Photoshop Tutorials

Group - Girl - Continues

In the Girl Group , we have 2 layers 1. "displaced" girl 2. hidden copy of the original girl. If you don't have this then go back and recheck. No point going further and later cribbing that you couldn't get the output. Unhide this copied layer,name it 'overlay' and make another copy. Hide this 'another copy' for now. So far so good? Select 'overlay'. Ctrl+Click on thumbnail of 'displaced' girl then click on the button at the bottom saying 'add vector mask'. Now with the splatter brush remove some of the hair and with a soft brush, some of the arms. Change the blending mode to Overlay and set opacity to 50%.

Now in the Girl Group we have 3 layers 1.'displaced' girl. 2.'overlay' girl 3.hidden copy of original girl. Unhide this hidden copy name it 'smoothing' and make another copy. Hide the 'another copy' for now. This 3rd girl layer is just to smooth things up. Change the opacity to 50%, add a vector mask and paint it black so everything's hidden. Now with a soft white brush paint over the layer mask to reveal certain parts as shown below.

Now in the Girl Group we have 4 layers 1.'displaced' girl. 2.'overlay' girl 3.'smoothing' girl 4.hidden copy of original girl. Unhide this hidden copy, name it 'cutout' and do not make any more copies :D ( Yeah, i know, thank god) Move it to the right side of the canvas and enlarge it such that the head occupies a significant position .

Make Blend Mode : Multiply Opacity : 55% Go to Filter > Artistic > Cutout. Use these settings:

• Levels: 3
• Simplicity: 4
• Fidelity: 3

Make a layer mask and with the 'splat of paint' brush remove most of the girl leaving the head.

Now make a new layer on top with opacity set to 15%. Paint the part over the girls legs pink. This is just to blend it with our background pink.

Here's the image you should have so far. Move all the 4 "girl layers" + this pink layer into a group "Girl". Ignore this point if you setup the empty groups in the beginning. This brings us to the end of the Girl element (Pheww~!)