How to Create an Emotional Soft-Tone Photo Manipulation

Feb 18, 2025

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This is the result.

Let’s create a Vignette. Create a new layer. Pick a dark color from the background and paint on the edges of the manipulation. Set the layer to Soft Light (Opacity and Fill 80%) and add a bit of Gaussian Blur if you want.

Let’s add a bit of contrast so that Lights and Shadows will be more interesting.

Create a Curve adjustment layer and set the Medium Contrast from the Preset Curves. On the white mask of this layer paint with a black brush on th face of the lady because it would be too dark. Set the layer to Luminosity and the Opacity to 70%.

Final Results

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Authors Comment

With the techiques you learn here you can create your own photomanipulations, wallpapers, book covers or just to make art. I would like to see what you will create following my tutorial, so if you want leave a comment here with a link of your creations! You can see more of my art check here https://braciata.deviantart.com/

– Fabrizio Panattoni

4 responses to “How to Create an Emotional Soft-Tone Photo Manipulation”

hamadah elgaml

June 3, 2020

Cool

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Fanaya

September 18, 2019

nice tutorial,thanks for sharing

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ToniAnn

January 21, 2018

Do you know what steps I take to do this. I have a picture but this will not let me post the pictures

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Maidul Islam

September 22, 2014

This is one awesome collection. One of my favorites I have seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing.

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