Well I've been following this community for while, so I thought I'd take a crack the whole tutorial thing. I used my Adobe Photoshop 8.0 and it's pretty simple - I mean if I can do it, any one can! ;P
We're going to go from
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Alright.
I started with this image from Vogue's huge September issue --->
I fiddled around with the coloring to make her skin paler, and eyes greener, and ended up with this --->
Then I did the ever-popular exclusion layer. I used #0C1628 and got --->
I made two raster layers filled with color #EBBFBF. I set them both to soft light, the bottom at %100 opacity and the top to %50 --->
It was far too pink for my tastes though, so I duplicated the base, draged it to the top and desaturated it. I set that layer to soft light at %50 opacity --->
Next, I placed this gradiant (sorry, I don't know who it's by):
and set it to overlay at %50 opacity giving me this --->
Now, I wanted to draw all the attention to her face, so I used my gradiant tool to blacken the lower right corner, covering her hand. I used a layer mask to erase what ever was cover her face, but you could just the eraser tool --->
Then I added added some tiny text, and a brush (again, I don't know who it's by but if you do, just let me know) --->
The last step was adding simple, black border, using the stroke tool set to 1px. And voila --->
Sorry for technical diffculties, I've just fixed it up!
We're going to go from
to .Alright.
I started with this image from Vogue's huge September issue --->
I fiddled around with the coloring to make her skin paler, and eyes greener, and ended up with this --->
Then I did the ever-popular exclusion layer. I used #0C1628 and got --->
I made two raster layers filled with color #EBBFBF. I set them both to soft light, the bottom at %100 opacity and the top to %50 --->
It was far too pink for my tastes though, so I duplicated the base, draged it to the top and desaturated it. I set that layer to soft light at %50 opacity --->
Next, I placed this gradiant (sorry, I don't know who it's by):
and set it to overlay at %50 opacity giving me this ---> Now, I wanted to draw all the attention to her face, so I used my gradiant tool to blacken the lower right corner, covering her hand. I used a layer mask to erase what ever was cover her face, but you could just the eraser tool --->
Then I added added some tiny text, and a brush (again, I don't know who it's by but if you do, just let me know) --->
The last step was adding simple, black border, using the stroke tool set to 1px. And voila --->
Sorry for technical diffculties, I've just fixed it up!