How to Cheat with Visualization in Photoshop

Have you ever seen any fruits or vegetables with a face? In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make realistic view collage with fruit and human face.

In the beginning you should find the picture of ay fruit or vegetable. I prefer to use this one picture of pear. Open up the picture.

Then you need to find appropriate picture of human face to put it on the fruit. You can use mine picture or feel free to use your own. Ok, open up the picture and copy it to the first canvas with fruit. Then set up opacity to 45% for this layer and use Edit > Free Transform to reduce the picture and rotate it as on my picture below.

Set up opacity to 100% for current layer again and begin cleaning work with Eraser Tool. Use soft round brush with opacity about 30%. Remove all parts, leaving only the eyes, lips and nose.

After that select hard round brush and make clear finger area.

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer and hide the copy (click on the eye, which indicates layer visibility). Go to lower layer and apply Image > Adjustments > Color Balance with next presets:

See the result below:

After that use Image > Adjustments >Hue/Saturation:

The picture should look like this:

After that select the Burn Tool (Brush: 70px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 30%) to make some burn work.

Go back to the hidden layer and make it visible again. Select the Eraser Tool again and remove all content, leaving just eyeballs, nostrils and mouth.

Then apply Image > Adjustments > Levels to this layer:



See the result below:

After that get out the Burn Tool (Brush: 70px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 30%) again and darken nostrils and mouth areas.

Select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush with 30% opacity and make little clean work on the same areas.

Looks good, isn’t it? Ok, move to the next step. We should add the pear texture to the face. Go to the background layer and make selection with Polygonal Lasso Tool as was shown on my picture below.

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected area on the new layer. After that move this layer above all the layers and change layer mode to Soft Light for it.

Then make some brightness and contrast corrections with Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.

Now you should have something like this:

After that select the Eraser Tool again and remove clear borders of this texture.

Use the Burn Tool (Brush: 40px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 30%) one more time to make features more clearly.

On this step we are done! Hope, this tutorial was useful for you.

Credit For :http://www.photoshopstar.com

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Realistic View Water Reflection

Here I’m going to learn how to easily add a realistic water reflection to your picture.

Here is the photo that I’ll be working with throughout this tutorial:

Also you can use your own pictures or find some appropriate pictures thru the Google Images. Ok, now I will explain you how to make the right reflection. In the beginning you should select the part of image what is above the water, then duplicate it and flip vertical. Then we will process copied part of image with some filters to get realistic view water reflection. Ok, using the Polygonal Lasso Tool create selection as was shown on my picture, which you can see below:

After that press Ctrl+J to copy selected part of image on the new layer. After that use Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical to flip new copied layer vertical and move it down as on picture below.

As you can see the shoreline is rough, that’s why we need to do some correction with it. Use the Eraser Tool to correct it a little bit. But pay your attention that we have some small island from the right side. Don’t remove it from the copied layer.

Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select this island and press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut selected part of image on the new layer.

Now, move it a little bit down and apply Edit > Transform > Warp.

Merge this layer with previous again. Before we move to the next step, you need to make displacement map to create the water ripple effect. So, create a new document with the same size. Press D to reset Foreground and Background colors (Foreground color will be black and Background color will be white). Then fill canvas with white color. After that apply Filter > Sketch > Halftone Pattern:

Now you have something like this:

Save this document as Lines.psd and close it. Go back to our main document and select current layer with Select > Load Selection. After that apply Filter > Distort > Ripple:

You can see the result on the picture below:

Then apply Filter > Distort > Displace:

Click OK in the top right corner of the dialog box, and Photoshop will ask you which file you want to use as your displacement map. Choose the file that you just saved a moment ago (Lines.psd).

Now, press Ctrl+T to reduce the height of our reflection and press Enter.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D. After that to make reflection at the bottom of the picture more transparent apply Quick Mask Mode with gradient as below:

Then go back to Standard Mode. Now we have some selected area, press Delete to clear image in it.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and set up layer opacity to 50%. After that apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur with similar settings to these:

The result should be next:

And the last one thing that we should add is ripples. For this effect create a new layer and add a few brush strokes with Brush Tool using white color.

After that set up foreground color as #022149 and add more brush strokes on the same layer with this color.

After that apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:

Change layer mode to Soft Light and you will get the final result:

On the picture below you can see the final result! I’m sorry but I’m done for now. Please feel free to experiment and you will get the best results!

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How to Add Inscription to the Stone Wall

One more interesting tutorial about how to put some text on the stone and bring it volume form.

Make a new document with the resolution 600×450 for this tutorial. Select some appropriate colors, for example #ae8c42 and fill the canvas with it.

After that apply Filter > Noise Add Noise with next presets:

Now we have effect like this:

After that apply Filter > Texture > Texturizer:

The relief should be next:

Now apply another one Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen:

Time to find appropriate texture to add to the background. Find and copy onto your canvas stone texture. You can find it using Google Images or feel free to use this texture.

Then mess with the layer mode & opacity/fill. I tried Hard Light with opacity of 70%.

Move to the next step. Merge all layers in one and add some shadow to the background. You can do this by using Filter > Render > Lighting Effects with similar settings to these:

See the difference now?

We got nice result isn’t it? Now start with creating the text. Get out the Horizontal Type Tool and add the text whatever you want with color of #867f60:

In the above image I’ve used Trajan Pro (Bold, 50pt, Crisp) as my font of choice. If you don’t have it, feel free to use another one. Then change layer mode to Multiply.

After that duplicate this text layer with Ctrl+J and set up fill opacity to 0% for this layer. Then apply Bevel and Emboss layer style.

See the result below:

Now, create a new one layer above and merge it with previous to get all layer styles in one layer. Then select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush about 200 pixels and set up opacity for this brush about 40%, after that make some cleaning work with lighting effects.

Ok, we are done with this tutorial. I am happy with the result, hope you to!

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