Experimenting with layers and textures
I’ve been a little under the weather the last two days and, this morning, when I just couldn’t sleep anymore, I started experimenting with layers and textures in Photoshop. I took an old image I had of my wonderful girlfriend and decided to play around with it a bit. I thought I’d share it below…
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I wish I could tell you exactly how I did it. Like I said I was playing around and trying different things and this is what I ended up with. The basic gist of what I did was, duplicated the image twice to end up with three identical layers. I used the Multiply blending option on one of them and desaturated the color to varying levels in each of the duplicates. This left me with a somewhat dark image. Then, I used the Eraser tool at varying Opacity levels to bring out her face and eyes. Finally, I overlayed a texture on top, and brought out the Eraser tool again, to smooth out the texture around her face and arms.
I was actually going for a dark, goth-like feel and I managed to get to a point where I was happy with the image.
I hope my explanation above helped… Once I get more practice and get this down to a repeatable process, I’ll consider writing a brief tutorial.
March 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I like it! You do a great job of drawing attention to her eyes. I look forward to the tutorial!
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
Nice Capture, I like grunge
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
Thanks guys! I had a lot of fun playing around with it. I’ll try to put a tutorial together soon!
March 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I LOVE texture….I just did some texture experiments myself recently. this camt out great. perfect photo for it!
March 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Thanks Jen! I’m having a blast with it! And, as a result, my girlfriend’s a bit nervous! haha…