Welcome!

[Sapphire Bagheera]

For this tutorial, you will need:

PictureOne
PictureTwo
Texture1
Texture2

Feel free to post your results on this thread!

Note: Credit for images goes to the photographer, Annie Leibovitz.
Credit for textures goes to Hybrid Genesis.


Today you will be learning to make this tut:

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It's pretty simple in steps, but the skill come in learning to work with hues, brightness, and saturation.

First, take PictureOne, crop it to your liking, and copy and paste it onto a new canvas. Duplicate the layer and sharpen the edges.

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Mine Happens to be cropped at W=503 H=165. When cropping, don't make it random. While you may want the illusion of randomness, you still want to actually plan out where to crop to make it look artistically tastefull. Copy the image onto a new layer, then find the fill/adjustment layer button at the bottom of the navigator window. (Posted Image) Scroll down to brightness/contrast and put brightness at +100 and contrast at +33.

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Go back to the fill/adjustment layer button and find hue/saturation. Fill in the blanks as such:
Master: Saturation: -59
Greens: Saturation: +60
Cyans: Saturation: +69
Blues: Hues: -39

You are more than welcome to play with the numbers and come up with a totally new look as you see fit. This is about learning to play with colors! Just keep in mind what colors you really want to stand out, and which ones you want to fade and/or accent the main color(s). Don't just change colors hap-hazardly or you won't learn anything but how to get lucky. I wanted blues, especially cyans, to stand out, while reds could fade. Yellows were fine the way they were, and greens I toned down just a hint so that it didn't look to colorful (although I LOVE colorful images!!)

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Use Texture1 and layer it over your image, setting it on hard light at 24%.

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Now take PictureTwo and open it onto a brand new canvas. Figure out what parts of the image you want to copy and crop a square onto the first section you choose Don't get rid of the marquee surrounding the image just yet! Avoid making perfect squares because the size of the base image is too wide; perfect squares would look too awkward, too big, or would have to have too much space between them. Then again, that's just me. My squares are W=103 H=89. Now back to the marquee surrounding the first square: to make the other two images the exact size, simply move the marquee over using the arrow keys, then copy the new image, paste, then go back and move the marquee with the arrow keys once again.

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Now for the borders! Right click>select all to marquee the entire image. Use the color dropper tool (Posted Image) to choose a color you want the border to be. Then go to Edit>Stroke and change the opacity to 50% and stroke to 5 pixels for the three front images, and 10 pixels for the main border. Now take Texture2 and layer it over your image. Set it on overlay at 100%. Now take the eraser tool, (Posted Image) use the size 35 soft brush and set it to 39%. Erase all of the texture around the three images, but do not erase in between the images. Lastly, go back to Edit>Stroke and make a white, 1 pixel border around the entire image just as a last finisher.

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Voila! You are finished!

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Done.

But it was better when you did it. :B

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[Sapphire Bagheera]

*claps* I love how you took it and made it your own!!

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Thank you. (:

...although some of the colors, like there's little bits of neon everywhere, and the text all irk me. I might redo it later to see if I can get it to turn out better.

[Rancidxdreaming]

Here's my attempt!
Not quite sure how I feel about the colors I ran with, but... eh. I'll play with it again later. It was fun though. :)

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[Sapphire Bagheera]

Lol I think the both of you ended up making something nicer than mine :D