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Create a Pop Art Style Poster with Urban City Background in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process I used to create this Pop Art Style Poster with urban city background in Photoshop by using a combination of Photoshop Filter effects. Again this effect is discovered by accident and I thought I can share it with you guys :)

Along the way, we will be using a lot of filter effects, masking technique, layer blending options, a number of selection techniques including the use of edge refining and magic wand. The steps are quite simple for this tutorial, however the end result looks good in my opinion. Have a try!

Here is a preview of final image for this tutorial:

Black and White version:

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Ok let’s get started!

Step 1

Firstly let’s download this wonderful model image and load it into Photoshop. Duplicate the background layer once and go to Filter > Artistic > Cutout and apply the following settings:

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Name this duplicated layer as “cut out” and change the blending mode of it to “Hard Light”. Then make another duplication of this “cut out” layer and you will have the following effect:

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Now you will see the the bottom part of the photo is completely black, which is not very nice in my opinion. To reveal the original image, we can add a vector mask to each “cut out” layer and grab a big soft eraser to erase the portion as shown below:

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And you will see the original texture come back:

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Step 2

Go back to the background layer and make another duplication of it. Drag the duplicated layer on top of all previous layer and go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome and apply the following settings:

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Name this duplicated layer as “chrome” and change the layer blending mode to “soft light”. Then duplicate the “chrome” once more and you will have the following effect:

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Step 3

Now we can add a light source (I chose from the top right) for this image so later on we can have some dynamic light effect. To do this, go back to the background layer and duplicate it once more. Drag the duplicate layer above all other layers, go to Filter > Noise > Median and apply the following settings:

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Rename this layer as “Median” and add a vector mask to it, grab a big soft eraser and erase the portion as shown below:

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And you will have the folloiwng effect so far:

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Step 4

Now we can add a urban city background to the image. Download a copy of this city image and load it into Photoshop. Drag the entire image onto our canvas and resize until it covers the whole canvas.

On this newly created layer, apply the following adjustments:

Black and White

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Then apply the following filters:

Halftone Pattern

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Box Blur

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Name this layer as “city” and you will have the following effect as a result:

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Step 5

Go back to the background layer, grab the Magic Wand tool and make a selection of the white area:

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Hit Ctrl + Alt + R and bring up the Refine Edge tool, apply the following settings:

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Hit Ctrl + Shift + I and inverse the selection, go back to the “city” layer and go to Edit > Clear and you will have see the model image pop out:

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Step 6

Duplicate the “city” layer once and on the duplicated layer, go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and apply the following settings:

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Change the blending mode the duplicated layer to “Screen” and you will have the following effect:

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Make a duplicate of this duplicate layer, and change the layer blending mode to “color burn”. You will have the following effect:

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Step 7

Now the upper portion of the image seems a bit empty and we can add a bit of cloud texture to it. So download a copy of this cloud brushset and simply create a new layer and paint some cloud over it:

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Hint: to create a light source on the cloud, simply paint over the same position a few times. (In this case, it’s top right corner)

Step 8

To finalise the image, add two new adjustment layers as shown below:

Colour Balance

Shadow

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Midtones

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Curves

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And you will have the following effect:

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Ok that’s it for this tutorial! You can of course add some of your own texture or filter effect and see what the end results are!

Here is my final image for this tutorial: (I slightly adjusted the colour balance and ) – Click to enlarge:

Black and White version:

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Cheers and have a nice day!

coloring lips with photoshop

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coloring lips with photoshop

this is one of my cool trick on photoshop tutorial, coloring lips with simple steps, but i think it's will better to understand about "make selection using pen tool" before you do this trick, if you already see it, lets start dude...
1. take your object
2. then make selection on the lips using pen tool

3. make selection and 1 px for feather
4. change the color using "hue/saturation" by pressing Ctrl+ U

5. finish!!simple, isn't it??

Replicate Google’s Logo

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Have you ever wanted to make your logo look like the google logo? Well in this tutorial I will be showing you how to replicate google’s logo in Adobe Photoshop.

Step 1.

Create a new document (File>New) size doesn’t matter but I made mine 400 x 400 px with
a White Background.

Step 2.

Use the Text tool to write your company name, in this case Google. I used the font Catull, if you do not have this font you can use Times New Roman.

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Step 3.

Now you have to change the colour of each letter by highlighting the letter and selecting the colour. Use the colours that I have specified below.
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Step 4.

Now we go to Blending option (Layer>Layer Styles>Blending options) And we use the following settings.

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Step 5.

Now we have to add some lighting effects, we do this by going to (Filter>Render>Lighting Effects) use the following settings.

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Now you are done you should having something that looks similar to this and the Google logo.

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Dream Photo Effect

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I'll show you how to create dream photo effect.

Step 1: First open any image.

Step 2: Duplicate the layer For create nice dream effect go to Image> Adjustments> Photo Filter and apply these settings:

Step 3: Now go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur and apply these settings:

Step 4: Change the layer mode to Multiply and adjust the opacity slider according to requirement. In this image I use opacity to 80%.

Step 5: Then go to Image> Adjustments> Levels and select "Red" Channel.

Step 6: Duplicate the layer and change the mode back to Normal.
Go to Filter> Distort> Diffuse Glow and apply these settings:

Step 7: Reduce the opacity of the layer according to requirements. I use opacity 70%.

Step 8: In the final step go to Image> Adjustments> Brightness/Contrast and use these ettings:

Here's is the Final Result!:

Colorizing a Black and White Photo

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1. Open your Black and White photograph in Photoshop.

2. Click the "Edit in Quick Mask Mode" toggle button to enter Quick Mask Mode (or press Q).
3. Select a brush size appropriate for the size of your photograph. Choose Black as your foreground color.
4. Paint the area that you want to color. The paint will be a transparent red. This indicates where you are painting the mask.