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Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos

PublishedJanuary 9, 2010
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Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 6:

We personally found her outfit a little bit to complex so we decided to remove some lines, and all we have done is just using a Brush Tool with soft edge and color that matches the clothes she is wearing. Using a medium size brush, simply go over her outfit, covering the shades and sew-marks. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look too organic yet, we will make it look blended in well later.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

However, to avoid your painting over clothes look out of place, we are going to swap the blending mode of this layer from normal to Screen…

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 7:

Fixing the girl’s skin is going to be our next step in this tutorial. Using the Blur Tool, go over her skin and blur it, especially in places that got pixelated because of the JPG compression, that is to say — near the transition to other colors.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

This should be your result so far, with the skin nicely smoothed, whitened outfit, overall photo adjustment of the layer:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 7:

We also want to add a nice twirly shape which will add some twist to our composition, so select any twirly shape you have in your arsenal, something that won’t be too complex or too. If you wish to avail of the same brush we have use, feel free to download the PSD file at the end of this tutorial.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Place the Shape onto the canvas, using White color as your Foreground color:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 8:

Press Ctrl + T to start transforming, Right Mouse Click to see the menu and select the “Distort” option, distorting the shape in just as you see below:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Go to Layer Styles option for this shape and apply glow using white color as well.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 9:

As any modern artwork, it should consist from plenty of layers with many little details. so Select the brush tool, and using the maple leaves brush, go to brush presets, apply the following settings:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

and scatter it, just like this:

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 10:

Use baby blue as your foreground and white as background colors, chaotically work with your brush across the canvas, trying to follow the flower and shape lines.

Design Thai-Styled Angelic Artwork From Ordinary Photos - PS Tutorials Lorelei Web Design

Step 11:

Set the blending mode of these leaves to “Screen”, in order to give it a nice semi-transparent yet vividly visible effect.

Using a much smaller  brush, and a darker baby-blue hue, create a new layer and go with the brush over the canvas again, concentrating on the lady’s layer:

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24 responses

  1. Deepu Balan January 9, 2010

    Very well written… Great tutorial, Appreciate your efforts. Thanks! 🙂

    -Deepu

    Reply
    1. Lorelei January 9, 2010

      Thanks a lot, Deepu!

      Reply
  2. Will Thompson January 9, 2010

    Very interesting use of layers, color, and a theme on tourist-oriented media…. But where is the PSD file to get the swirly flourishes for later use? I like those ones shown. Best wishes, and a wonderful 2010 to all!
    -will

    Reply
    1. Lorelei January 10, 2010

      Oh, so sorry about the PSD, I forgot to add it. Fixed now, please refresh the page and download 🙂

      Best wishes for you in the new year too, Will!

      Reply
  3. norm January 11, 2010

    Good, beaatufil efect armoni

    Reply
  4. Badr eddine January 13, 2010

    Sooooooo Cuuuuuuuute Thaaaaaaanks

    Reply
  5. Richard DelaCruz January 13, 2010

    I love your site I love the whole program in fact im gonna try it myself to see if its hard to create colors are awesome.

    Thanks for showing me how to do it.

    Richard

    Reply
  6. MC January 13, 2010

    Doing the tutorial right now I downloaded the brushes but it says it’s not compatable with my PS I have CS4.

    Reply
    1. Lorelei January 13, 2010

      Hi, what is not compatible, the brushes..?

      Reply
  7. irene January 13, 2010

    Great tutorial, thank you so much! Keep doing such things 🙂

    Reply
  8. heru widyantoro January 15, 2010

    it’s great… i like

    thanks for inspiration

    regards

    heru

    Reply
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    Reply
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    Thanks, can’t wait to try this one!

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