In this tutorial, I will show you the processes of creating this “Diminishing Figure” Digital Art in Photoshop. We will build the effect around a human portrait image with metal, fire and abstract brushes. We will also be using image adjustments to fine tune the effect.
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This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky.
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:
Step 1
Create a new document sized 1440px * 880px with black background. Load the metal texture into Photoshop and select a portion of it with the rectangular marquee tool:
Copy and paste the selection over to our document, resize and position it as shown below:
Use a big soft eraser tool, remove the following parts from the texture as shown below:
Add the following image adjustment layers on top of the texture:
Black and White
Levels
and here is the effect so far:
Step 2
We will add the model image into our document. Load the image into Photoshop and select the model figure:
Copy and paste the selection over to our document, re-size and position it as shown below:
Apply the following “Watercolor” filter settings to this model layer:
Then add a layer mask to this model layer, use a grunge brush (you can find plenty of those on the internet) to remove the right side of the face:
Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this model layer:
Black and white
Levels
Curves
and here is the effect so far:
Step 3
We add a fiery eye for this model in this step. Load the fire spark image into Photoshop, select the following portion with an elliptical marquee tool:
Hint: make sure you set the feather of the marquee tool to around 15
Copy and paste the selection over to our document, re-size and position it as shown below, and set this new layer blending mode to “Hard Light”:
Duplicate this fiery eye layer twice, you will see fiery effect become more visible:
On the topmost fiery eye layer, use the Free Transform tool to warp the fire as shown below:
Then go back to the spark image, select the following area:
Copy and paste the selection to our document, re-size, rotate and position it as shown below:
Step 4
We will continue working on the fire in this step. Use the Warp tool to warp this fire line as shown below:
Go back to the spark image, use the lasso tool to select the spark portion:
Copy and paste the selection to our document, set its blending mode to “Screen”:
Move the sparks over to the fire layer and re-size it as shown below:
Repeat this process and add more fire sparks along the line, and here is my effect so far:
Step 5
We will add some final touches in this step. Load the Glitter image into Photoshop and select the entire canvas:
Copy and paste the selection to our document and place this new layer on top of all previous layers, set the blending mode to “Exclusion” and opacity to 40%:
and here is the effect you will have:
We can play with the liquify filter and add some liquid effect to the fire:
and this is my 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!
