PS Synthesis Tutorial: Horror demon Synthesis

To complete such a perfect work requires a certain amount of creative thinking and design skills. Need to be careful to depict every detail of the screen, this effect is engaging.

The effect of the image below is somewhat similar to the taste of horror blockbusters. The color and screen composition are very good. Of course, to complete such a perfect work requires a certain creative thinking and design skills. Need to be careful to depict every detail of the screen, this effect is engaging.

Final effect

1. Open the background image shown below.

2. Add Demon: Open the Demon god body picture, drag into the picture, named "Body", now open the image of the head, use the box selector (M) to select the head area, use the Move tool (V), drag the head draw element to the picture, named "Head." Press ctrl+t, free deformation of the head, moderate rotation, so that it looks closer to the neck of the demon body, if you rotate to a satisfactory position, you can press ENTER. Now we need to fuse the header footage, add a layer mask to the head layer, and use a black brush to erase the elements you want to hide, so that part of the face is visible and covered in the ice element that is added later. In the same way, hide the eye part because we need to reveal the feeling of the sky covering. If you're not sure what to hide and what not to hide, look at the preview below.

3, open the skull picture, choose to have the material of the eye hole, you can pick the material that you feel suitable, then drag them into the picture, and put in the character's eye place, replace the eye. Create a new layer, use the Brush tool (B), select the dark green color to draw a 2 pupil of the drawing element, complete this step, you can complete the following picture:

4. Add ice: In this step, we need to add some ice to the head and hands of the character. Open the ice elements of the picture, select---color range, set the color tolerance 170, color range of 1 billion very practical tools, you can choose similar colors.

5, after you set the tolerance, click OK, so the tool has been selected, press CTRL + C, copy, press CTRL + V paste into our picture, press ctrl+t, the picture free deformation, adjust the appropriate size, about 1/4, change the layer mode for strong light ( You can find the layer mode at the top of the coating panel.

6. Add layer mask to ice layer, use brush tool (B), use abstract stylus brush (2 floor is not available, you can find a similar one). Now set the foreground color to black and use a brush to draw off the paint you want to hide, and in this process you need to keep the size and opacity of the horizontal brush in order to effectively achieve the effect. Now we need to do the same thing with the head and give it ice. On the ice picture selection color tolerance, copied to the picture, change their size, layer mode strong light, add layer mask, use the brush to remove some of the paint element. You will get the following effect.

7, to the head of the shadow: to the current appearance of the head is still a plane, looks very unreal, in this step, I will add some light sense and shadow integration. Create a new layer, fill in the gray (#808080), change the layer mode to overlay, now use the Dodge tool and the burn tool, you may occasionally to draw out the effect of undo and modify, if the shadow effect on the head is not good, later may not be able to carry out other painting element fusion.

8, add the Hourglass: Open the picture of the hourglass, pull out the hourglass of the painting element, drag into our picture, use the Freeform tool to change its size, and moderately rotate to a certain angle, let it feel caught in the hands of the characters, add a layer mask, select a small circle brush, change the opacity of the brush, Use Black to start erasing some of the paint elements that need to be removed so that it is embedded in your hand.

9, now we will add mobile motion. Copy the hourglass layer, put it under the hourglass image, use the filter-blur-motion blur, set the distance to 12, click OK. Now another is to add a shadow, under the dynamic layer, create a new layer, fill the color #808080, change the layer mode to overlay, select a round of the soft pen, choose just the color, opacity 200%, around the hourglass painting shadow, under the hand. To complete this step, you can see the following effects.

10, add splash of water: In this step, we will add splash of water around the demon, in this precious step, we need to use the Color range tool. Find some material with water waves or you can use a similar watermark brush. Open the picture of the watermark, choose-color range, set the appropriate color tolerance, and other steps 3 with the addition of ice, you can add more than one watermark to achieve a more realistic effect, you can look at the following effect chart, to select the steps and effects of the watermark added.

11, add Wizards: You can download a wizard or wizard-like figure, I used the original image has been invalidated, but this does not affect you can find a similar effect of the picture, select the picture dragged to the picture, using the free deformation adjustment to the appropriate size. Is it easy to create a new layer on the male Vertu layer, select a glowing brush, use the blue tone and draw a light sense? I also added a light sense to my hand, but you can decide how to create a better picture, you can choose different colors to make your pictures more beautiful.

12, add lightning: The main part is almost finished, now we continue to add some details, sugar pictures of color and light effect better, let us start to add lightning effect. Select the Brush tool, add lightning (flash brushes need to be downloaded, you can also use lightning picture footage), choose White, create a new layer, and add lightning effects where you want. If you've seen the effect of lightning in a storm, you can see the lightning is pretty in the clouds, now we know what needs to be done, create new layers again, fill in gray, Layer mode overlay, select round soft pen, opacity 10%, draw clouds on the image, so that the surrounding lightning looks brighter. I also painted some low-flying birds on the left and right of the devil in the picture, and the details are entirely up to you, and you can add other details.

13, local adjustment: Some parts of the devil's face need to be brighter, the hourglass part also needs a stronger contrast effect, we will complete the fusion in this step. Select the layer on the demon's face to add the color adjustment.

14, set the color level adjustment layer, input 0; 1,64;255, click OK, you can add a quick mask, modify the effect of adjusting the face. Now select the hourglass layer, add the gradient adjustment, enter 26; 1, 34; 215. Click OK and create a quick mask to adjust it.

15, add hazy feeling: Create a fantasy class effect chart, I need some dim transition. Create a new layer, select the Gradient tool (G), press ALT, select a light color, add you can see the effect of the following image, (in the wizard), in order to make the effect of disguise more clearly, I chose red, so you know how to do.

16, add local light: Now we will add eye-catching light, add new layer, fill neutral color #808080, change layer mode to overlay, now select filter--render (I did not install.) ---light effect, set menu as follows, click OK.

17, the Devil's head and right hand need a little light, the use of circular soft pen fusion picture, selection white, reduce opacity to 10%, now part of the surrounding add light effect, look more bright, if you want to make some of my memory, you can choose a black brush on the above painting. In this picture, you can see the full picture of my set of light effect layers.

18, you can notice that I have a little darker on the wizard part, you can see the effect in the next picture.

19, add diagram effect: This is a simple step, open the gray tune of the picture, drag to the picture, placed at the top of all layers, adjust your favorite opacity and blending mode, I use soft light and 37%.

20, local adjustment: In this step, we will set the image of the local color adjustment, add hue/saturation, set saturation data for-50. Now add the color balance, as shown in the figure below.

21, now we will change the light effect and contrast. Add brightness/contrast, set all +10, final adjustment, add photo filter, set blue effect, and let the picture be blue rendered.

22, Sharpening: Sharpening is the last step we want to do, choose the box Selection tool (M), select the entire map, edit---Merge layers, and copy once. Now select the filter--other--high contrast retention with a radius of 4 and a layer pattern superimposed so that you will see the following diagram effect.