A tutorial on the supernatural metamorphosis of the root body by Photoshop

The PS translation Tutorial brings you the supernatural scene of using Photoshop to create a "vegetable". In this PS tutorial, some PS techniques will be combined to make the pattern look more authentic and attractive.

Let's look at the final effect of Photoshop.

Final effect Diagram

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Material

　　Mystic from Istock

Gnarley Roots from the stock Xchange

　　Roots from the stock Xchange

　　Tree Bark texture from Xchange

　　Grass brushes from deviant Art

　　X6 Grunge Pack from Deviant A

Step 1

The material is very important for PS synthesis design. After defining the design idea, it often takes a lot of thought to find the right material. The author here introduces istock this material storehouse,

The material inside is really good, but need to spend silver to buy. It may take some time for the user who needs the PS tutorial in the exercise book to get to the appropriate material again.

In this PS tutorial, the author selected a double knee kneeling, hands with the eyes open up the male model as the main role of the PS synthesis design.

First, the characters from the background of the source separation, the simple point is to pull the map. There are many tool-drawing tools, such as Eraser, magic wand, layer mask, etc. In the tutorial, I use the path mode

Pen tool. For beginners, pens may be difficult to master, and you can choose the combination of the magic wand plus mask.

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Along the male model's body contour, adds the pen anchor point one by one, until forms the closed path. We can see from the following figure, the author in detail place anchor point will be more, so more details

will be preserved.

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Close the pen path, right-click on the edge of the path to eject the Drop-down menu, select "Create a Selection", and click OK.

You can then see the dotted line around the area you just selected, select Select > deselect, and then press Delete to remove the background. The following figure is the author adds a layer and fills in the black,

Let's see the effect of removing the background more clearly.

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Step 2

Create a new canvas with a width of 17 inches * 11 inches, 300dpi resolution, and then double-click the new canvas in the Layers panel to select OK in the pop-up dialog box to unlock the canvas.

Then double-click the canvas layer, tick the color overlay, fill the dark gray color #525252.

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