July, 2008
In this tutorial we will show you how to add a decoration into a face in Photoshop CS3.
Open up a photo of a girls face.
Then, make an art drawing in Corel of any design you like. That will be the future decoration of the girls face.
Export it as a jpg file.
Then open it in Photoshop:
After doing so, paste the image into the girls face photo.
Then select all the graphic image and make a copy of it.
After that, go to the windows channels and create a new one:
Being at Alpha 1, select: paste.
Then fill it with a white color and deselect it.
After that we need to duplicate the Alpha 1 channel:
Then blur it:
After that, select the following settings at the Levels window:
Now, lets duplicate the Alpha 1 Copy channel:
Then, fill it with Gaussian blur:
Now, being at Alpha 1 copy 2, press control and click over Alpha 1 copy.
This will happen:
Fill it with a black color and deselect it.
Click over the RGB channels again and go to the Layers window.
Create a new layer and fill it with a gray color:
After doing so, add a lighting effect.
Give the following settings:
Now we need to resize the graphic:
Also, we need to apply a Drop Shadow:
This is the result:
Have fun!!
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