Update (September 12, 2024): The Refine tool has moved to a new location. With the selection still active, and the Magic Wand tool as your active tool (W), right-click on the selection and choose “Select and Mask”. Select the “Refine Edge Brush Tool” from the left toolbar or by pressing R.
Basically this allows you to tweak your edge to better reflect the substance being cut out (fur has different opacities in places that a hard edge won’t create properly). My settings are below, but an important part of the refine edge is the brush associated with it. With the Refine Edge box still up you can brush around your selection in the work area. This will automatically try and figure out whats a part of your object and the intended selection and what isn’t and add it to your selection. It’s much easier to understand when you use it so I encourage you to play with it a bit before moving forward. This is a very important tool for extracting things like hair. Once you’re happy with the result click on OK and the selection will be applied. You’ll still have marching ants and the rest of your image will still be visible but once you mask out the layer (Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All) your selection will show. Remember to mask out with the mask selected (The white box to the right of the layer thumbnail). From here we can use a similar technique on the pieces of clothing to bring them in nicely.
Step 5
Here we can bring in the clothing. Remember to use Masks so you can make any adjustments later. Mask and place them on your model. Keep in mind things like fur around the collar and ears hanging down over or behind the clothing. Adding little pieces of depth can help add to the realism of the final product.
Step 6
From here we can start adding shadows, these are really what will make this image pop and give it a believable feel. First let’s make a hard shadow under the ears and collar as if the main light was coming from the top right. If you place your cursor over the mask for the dog and hold Ctrl or Cmd when you click on it it will select the mask. Bring in a new layer under the animal but above the clothing called “Hard Shadow”. With the Layer “Hard Shadow” active and the Subjects mask as the selection, go to Selection > Transform Selection and move it down and to the left by just a little bit. Hit enter and use a nice fluffy brush at about 10% opacity to draw in a little shadow. No need to get too harsh here just enough to define the edge. Then deselect that (Select > Deselect) and bring in a new layer above “Hard Shadow” and call it “Soft Shadow”. Here we’ll use abut the same brush to draw in a fluffier shadow following the same line as the last one but without the hard edge. Let the Hard Shadow define the edge and the soft shadow gives some depth.
27 responses to “How to Create a Human Portrait of a Dog in Photoshop”
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I got to the refine edge and when the selection is still active and Magic wand tool on. I right click but do not see refine edge. help
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The refine edge tool was moved in newer versions of Photoshop. I’ll update the instructions to reflect this change.
1. Select the Magic Wand tool (w).
2. Right-click on the selection and choose “Select and Mask” (If it’s grayed out, make sure you have the layer selected).
3. Select the “Refine Edge Brush Tool” from the left toolbar, or press R.
4. Brush over the areas to refine then click the OK button.Video of where it is: https://imgur.com/a/SvCbWWU
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ima turn this project into a csgo texture and obliterate it
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Amoooogus SUs
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do yo guys play fortnite chapter 3?
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I’m sorry but many of these tutorials are so lame.
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Peter Smith Agree. I think is time to get out of this page
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First I want to say I have no connection to this site… I just use it like thousands of others. I just had to say “Peter Smith you need to get a life”. These tutorials are from talented people. If you don’t like a site DON’T USE IT. I am sorry that you are so unhappy with your own life that you need to put other people down. I owned my own “very successful” 10 person marketing design firm for over 30 years. I know good design… and these tutorials are not lame. I may not use the tutorials step by step… but I always take away some technique I can use elsewhere. Social media has created an avenue for people like you to post comments “while sitting in your Mom’s basement” that somehow make you feel superior. NOTE: don’t bother sending back some nasty “made up” response to this comment… as I won’t read it. Instead I will use my time enjoying life and expanding my knowledge. Why don’t you create your own tutorial site and let people write you nasty comments. My guess is that you do not have the ambition to do something that helps make other people grateful. I am sure your comment back to me would be “I am just too busy creating great art” to create a site… but I could. If that was true… why try to tear down someone else’s work. Go do your own thing and leave the people behind “Photoshop Tutorials” alone!
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wanna Youtube Tutorials bro…its not easy for me ..?
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Your Photoshop Tutorial is so helpful..and the dog is looking so nice…
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Your Human portrait tutorial and the dog is so nice.I hope anyone learn it easily.Thanks for share an informative tutorial..
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Hilarious! This effect would be good for any dog lover and I am sure they would love to see it on their wall as art.
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Wow! This would be worth a lot to me
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LOL awesome! My mom would love to see an image like this.
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I love the results. great work
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This is awesome! And I have friend who is absolutely nuts for her little pup. This would make a great gift for her! Thanks for providing the steps. :)
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Oh, how funny! And something that would be perfect for my dad. Just would have to figure out which dog to do, either the English Bulldog or Boston Terrier.
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Hey, it’s really a funny and helpful tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
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The dog link doesn’t work :(
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who cares
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It doesn’t look “real”
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Best friend?
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This would be what you’d look like if u were a dog Gill Gonzales bahaahaa with your hat
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