Tutorial (Emma Frost)

This is the first tutorial I've ever made. I have learned so much from this community that I thought it's time to give something back.

We're going from this to this
Using Photoshop CS (probably very easy to translate to other programs)


crop and resize your base.
Then use a soft round brush to paint over the top of the image (#3A5360) to get rid of that extra
image bit at the top. Flatten (layer > flatten image) and sharpen (filter > sharpen > sharpen).
Then duplicate the base twice.
Set the first layer copy to screen and the second to soft light. Both at 100%

It should now look like this:


Then I add a gradient
by zephia
set it to soft light 100%

Then a few stock images/texturesby wonderland__
(edit > transform > rotate 180) overlay 100%
(edit > transform > flip vertical) soft light 100%
(edit > transform > flip vertical) screen 100%
screen 63%
I add layer masks to all of them and erase out the parts that covers Emma, so that she shows through all of the blue :)

You should now have something like this


I flatten the image and apply yet another texture by wonderland__
lighten 47%

Then I add this texture by colorfilter
overlay 100%

And last I add a text brush (Nightwish lyrics by absolutetrouble)"welcome to hell" #656FA2 multiply 100%

You should end up with something similar to this:

I hope this was helpful. Since it's my first tutorial I'd love comments on this :) Enjoy!