Since we are going to make a perfume commercial, we will be working with a glamorous portrait photo. Here we are using a paid stock, hence we cannot offer a psd file for a download.

Step 2. Applying Infra Red Filter

A lot of people are not aware how to process photos using the infra red channel, even though it’s actually very easy. Your photo will turn black and white, but we will enhance one color at the cost of another, and this opens a very wide filed to creativity.
You can make the lips very pale, and the skin tanned (which is what we are going to do here), or we can make the skin pale, and the lips dark red. If you’d like to play more with Infra Red image processing, I suggest to download our Infra Red Photoshop Actions, it costs only $1 to buy and will allow you do image processing in one click.

So, if you do it on your own, go to Image >> Adjustments >> Channel Mixer and apply the following settings in the window that will pop out.

This gives exactly the so-called “safari effect” that was so popular back in the 70′s light lipgloss and dark skin. Although the results may vary, depending on your base photo, it will be more or less the same if the initial picture is more or less in same shades as the one we are using.

This is what we’ve got:

Step 3. Applying Sun Kissed Look

We are not looking to get a natural photo, since we are designing a commercial poster, they are all well known for being over processed, over saturated and mostly way over airbrushed!

Click on the tiny icon at the bottom of your Photoshop’s Layers Pallet, which looks like half black and half white pie (Create new filler adjustment layer). This will pop out a menu with different filler options, choose “Gradient map…”

Use the following colors: #1c1c1c as your dark one, which loos almost like black, and
#ca8c03 as yellow brown.

Apply the gradient map.

Step 5. Adding Playful Sun Rays.

Next, we will be adding playful and cheery sun rays. This requires having some brushes in your arsenal, though we will be working withing something that came pre installed with Photoshop CS3 to make sure everyone who follows this tutorial will be able to reproduce our results.

We are using a brush called “Rough Dry Brush”, though pick a bigger size than the default one, let’s go with at least 300px, depending on you photo size. Using the white color as your foreground, chaotically apply the brush all around the girl, without touching her face, see the photo below:

After applying the dots, this is what you should get

Don’t worry about the pixelated edges of the dots, we are just off to fix it! While the layer with dots is still selected, to to Filter >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur, and apply the settings you see below:

Now, set the blending mode of this layer to “Overlay”, this will give a nice and very sweet look of sun coming through some hollowed surface.

Step 6. Choosing a photo. Adding Sun To the Face

Duplicate the layer with sun rays and move it a bit, so you can go over the face. Press Ctrl + T, and right-mouse-click, to get the small sub menu, where you will choose the mode “Wrap”. Distort it as on the picture below, to get a more 3D effect of the rays spreading all over her face.

Using the eraser tool, be sure to clean up any remains of the rays that fall “outside” the face area.

Step 7. Colorizing makeup and Diamonds

Create a new layer, and using a very bright blue color #20b8d0, start adding eye shadows on top of the existing ones, or instead of any makeup you may have on the portrait. Set the layer’s blending mode to “Overlay” as well…

After you finished working with the eyes area, using the same layer and color (it’s important, so you won’t create a salad of colors on your canvas) choose a smaller brush

colorize the earnings, or the any other detail (a small detail) that you see on the photo.

We chose to colorize the stones in the earnings, that gave enough balance and worked well together with eyeshadows. Again, we are not after a natural look on this tutorial, we are making an exaggerated commercial… and this is how they are made in Photoshop.

Final Touches

Lastly, add a perfume bottle and text. you may play with blending options to get the text in the same hue as the other colors on your canvas. remember that balance and harmony is the key, even if we make something over-polished.

This is your final result, and I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. Be sure to subscribe to our feed and like us on facebook.

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2 previews of the styles with different fonts
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Styles:

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* Fantastic – pressed beautiful text effect with background texture
* Awesome – glowing gold effect
* Nice – cartoonish grey embossed
* Good – semi transparent glass effect with high beveled effect
* Cool – chrome effect with light texture
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Important! When purchasing the PSD file, please click the “Return To Merchant’s Site” orange button once you made the payment, otherwise the download will not start automatically. If anything went wrong, just email me to the paypal address email. Font is not included in the download.

Step 1 - Create a new canvas of any size you wish, we used a relatively small one and filled it with dark blue #3b434f. Select a curvy and nice font that will be able to show beautifully all the details for this text effect. We used Renaissance font and went for a really big size!!

Step 2 – Go to Layer Styles and apply the following settings:

We set the shadow to black and reduced the opacity to almost half, this will look amazing on even bigger font size and grained or busy background.

Set the inner shadow to black and full opacity. The curve quality is called “chrome” and it is one of the default ones in most Photoshop versions.

Set the Outer Glow to Linear Dodge and use a crazy blue hue as we did – #00e4ff.

Pay attention to inner glow, using semi transparent white color and Linear Dodge effect as well, we are getting a very nice look…

Cove – Deep, this is the curve you will use for bevel effect, note that this text effect doesn’t look bevelled at all, yet the mild settings we use give it full depth and 3D feel.

We are using “Gaussian” countour for Satin settings, with mild and beautiful mauve hue.

Gradient overlay – #808080 to black, and then once again #808080 to white. Note that we are using “Reflected” style, but even any other will look great!

Almost invisible #003e73 dark blue 1 pixel stroke will add wholeness to this pixel perfect text effect.
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Step 1. Preparing the Photoshop Canvas.

Create a new Photoshop file (Ctrl + N). We are using 600*400 size here but as always — yours could be a lot bigger if you need.

Using the Paint Bucket tool, fill the canvas with grey-blue dark color — #535559.

Step 2. Choosing the font.

I am personally a big fan of all the fonts that were used and popular back in the 50′s, so my all time favorite font will probably be “Bello”. it’s not free, but you can purchase it online. Please note that if you purchase the PSD file, the font will NOT be included, as we cannot distribute commercial fonts. So, if you have Bello font, select it and type your word in big letter, we used 188pt here.

Step 3. Adding Layer Styles.

Now, while your text layer is still selected, go to Layer >> Layer Styles, and apply the following settings…

Now the background texture. We will be using a pattern which we created ourselves, and if you purchase the psd file it will be included already in the style itself.

Lastly, we will add a 1px stroke, with gradient overlay, to give the text more depth.

This is what we have got so far, with all the layer styles applied correctly. If your result differs from what you see here, go back and check if all the settings for layer styles have been applied correctly, so far it’s only the technical part, so you should not have any problem.

Step 4. Adding Depth to the Canvas.

It’s the era of web 2.0 and having a flat canvas can ruin any effect, no matter how beautiful it is, so if we want our effect to pop, it has to have some depth. That’s why we will not get back to the base canvas (if it’s locked, simply double click it on the layers palette, and press OK to unlock). Go to Layer >> Layer Styles, and apply the following settings:

For the gradient, use the following colors:
1. #667c85 as the light blue
2. #475e68 as the dark blue

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For thumbnails in posts please use the key “Thumbnail” (without quotes) while for images in the slider use the key “slide“. You will also need to download, install and activate the FeatureMe plugin: http://www.bioxd.com/featureme/. Enjoy!

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