Art Class

Hello all,

I'm sorry 'cause I was off for a while, because I had some things in school to fix and that. While studying friend of mine asked me could I write a tutorial on how to make something like the picture below:



I was very pleasently suprised, because I was thinking to shut down blog and I was thinking that I don't got any visitors. But, later I changed my mind and wanted to continue my work. So, I hope you'll read these stuff and it will be more entertaining from now. In the next rows you can find out how to make very similiar picture like the above one...

In this tutorial you'll learn next:

- change the background
- cut objects from a photo
- make an abstract art
- change layer blending options

First open the Photoshop and then open desired photo. I'll use this one. It's great and it has awsome colors for blending. This is the photo:



Isn't she great :) ? Now take a pen tool and make sure to set your pen options like these below:



then follow my steps in the next video:

VIDEO Download - PEN TOOL ~10 MB

You learned how to use Pen tool. Now if your picture have more things to delete unselect them with any selection tool by holding the Alt key and selecting. I must unselect this part of my picture:



The part which I must unselect is colored by red borders. When you unselected unwanted part you must click Ctrl+Shift+I or go under Menu/Select/Inverse. That option will inverse the selection, so our selection will not be an object of the picture, it will be the background. Now the spectacle. We want to 'destroy' background, but be aware your Background layer MUST BE UNLOCKED!!! If it's locked double click on the lock on the right side of layer's name and it will open the new window. Just click OK.





Now you can click Delete button or go under Edit/Clear. Whoila! You've got an object without background. Now, we must make a brand new background. I made my background with dozens of gradients and brushes. It's very easy. Make a new layer and set it below your object layer and just draw whatever you want. This is how my background and picture looks so far:



I like it a lot. Now it's time to copy the object layer and set some options and get awesome art results. First click the object layer and then click Ctrl+J or go under Menu/Layers/Duplicate Layers.../OK. Your layer is copied. Now, I want to resize my picture and set the head of the babe to high and delete the rest of body. After you make that layer you like, just put it below the object layer and above background layer. So, the newest layer should be in the middle beetween background and object layers. After that just change the layer blending from Normal to Overlay, so the color of the object should be same color like the background. It wasn't very hard isn't it? I hope you like tutorial. This is my result:



Pretty nice, and I like it a lot. That should be that for this time. I don't know when will I write new tutorial, but I beg you to vote which tutorials you would like in the future - Video or Textual Tutorials. The POOL is on the right side of the blog. Have a good time and enjoy staying on blog.

Bye =)

NOTE: "The video file size is about ~10-11 MB and it is uploaded to Rapidshare. When you click the red link it will open the Rapidshare website, you just have to click FREE button on the bottom of the rapidshare page and then wait about 20 seconds until you get code, then just enter the code into the box and you'll get download link." - Dzahdo

P.S. I hope you're not mad because of this upload, but the thing is that I don't have any web space, so if you would like you can push me with some donations for my work. If you want to do that just contact me on my mail - dzkljako@gmail.com...