Hello friends, today I will show you how to change this portrait into something different and with many fantasy tones that I love, this stock photograph I got at https://unsplash.com/ and it is part of a technique that I saw some time ago in a tutorial I never thought it would look like this, in fact, at the beginning I thought it would look horrible, but I have learned to trust the process especially for this piece.
I have been practicing photo manipulation for a few months now and although I am not perfect believe me I have seen very famous people doing worse things and they even sell them easily just for being “famous” but that does not stop me from learning and improving a little every day.
Proceso/Process
Honestly, I'm terrible at explaining, I don't even know how to handle the terms of some things or tools that I use well, I just experiment and according to my taste I am progressing, I saw this technique in a tutorial, however, I ended up doing a little everything in my own way a little less complicated to the video, perhaps there was a moment that made me despair and when I saw that the result was looking strange, I almost threw in the towel, in short ... Things that happen, existential crises.
Fotografia usada / Used photography.
I started by cutting out the silhouette of this girl, obviously it was not perfect, apply a dark background to be able to work better, I chose three colors of a fairly strong tonality to be able to make her skin stand out with the mixture of these three tones, I started painting with blue, then violet and finally pink, I tried several times to apply blue in the darkest parts, violet in medium tones and pink in lights, this was difficult I had to do it about 4 times until I felt that it was good.
As I progressed, I intensified the colors that I applied to the skin, I darkened the image a little and then using different blending mode settings on the brush and on the layers I added more light and shadows.
Basically these color adjustments were 80% of the process, I continued until I got a good result ... add background using another stock image of a galaxy, also add light on her eyes, nails and various parts of her body, finish by adding a background moon and a small crescent on her forehead and after my image was complete, I added some exposure, highlights, shadows and saturation adjustments.
From my point of view it looks magical and bright, I even created my own brush that gave me a texture of small points of light that make a lot of difference, it is fantastic to be able to create works with a photograph, this manipulation was the first of 3 that I did a few weeks ago, one after another and this was my favorite since I love portraits, the others are landscapes with other elements that I hardly ever work but I will show you those in a future post.
Tools:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- XP-PEN deco 01 v2
Herramientas:
- Photoshop CC 2019
- huion h610 pro v2
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