Adam Ashraf-abadi
High Pass Effect (to create a dramatic gritty effect)
1. Open
our project image and duplicate the background layer. With the
‘Background Copy’ layer selected, go to ‘Filter’
on the menu and choose ‘Other’ -> ‘High Pass’,
enter ‘5′ pixels as the radius and click ok. Next, change
the blend of the ‘Background Copy’ layer to ‘Overlay’.
2. Duplicate
the original background layer again (’Background Copy 2′)
and move it to the very top of the layers list. With this new layer
selected in the layers palette, go to ‘Image’ on the main
menu and choose ‘Adjustment’ -> ‘De-saturate’.
Change the blend of this new layer to ‘Hard Light’.
3. Create
a new blank layer, then
using Shift+Ctr+Alt+E Merge the layer
in this new layer. Duplicate this layer and press ‘Ctrl+F’
(Command-F on Mac)
to apply the same filter effect used in step 1. Change the blend mode
of this layer
to ‘Overlay’.
4. Create a new blank layer again, then using Shift+Ctr+Alt+E Merge the layer in this new layer. Next, click the ‘Create New Adjustment Layer’ icon at the bottom of the layers palette and choose ‘Curves’. In the ‘Curves’ dialog add a point by clicking directly on the diagonal line (around the upper third in our example), move it toward the left, and click OK. This will lighten the entire image (but focus on the eyes).
5. Click
on the layer mask thumbnail of
the Curves adjustment layer we just created and press ‘Ctrl+i’
(Command-i on mac), the image will appear darker. Set your foreground
color to white (press D). Select the Brush tool from the toolbox and
using a soft edged brush (I used a brush with diameter of 15px and
hardness of 15%), paint over the eyes to brighten them up.
6.
Create a new layer, and change
your foreground color to a nice eye color you would like to highlight
your subject’s eyes with. We’re going to select a nice
light green for our subject. Change the blend mode of this layer to
‘Color’. Now using the same brush settings we used in the
previous step, paint over the eyes to highlight them with your
selected foreground color. If you find the color is too vivid, try
adjusting the layer opacity to lessen the effect.
Hand- Sketched Effects
Before
After
1-Open up the file Sketch Lady, and as usual duplicate it (Ctr+j).
2- Go to Channel panel and take a look at the channels, then highlight the red channel.
Use Ctr+A to select it, then Ctr+c to copy it. Then highlight the RGB channel.
3- Come back to layer panel and create a new blank layer (Ctr+J), then use Ctr+v to paste the red channel you have already copied.
4- Bring the level Command (Ctr+L) and darken the mid-tones level of the image (around 0.80). Press OK.
5- Duplicate this black and white layer, and change the blend mode to Color Dodge.
6- Use Ctr+I to invert the layer itself. So this image goes completely to white color.
7- Run a blur filter to it: Filter Menu/Gaussian Blur. You can control the amount of sketch here; now use Radius 10 pixels.
8- Merge these two black and white layers (Ctr+E).
9- Duplicate the new merged layer, and set its blend mode to Multiply, Then we can get back more darker lines. To lessen the hardness of the image decrease the amount of opacity to your desire level (e.g. 85%).
10- To create a color pencil type image, duplicate the background layer (the colored layer), then drag it all the way to the top.
11- Change the blend mode of this layer to color; so you can have a little bit of color tone to the neutral grey areas.
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