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Design Wood Texture Face with Fiery Eye and Tear in Photoshop

By James QuJune 23, 20224 Mins Read
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In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Unique Wooden Face with Fiery Eye and Tear in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

The PSD file of this tutorial is available via the PSD Vault VIP members area.

The idea of this manipulation comes from browsing some ancient stone statue image on the internet – I decided to make something similar in Photoshop.

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:

Face

Tree Bark

Fire

Step 1

Create a new document with a black background (size doesn’t matter), load the face image into Photoshop, use the pen tool to draw a path as shown below:

Make a selection of this path by right-clicking within the path and choose “Make Selection”: (set to 1px feather)

Copy and paste the selection on our document, resize and centre it:

Use a soft eraser to remove the edges of the face (especially the back) as shown below:

Step 2

Add the following adjustments layer over the face layer as clipping mask:

Black and white

Levels

Layer mask on the levels adjustment layer:

Curves

and you will have the following effect:

Step 3

Now we will add the wood texture. Load the tree bark image into Photoshop, select the following area:

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, resize and rotate it as shown below:

Make this layer a clipping mask, and change the blending mode to “overlay”:

Add the following 2 adjustment layers as clipping mask again for this wood layer:

Black and white

Levels

Go back to the wood layer, use a soft eraser to remove some parts of the wood texture to reveal some skin:

and you will have the following effect so far:

Step 4

Now we will make the fiery eye. Load the fire image into Photoshop and select the following portion:

Smooth the edge out with the following refine edge filter settings:

Warp the fire texture as shown below to adjust its shape:

Change the blending mode of this fire layer to “hard light”, and remove the edges with a soft eraser:

Duplicate this fire layer once and change the layer blending mode of the duplicated layer to “Screen”, layer opacity to around 50%. You will have the following effect:

Step 5

We will now add some tear drop to the eye. Use the fire image and select the following portion:

Copy and paste the selection over the image, resize it and attach the smaller version to the eye, use a soft eraser to remove the edges to form a teary effect:

Use either a cloud brush or cloud filter to add some cloud effect around the face (this cloud layer should be under the face layer):

Step 6

Now let’s add some shining hair for the model. To do this, create a new layer and paint a white dot as shown below:

Use the liquify filter to warp the line as shown below, until it forms some sorts of hairy effect:

Duplicate this layer a few times and attach them to the head area:

I then use some abstract brushes to add some textures around the model, you can find plenty of those brushes on the internet:

I then further added some colour effect onto the image, and here is the final effect I have: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!

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James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience, mastering the software since its 5.0 version. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

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21 Comments

  1. Logoswish on May 2, 2012 12:57 AM

    Great tutorial. I like final output.

  2. AnnaAn on May 2, 2012 3:58 PM

    the link to FIRE do not have the file anymore. There are only wall textures

  3. AnnaAn on May 2, 2012 4:02 PM

    I found ur link to the right fire. I think this is the one http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=60409&PHPSESSID=ujeu719oev8ekmvnqvsnpen3p2

  4. PSD Vault on May 2, 2012 6:14 PM

    Looks like they changed the link url – fixed now :)

  5. Nisha Gandhi on May 3, 2012 4:36 PM

    wow cool tutorial!

  6. Online Logo Design on May 4, 2012 12:29 AM

    Wonderful tutorials, really great job, thanks for the share!

  7. wid on May 4, 2012 3:21 PM

    very great effect….cool imaging..!

  8. Didiercen on May 4, 2012 9:22 PM

    Great Tuto, like the final result…

  9. Matt - Attitude Graphic Design on May 9, 2012 2:11 AM

    Amazing effect – love the effect on the eyes. The liquify tool tip is especially useful so thanks for that…

  10. Rmi Enquiry on May 12, 2012 9:53 PM

     Do you have any tutorial for the smoke?

  11. raycar figuracion on May 14, 2012 2:39 PM

     Do you have any tutorial for the smoke?

  12. Quiver on May 29, 2012 6:57 AM

    First of all hello mister,

     I admire your work for almost a year now and I find nessecery to point that your tutorials helped me A LOT, and i mean a lot. I’d like to ask something, I’ve seen in your guides that you almost never show the last steps about the colours you put (and  thats not a judgement, i wouldn’t myself and im neither askin you to do this) but could you make a guide or something that explains how u put such colours on a Black n White image with steps like hue and saturation if I’m guessing right(?) etc.
    Best regards 
    Quiver.

  13. فرزاد کمالی فر on June 11, 2012 3:21 PM

    so simple and beauty
     

  14. Shekhar on July 24, 2012 6:49 AM

    THE TUTORIAL IS GREAT BUT EVEN THOUGH I TRY DOING THE WAYS YOU HAVE MENTIONED, THE PICTURES ARE NOT AT ALL LOOKING GOOD.

  15. PSD Vault on July 25, 2012 6:57 PM

    @Shekhar: the end result won’t always to be the exact same as the one on tutorial. There are lots of skills involved :) Practice hard.
    If you have something needed clarifying, please let me know.

    James

  16. Annoyed on August 3, 2012 2:39 AM

    I gave up with this, it was already going badly – then I reached the liquify part and it just outright pissed me off. Show us the settings, brush size etc. I couldn’t make it do anything near like what you pictured.

  17. Bokeh on February 16, 2013 9:23 AM

    This is one lovley TUT, and to leave final step is good, practice hard and you will reach it one day!

  18. Amit Kumar on March 23, 2013 12:33 AM

    hi very great effect .. do u have any video tut for this coz some of steps is little tricky nd its helpful for beginners like me

  19. vikash on August 30, 2013 4:54 PM

    i m unable to add colour effect plz plz plz help

  20. Harsh Tanwar on November 24, 2013 8:01 PM

    can you give me that cloud brush i reaaly need that and i appreciate ur work, i use cs5

  21. Kal on December 7, 2013 3:57 AM

    Its really confusing. Shallow explanation and few pics I think. I’m a noob at PS, but this is really vague. I’m stuck at Step 2: Do I keep the clipping mask till the end of the Step, do I release at some point ? I’m releasing the clipping mask and when I create the Level Layer with Mask I just don’t know how to get this shadowy effect. I’ll keep on trying, but someone please enhance this tutorial for us noobs.

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