All right, here is my buddy Rob on his Harley. So I'm going to do up a little image of him really quick here.
Now the first thing I’m going to do is I'm just going to resize this down to 72 DPI. And the only reason I'm doing that is just so that it runs a little bit faster for this tutorial.
The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to apply a defog, filter under your filter sharp and unsharp mask, and 20 60, just like that and you can see it just a little before and after. Perfect.
Now, I'm going to brighten this up and how I'm going to break this up is, I'm going to duplicate the layer and I'm going to change the blend mode to screen, just like that. And now, I'm going to use my eraser tool, and I'm just going to bring back some of the outer edges here. So I'm just going to darken this down a bit just like that. I'm just going to leave a little bit of glow on him adjust a little bit and I’ll drop this down to about—Perfect! So as you can see here, when I toggle off, just a little bit of painting there, and I'm going to flatten my image. There we go.
Now, one thing I want to do here is I’m going to do a different crop here. I'm going to crop this rate now. I want to bring him and get rid of some of this negative space here. I’m going to bring him over and place him in the bottom left hand side, so I’m just going to go to add a copy, file new, I’m just going to hit ok and edit paste, perfect, just like that, and I’m just going to get rid of this old one here. There we go.
Now, I am going to use my clone stamp and now I’m going to clone out this little white rock here, just like that.
Now, one thing I can do is just got some orange in his jacket here, and I have got this nice background. It’s a sort of, the depth in is out of focus and some isn’t, but I’m going to actually try to see if I can match these leaves, these green yellow leaves to a little bit of his orange in here. You know, see if I can kind of make it almost look like a fall theme twitter, just actually just manipulate the colors a bit.
Now, there are several ways I can do this. I can use my paint brush and go in to color them and isolate him and stuff like that, but I'm going to try this technique with a hue saturation. So I'm going to go to image adjustments and hue saturation. Now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to select red. It doesn’t matter which color you take right now but I'm just going to select the reds and see who it automatically chose this color picker here. I am just going to click on this green. Now I know there’s not a lot of green in him or on the road but it’s mostly in here, so I'm just going to click anywhere on here.
Now, see these sliders here, see how these sliders move. It’s showing me in that area that I just picked, it’s showing me the range of colors. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to pick, take these sliders here. I'm just going to pull them together just like that. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to increase the hue up to its max, and the only reason I'm doing this is just to show me the areas that are affected. I'm not actually going to change it. As you can see, some of this went blue. So I'm actually going to increase the saturation just to look perfect.
Now I'm going to check the plus color picker to add two sample and now I'm just going to actually click over here. Now, what that is doing is I'm actually adding to that color range selection. Now, as you can see here, I did pick some of his—see, now I'm starting to get some of his jacket and hat and stuff like that. So now, I'm just going to take the minus color picker and I'm just going to go back over. Good just like that.
Now, see how it’s all blue. Now I can use my hue saturation sliders to manipulate just that area. Pretty cool! So now, let’s see if I can get a nice color of an orange or something that I want. There we are, matching it up with his—perfect!. There, then I'm going to hit okay. See, before and after, how is that? That’s kind of nice.
Now I'm going to use my burn tool and I'm going to go in the highlight mode and I'm just going to go, just around the edges here just like that. That’s a little too much, I think. Let me just get a nice—there we are.
Now what I did is I actually took an image of the Harley Davidson logo on his motorcycle, a sticker he had on there. So I'm actually going to take that and I'm going to drop that in here just to add a little bit of more personalization to his image. So I have it on its own layer. So I'm just going to—with move to a click on it and hold that I'm going to use and just drag it on to my image here. Now it’s kind of big at the moment so I'm just going to go to image and edit and I'm going to go to a free transform or I can just press control T. There we go. In holding the shift key down, I can just resize that. Perfect! Let’s just drop it right there. And let’s put a drop shot on, and so to bring up the drop shot, I'm just going to double click the negative space here on the layer to bring out my layer styles. Let’s move this out of the way, and we’ll just click on drop shot, or I can increase that. Let’s just go just like that.
Now, I'm going to flatten now. I just had a pinstripe in a black—I'm just going to increase the saturation on this just a bit more, just give it a little more. All right, so I'm just going to choose and I'm going to create. So the pinstripe, I'm going to put so I set my orange as the background and now I'm just going to go to image canvas size and let’s go .05 for both just like that. And let’s go black now, same thing, image canvas size and let’s just go 2 and 2. Perfect! Just like that. How was that? Not too bad. Good. Thanks.
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