In this tutorial, I will show you the steps to create this awesome photo manipulation of a lady portrait shot with flower patterns in Photoshop. Have a try!
This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be challenging.
Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in Photoshop CC – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.
Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)
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OK Let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:
Various Crack Brushes and Grunge Brushes (Google and you should be able to find lots of these)
Note: If you have difficulty with Step 3 – 5 of this tutorial, please check out this video tutorial below:
Step 1
Create a new document sized 800px * 1030px with black background. Load the background texture into Photoshop and select the following piece:
Copy and paste the selection over to our document and cover the entire canvas:
Use a combination of grunge and crack brushes as eraser, remove parts of the texture as shown below:
Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this texture:
Black and White
Layer mask for the above black and white adjustment layer:
Levels
Curves
and here is the effect so far:
Step 2
We will work on the model in this step. Load the model image into Photoshop and select the following portion:
Copy and paste the selection over to our document, re-size and position it as shown below:
Apply the following layer mask on the model layer (in red), you can use a combination of grunge or splatter brush to achieve this:
And here is my effect after the layer mask:
Add the following adjustment layer as clipping masks to this model layer:
Black and White
Apply layer mask on the above black and white adjustment layer to reveal the lips area:
Levels
and here is my effect so far:
Step 3
We will add some green pattern over the face area in this step. Load the flower image into Photoshop and select the following area with Lasso Tool (40px feather):
Copy and paste the selection over to our document, resize as shown below:
Set it as clipping mask to the face layer (put this layer above the previous adjustment layers):
Use a small, hard eraser, remove the following parts from this green layer and reveal the face below:
Step 4
We will add the flower patterns over to our image. Again we use the Lasso Tool (40px feather) to select a portion as shown below:
Copy and paste the selection over to our document and place it below the model layer. Use a small, hard eraser to remove all parts except the pink flower bits:
Apply the following levels adjustment to this flower layer:
and here is the effect so far:
Duplicate this flower a few times and move them to the top as shown below:
Step 5
We’re almost done! To add some final touch-ups for our design, we can paint some splatters around the flower as shown below:
Add some cloud/smoke effect around the canvas:
Use the blur tool the blur-out some flowers on the top:
We’re then flatten the image, duplicate the background layer and apply the following Accented Edges filter to the duplicated layer:
Add the following layer mask to this duplicate layer:
and this is effect I have so far:
I further added some colours with a number of adjustment layer (selective color, curves, vibrance), I will leave this for you to experiment!
Here is the final effect: (click to enlarge)
That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy going through it and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.
Till next time, have a great day!
