January 17, 2014 Photoshop CS 6 Human head muscle to bone

 

1. Open Photoshop.

2. Have a front view of a skull, human muscle anatomy, and a front view of a persons face like shown below.

3. Open them in Photoshop.

4. Make sure your foreground and background are set to default like show in Figure 1.

Figure 1

5.  Drag your Skull picture to the human tab and drop it on the human tab as shown in figure 2. This will create a new layer.

Figure 2

6. Lower the Opacity of your skull to so that you can see the human face and the skull both. Align the skull properly to the face as shown in Figure 3 and 4. It won’t be perfect.

Figure 3

Figure 4

7. Add a layer mask to the skull layer and make the Opacity 100% as shown in figure 5 and 6.

Figure 5

Figure 6

8. Take your brush tool and paint over the skull layer as shown in figure 7.

Figure 7

9. Switch the foreground background so the white in the foreground color.

10. Paint over a section of the face as shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8

11. Open the muscle photo and drag it to the human face photo same as in step 5.

12. Lower Opacity and align the muscles to the face as shown in figure 9.

Figure 9

13. Repeat step 8-10 as shown inFigure 10.

Figure 10

14. Change your mode to painting and change your brushes to Natural Brushes as shown in Figure 11 and 12.

Figure 11

Figure 12.

15. Select the skull mask layer and select the 29 brush. No spacing. Feather the mask layer slightly and brush it around to fade skin and skull as shown in Figure 13 and 14.

Figure 13

Figure 14

16. Repeat step 15 on the muscle mask layer.

17. All done, edit as you please.

Finished photo.

 

 

 

March 28, 2014 Photoshop CS 6 Making an animal Rainbow colored

 

First things first pick a white colored animal. This is just to make things easy and simple.

1. Select the animal like shown in figure 1.

Figure 1

2. Make a new layer and show in figure 2.

Figure 2

3. Select the layer with the wolf still selected and click on the Gradient tool as shown in figure 3.

Figure 3

4. Select the rainbow gradient in the upper left hand of the photoshop screen as shown in figure 4.

Figure 4

5. Take your new layer with the wolf selection and drag the rainbow across the screen to your liking as shown in figure 5.

Figure 5.

6. Change the blending mode of the new rainbow layer to soft light as shown in figure 6.

Figure 6

7. Go through and erase the rainbow where if should not go. Mine will be the open mouth and teeth as show in figure 7.

Figure 7

8. If you have uncolored fur take the blur tool as shown in figure 8 and blur the rainbow into the fur.

Figure 8

All done.