Adding an Artist’s Touch to Your Photographs – Psd Premium Tutorial
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Adding an Artist’s Touch to Your Photographs – Psd Premium Tutorial

on May 25th 2010 with 16 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to improve your photo manipulation skills, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!

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As an artist, I love working with great imagery, especially when the project involves collaborating with talented photographers and art directors. Starting out with a great, well-lit shot makes my job much easier. But every now and then the project involves taking something more ordinary and turning it into something special.

While it can be more of a challenge to create something special from an ordinary shot, the artist side of me loves that challenge. And it was while working on one such project that I got the idea for creating this tutorial. In this tutorial we’ll go through the steps I used to turn the shot below to the one you see above. Along the way you’ll learn about manipulating depth of field, creating lighting effects that give the image a little bit of ‘bling’, how to create a split toning color effect and finally how to apply a texture and color treatment to the image to give it a cool, vintage look.

By the end you’ll see some new ways of working that you can vary and apply to your images adding that special touch of your own. Let’s get started!

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Dennis Dunbar is a Digital Artist with extensive experience in digital issues. He began compositing images in the darkroom under the tutelage of William Warren, a noted Stock Shooter. After seeing the advantages of working digitally Dennis jumped in with both feet, setting up his own studio in 1991 and soon was working extensively creating finished artwork for movie posters and commercial ads. Dennis also serves on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Chapter of the Advertising Photographers of America where he serves as head of the Digital Committee. He is a founding member of UPDIG and a member of the DISC Committee as well.  

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  • aMs

    where is the sparkle??? looks like typical color adjusting+texture

    • http://terencedevine.com tDevine

      I disagree…. theres a lot going on in that tutorial.

      Look at the original to the finished product, completely different images, with a whole lot more work done then adjusting the color and texture

      • aMs

        this looks exactly like some color adjustments with more accurate masking touch, i could do something like that in 5 minutes without reading the tutorial…

    • http://aevion.net AEVION

      Yeah, it doesn’t look that hard… but maybe we’re missing something

      • http://www.dunbardigital.com Dennis Dunbar
        Author

        The idea behind this tutorial is to share some techniques that can be used to add artistic touches to an image. The inspiration for this came last year when I was working with photographer Bob Stevens on a series of fine art images.

        This tutorial covers not only regular color adjustments and texture overlays, but includes some variations on Burning & Dodging, Depth of Field manipulation, and split toning using the Blend-If Sliders for a Curves Adjustment layer. The image itself is just a way of sharing these concepts.

        What I really hope is that readers will get some new ideas for applying these techniques and find ways they’ll want apply them in their own work. So read through the tutorial and see if something sparks any new ideas for you.

  • http://ds.laroouse.com esranull

    very good post thanks a lot

    • Justin

      do you ever NOT like a post. you say the same thing on EVERY post here…
      are you a bot?

  • http://psd.tutsplus.com aluae

    Very beautiful
    ‘m Going to try: (

  • http://www.spicygraphic.com/ SpicyGraphic

    Interesting, yet not so interesting

  • http://childesign.deviantart.com/ Childesign

    Nice color :)

  • http://laira.pathseek.info/ Laira

    Really nice tut..very interesting..thanks for this effective post…

  • http://www.scottcorgan.com Scott Corgan

    Love that you secretly called out all who call themselves photographers. It’s an art, not just an expensive camera.

  • http://www.kolour.com Belkiss Obadia

    nice work tut

  • http://www.greasypigstudios.com Arvin Bautista

    I wonder if that vignette isn’t a little too big… There’s about 40 pixels in each direction when it’s at full strength (i.e. it’s as strong as it ever gets)… As such it looks like you’re looking through a peephole. It might’ve been more effective if you just cropped the photo by that much so it’s not so distracting.

    • http://www.dunbardigital.com Dennis Dunbar
      Author

      The point is not about how big the vignette is, it’s about how to create it using the Cloud brush included with the tutorial.

  • http://www.spicygraphic.com SpicyGraphic

    I will try it. I want to see if i can learn something…. Why this is Premium?