Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking. We will show you how you can apply brush painting and layer masking techniques to create unique and interesting effect for your portrait manipulation.

Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in CS6 therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as in the earlier version. Some brushes are exclusive to Photoshop CS6.

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Lets get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Model

Debris Brush

Stone Wall Texture

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1000px * 1000px with white background. Load the stone wall texture into Photoshop and select a portion as shown below:

1 sel 500x491 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Copy and paste the selection onto our document, resize it to fix the document size:

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Use a soft eraser with 50% flow and opacity, erase the following portions of this texture layer:

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Add the following 3 adjustment layers on top of this texture layer:

Black and White

1 bw1 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Levels

1 lvs1 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Curves

1 curves Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

and here is the effect so far:

1 effect1 500x491 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Step 2

Load the model image into Photoshop and cut the model out, paste it onto our document. Resize and position it as shown below:

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Apply the following Surface Blur filter to this model layer:

2 surface blur Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Use a combination of soft and hard brush, as well as the debris brush, apply the following layer mask on this model layer:

2 mask 500x483 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

and here is the effect so far:

2 effect 500x573 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Step 3

Add the following 3 adjustment layers as clipping masks to the model layer:

Black and White

3 bw Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Layer mask on the black and white adjustment  layer:

3 bw mask 500x521 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Levels

3 lvs Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Layer mask on this Levels adjustment layer:

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Curves

3 curves Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

and here is the effect so far:

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Step 4

This is the fun part of this tutorial :) Lets grab this Round Fan Stiff Thin Bristles brush, make sure you set the brush setting according to the screenshot below (click to enlarge):

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Use this brush to paint some pattern on a new layer, to the area shown below:

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We can also grab this Round Paint Stiff brush and paint something on a new layer:

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Use the liquify filter to warp this painting so it forms a flowing pattern:

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Attach this to the right eye as shown below:

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Step 5

I decided to have a play with the hair area and add some effect to it. So I used the Quick Selection Tool with a 10px size setting:

5 quick Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Draw a selection of the hair area:

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Fill the selection with white colour and use a soft eraser to remove the top portion of this fill, as shown below:

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Change the blending mode to Overlay, slightly reduce the layer opacity to around 90%:

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Duplicate this layer once and keep its blending mode as Overlay, move it down a bit to the forehead area:

5 dup 500x219 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Step 6

Ok were almost done. For some final touches, I painted some particles aroudn the model with the debris brush we downloaded earlier (make sure you reduce the brush size before you paint):

6 debris 500x487 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

To add some more colour into the image, I added a Vibrance adjustment layer with the following settings:

6 vib Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

freestyle debris portrait flatten 3 500x500 Freestyle Human Portrait Manipulation in Photoshop with Brush Painting and Layer Masking

Thats it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!


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