
Well, I thought this might be fun! Here are 15 main stages that I went through to make Andy’s picture into what it ended up as, and each step/transition is detailed below. I hope you find it useful in some way if you like doing the same kind of stuff as me 🙂
1) The original picture
2) Mask out the background using a soft round brush at about 4 pixels. If you don’t know about masking, I really recommend looking up some online tutorials. It’s such a cool thing to do. This leaves Andy visible, and the area around him transparent.
3) Add a nice flat background colour.
4) Add an off-centre vignette.
5) Add a texture to the background only. Set to overlay/darken/multiply (whatever works best) and adjust the opacity to taste.
6) I added a little more shadow behind the legs to join the background and foreground up a bit.
7) Add some snazzy text.
8) Slap a paper texture stock image over the top and erase out the main areas that you don’t want it to affect too much. I wanted the face to be left alone. (Ignore that stupid block over the leg, that was to do with the label that pops up later)
9) Invert it.
10) I set this to linear add, but again it’s often a case of flipping through the layer styles and seeing what works best.
11, 12 and 13) Do exactly the same with a scrappy border stock image.
14) I added a bit more texture bottom left to look like an old removed label of some sort.
15) Play with the colours. This is TOTALLY personal preference, but the goal here was to look like a faded magazine page. You can investigate photoshop actions, lightroom presets or just play manually with curves and levels in photoshop.
There! I hope you like it 🙂
Posted by Mr. Moog on 2009-05-13 21:44:04
Tagged: , Andy , Celluloidson , guide , photoshop , texture , layer