Thursday, June 16, 2011

Design a spectral photo-manipulation

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Step 1
The starting point of this tutorial is the photo of an abandoned castel room. This photo is spectral even without any kind of photo-manipulation. Sometimes inspiration derives from a place, like in this case. Each place has something to say, a story behind. Let’s imagine how many things could have happened into a castle bedroom…
Open the photo in Photoshop.
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Step 2
To darken the room, duplicate the layer (ctrl+J) and set the duplicated layer blend mode to Color Burn with opacity 30%.
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Step 3
Now I don’t like this “warm” atmosphere. So go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Black & White to play a bit with colors. Move the cursors to modify the room colors.
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Step 4
To make the details of the room more evident, press shift+alt+ctrl+E to merge all the layers into a new layer. Then apply the high pass filter (Filter>Other>High pass).
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Then set the layer blending mode to Overlay. Below you can see the difference between the room before and after the effect.
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Step 5
You can notice there is a light coming from the left, there should be a window in front of the bed. I want this light stronger, as if the entire left wall disappeared. To do so, we will use a filter that allows you to manage and create light effects. As we made in step 4, merge all the layers into a new layer. Then go to Filter>Render>Lighting Effects. Here you need to set up the style to “omni blu” and then move the light to the left, in correspondence with the mirror.
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Now press shift+ctrl+U to desaturate the layer and set its blending mode to screen. The light effects looks perfect now.
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Step 6
It’s time to introduce the first character of the scene, a melancholy child. After downloaded the image, extract the boy with the pen tool and merge him into the Photoshop document. Then press ctrl+T to re-size the kid, and put him on the bed.
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Step 7
Since light comes from the left of the scene, we have to create the shadow effect of the boy on his left. Create a layer and move it below the kid’s layer. Grab a large soft (hardness 0%) black brush and paint to create the shadow. Reduce a bit the layer opacity and create other layers with other shadow effect. If you use several layers with different opacities the final result will look more realistic.
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Step 8
To darken more the boy and to make his color contrasts stronger, grab the Burn tool in Shadows mode. Reduce exposure to around 50% and paint over the boy, in particular on his left (shadow area).
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Step 9
The kid is too mush saturated. So press ctrl+U and reduce saturation to -35.
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Step 10
To create the ghostly presence, I’ve used another beautiful shot of a child, realized by Angi Nelson. Extract the child with the pen tool and paste her into the document.
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Go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal. Then re-size and rotate the child (ctrl+T) so she will look oriented in the direction of the boy.
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Add a layer mask and use a large soft black brush to gently eliminate the bottom of the child.
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Step 11
To transmit the idea of a ghostly presence, duplicate the lady’s layer by pressing ctrl+J. Then go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur and enter a distance around 80 pixels.
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Then, using the mask, eliminate the head from the duplicate layer. In this way the head of the original layer will appear without the blur effect.
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Step 12
As we made with the boy, reduce the saturation (ctrl+U).
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Step 13
Create a new layer an set its blending mode to overlay. Then grab a soft white brush and paint over the child to create a light effect. Reduce the opacity of the layer if necessary.
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Step 14
Select all the layers of the flying spectral presence and group them (ctrl+G). Then add a layer mask to the group and eliminate another part of the child. Then reduce the opacity of the group to 80%. Here is how my ghostly child looks at this stage:
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Step 15
To increase the dark effect on the right, I created a new group of layers where I’ve painted on using black soft brushes.
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Step 16
It’s time for the last adjustment layers. Let’s start with the Vibrance layer (Layer>New Adjustment layer>Vibrance) to lower down saturation to -30.
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Then use the Color Balance layer (Layers>New Adjustment Layers>Color balance) to modify the colors of the entire scene. I played with the options to turn the atmosphere from “normal” to “spectral”, with a blue cold room as result.
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And here is the result:
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Step 17
The last touch: merge all the layers into a new layer (shift+alt+ctrl+E), then switch the layer blending mode to Color Burn with opacity 30%.
Finito! For every problem or suggestion, you can use the comments;-)
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1 comments:

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