Photoshop Tutorials

Learn how to draw this beautiful drawing of a yolk in an egg shell. This extremely detailed tutorial will show you how to create a realistic broken egg shell and add reflections and shadows to create the curvature of the yolk. A high resolution PSD is included with this tutorial.

Preview of Final Results

Amazing Broken Egg and Yolk Photoshop Tutorial

• Program: Adobe Photoshop CS4
• Difficulty: Medium
• Completion Time: 1-2 Hours

Step 1

First of all, we have to create some egg. The easiest way is to download the file (http://photoshoptutorials.ws/downloads/psd/Egg.zip ) which is the source of my previous tutorial. There you can delete all the layers except the ‘shadow’, ‘bg’ and the hidden copy of our egg named ‘egg copy 2’. And this will be our starting point. If you want to train yourself, you can just follow the steps from my previous tutorial (link) and made up the egg. The reason I’m using this egg is that I want to leave a bit of orange color on the eggshell and also some texture. I will not care about shadows and will cast them later. So for now we have something like this:

Step 2

We have to play with some adjustment layers to make our egg almost white. The reason of changing color is a contrast. Background is orange, and yolk also. We must do something that will grab attention. Something that will center the point of view and separate things.

In the Layers window click the icon shown below and choose Levels.

In the adjustment windows type these settings: 0 – 3,31 – 182.

Step 3

For sure we need some mask for we have applied our adjustment globally. Yet there is a better way for this- we will use clipping mask. To do a clipping mask move the cursor between layers in layer’s window. Hold alt, and when cursor will change, left-click.

Now get back to the Step 2, but instead of Levels, choose Brightness/Contrast. Apply it also as a clipping layer, but it must be below Levels adjustment layer. This is important so stick to the layers hierarchy. The settings we are using:

And that’s how our egg looks like: