) and a soft round brush about 300 px and clear the inner area as shown on my picture:

Set layer opacity to 70% up:

Ok, we are done with background. Time to add an accent to our picture. I got it from another picture. You can find it using Google search or feel free to use this one. Open this file, then select the Polygonal Lasso Tool and select the boy’s body as on picture below:

Use Ctrl+C to copy selected part of image from this photo and paste copied fragment to the main document. Then use Ctrl+T to to miniaturize this fragment a little bit and move it down as shown on my picture:

Tweak contrast of the fragment using Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast with with similar settings to these:

See the difference:

Ok, now time to add some shadow under the boy. Go to the layer under the boy and create a new layer. Then select the Brush Tool and a soft round brush about 15 px and draw black spot as below:

Time to add bigger shadow from boy’s body. Create a new one layer, then select the Brush Tool with the same parameters and create bigger spot on the floor as on my picture:

I think it will be better to make this shadow a little bit sparse in the end. For this effect select the Eraser Tool (Opacity: 30%) and a soft round brush about 45 px and make a couple of clear strokes. Now shadow looks better, isn’t it?

To finish off the tutorial I think we need to do a little burn work with the boy’s picture. Using the
Now, using the Dodge Tool with moderate settings (Brush: 250 px, Range: Shadows, Exposure: 25%) do a little bit of dodge-work on this layer.

Now duplicate this layer with Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:

After that change layer mode to Soft Light and set opacity up to 65%.

We are done for now. Looks good as for me! Use it, make it and enjoy your own nice photo effects!

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Image Composing: Keep Your City

This is an easy and quick lesson about how to create an interesting composition for social topic using few clip art pictures.

First of all, we need to find some appropriate pictures of hand, sky and city. For this purposes we may use Google Images or search in stock photo sites. So let’s start! Create a new document with size of 300×500 px and bring there our first picture of the sky in similar way as you can see at the picture bellow. You may use your own picture or just use mine.

Then we add the right clip art of the hand. Also you may use your own clip art or feel free to use mine. Locate it as on my picture below:

Now it is necessary to make color correction for the hand to get harmonious view with the background color. Use Image > Adjustments >Levels (Crrl+L) with the following options:

You may see the difference after correction:

Now we need to add proper picture which we will put in the hand. Open chosen clipart and bring it to your canvas. You may use my clip art as well. Then use the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make round selection with the pushed Shift to get the proper round selection.

Then press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut the selected part of image to new layer and delete the previous layer, it’s useless now. Get back to layer with the cutted part of image and make it smaller about 35%.

Ok, then select contents using Select > Load Selection and apply Filter > Distort > Spherize with similar settings to these:

Your result should look as mine:

Deselect this part image with Ctrl+D. Then use the Sharpen Tool and focus the sharpness:

After that use the following Blending Options for this layer:
• Drop Shadow
• Inner Shadow
• Inner Glow

We should get the following picture as the result:

Then use the Burn Tool (Brush: 80 px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 30%) and add some darkness the bottom part of a circle. You may see this effect on the picture bellow:

After that use the Elliptical Marquee Tool, make selection as you can see on my picture bellow, create a new layer and fill it with the white to transparent gradient.

Now, create a new selection and press Delete to clean selected part or image.

Deselect chosen area with Ctrl+D and your result should look as mine:

At this point our lesson is over! We have a very nice composing, don’t we? Also you may create another composing for different topics. Have fun!

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Car Moving Effect

This little and easy lesson about how to create car moving effect by using Photoshop’s filters.

First of all, we need find or get somewhere the photo of the car and the road where the car will move. Let’s do it by using Google Images or find the similar clip art on photo stocks.
Get the right picture of the road where car will move and open it. You also may use my picture.

Go to the next step – we need to bring car to this background. Open picture with a car and separate it from white background using the Polygonal Lasso Tool.

Now, press Ctrl+C to copy selected part of image and paste it into the picture with highway with Ctrl+V.

After that we need to decrease image of a car and move it underneath, in order to make impression of moving. Press Ctrl+T and hold Shift proportionally decrease picture to size which you may see on the picture bellow:

Looks great, isn’t it? Then I suppose to change the car’s colour to implement her to the whole gamma of picture. We may do this by using the Hue/Saturation. Use Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation with similar settings to these:

Get the following result now:

Looks great on this stage but not finished yet. Move to the main stage – imitation of moving by using Photoshop’s filters. Duplicate layer with car image using Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur to the original lower layer:

We should get something like this:

After that pass to background. We need to show imitation of quick car moving on it. Use again Filter > Blur > Radial Blur, just change some options:

We get the following picture as the result:

Add some contrast and increase moving feeling. To do this duplicate background using Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Blur >Gaussian Blur with the following options for duplicated layer:

You can see the result below:

After that set up layer opacity to 50% and change layer mode to Soft Light.

If you need to create moving effect on the picture, where car is present, just select the car using the Polygonal Lasso Tool, then press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected are to the new layer, then make the same actions which was described above. That’s all! My lesson in over. Good luck!

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