male model tutorial with lots of effects.
(In Photoshop CS3, but I think most of it is translatable.)
Effects Used:
Bird effect, rainbow effect, squares effect, flower effect, shiny effect, pink blob effect, sharpen effect, gorgeous blue effect, black effect, and lines effect. Learn all these at once and spare yourself the trouble of multiple tutorials!
1.
Get your original picture and crop it. Mine is a picture of a gorgeous yet jailbaity male model whose eyebrows annoyingly don't match his hair. But like whatever! Because we're totally going to transform him.
2.
He looked a bit pale and colorless, so we're going to make a new selective color layer with these values:
Reds, -100, +100, +100.
Yellows, -100, 0, +100.
(To create a selective color layer, on the layers palette you click the little circle of "Create New Adjustment Layer" and then pick "selective color" from the fly-up box.)
3.
With your brush or pencil on 1 px, draw a line around him in the color of his suit! (To draw a line, you click and carefully drag your mouse along where you want the line to be.)
4.
Select the color black and choose a soft brush on a decent size like 19 or 27 px. Paint around him in black (to paint, you click and drag while the paintbrush is selected). To get your lines to show up, drag them above the black layer and then click Image>Adjustments>Invert.
5.
Blue is in right now, and our model needs more of it!. Make a new channel mix layer and put your settings like so:
Red, +70, -26, +6
Green, -14, +100, -4
Blue, +6, 0, +100
6.
Add a flower to make him beautiful! Mine is a transparent png by Timounette, so I just had to drag it onto my icon and resize until it fit in his hair!
7.
Add a texture for visual interest. This is also by Timounette and I just put it on screen.
8.
The colors didn't really "pop," so I added a hue/saturation layer of saturation +40.
9.
We want to add some little squares. The way to do that is to pick your rectangle tool, shift-click and drag to create a square, and then duplicate it once. Drag it several pixels over and floodfill it with a different color. Right click on the duplicate layer and merge down. Now you should have a layer with TWO squares on it. Duplicate that layer, move it a few pixels up, and floodfill the squares with different colors.
10.
A lot of people are using the "shiny" effect right now. To get it, pick a tan color, color over the picture a bit with the soft brush, and then use Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) on a setting of about 10 or so to soften it. To get the pink light, select a hot pink color and then just stamp a circle on with the 45 or 65 px soft brush. Set both layers to screen.
11.
To get the bird, go to photoshop's custom shapes. From the dropdown shape menu, click the animal set. Shift-click and drag so that your bird stays properly-proportioned. To get that rainbow effect, go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Pattern, check the box that says "Use previous layer to create clipping mask" or something similar (what that does is makes it so the new layer will only cover the areas that the previous layer covers, so it won't alter the colors of the background or anything), and then hit okay. When the dialog box pops up, you can pick a pattern selection. The rainbow is one of photoshop's defaults.
12.
Sharpen a few times and you're done!
(This whole tutorial is also located at my journal,
iconzero, where I also have a real tutorial, among other things.)