Create a Cosmic Love Goddess With Photoshop CS5
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Estimated Completion Time: 3 Hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Photoshop CS5 includes several new features to help improve your workflow. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a cosmic love goddess using some of Photoshop CS5′s new tools including the Refine Edge Feature which really helps to streamline the process of masking and removing objects from their background.
Resources
The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial:
Step 1
Normally, I would ignore this step because it’s quite basic but Photoshop CS5′s new Refine Edge feature is extremely easy to use and can save you a lot of time.
Okay, let’s get started! Open your stock photo. Choose the Quick Selection Tool (W), it may be hidden under the Magic Wand Tool. Depending on your photo’s resolution, choose a suitable brush size, then paint over the parts you don’t need as shown below.
With selection still activated, click Refine Edge on the Option bar. When the Refine Edge dialog box comes appears, choose View: On Layer (Hotkey: L). Use the settings below:
- Edge Detection: Check Radius, Radius: 6px
- Smooth: 20
- Constrast: 20%
- Shift Edge: +20%
- Check Decontaminate Colors: 70% for Amount.
Don’t click OK! With the Refine Edge dialog box still open, click "Refine Radius Tool (E) expand detection area" on the left side. Then draw over the cutting edges, do this a few times to get a desired result.
Save this as a PSD file or a PNG with a transparent background. We will need this later on.
Step 2
Open Sky 1. Go to Image > Adjustments > Curves:
Place Sky 2 into the document and scale it to fit. Position on top of the background layer and set blending mode to Overlay.
Now place the Wave photo. Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical. Position "wave" layer between the two cloud layers. Change blending mode to Multiply.
Step 3
Now place the PSD/PNG model photo from Step 1 into your working document. Put her on the top layer (name it Model). Cmd + T to resize her and rotate as shown below.
Place the Wings photo into your working document. Resize, rotate, then Duplicate the "wings" layer. Put one below the Model layer and one above.
With the "Wings front" layer still activated, pick the Eraser Tool (E), with the brush’s hardness set to 100%. Remove the left wing to reveal model’s body. Don’t worry, we already have a backup wing underneath.
Step 4
Place the Helmet image into the working document, name it "Helmet" and put it on the top layer. Use the Lasso Tool (L) to cut it into 2 parts (back and front) and split it into 2 different layers.
Put the "Helmet back" layer underneath the Model layer and set "Helmet back’s opacity to 60%. Resize and Rotate them as shown below.
Pick the Dodge Tool (O) and use a small soft brush set to Range: Highlights, Exposure: 80%. Shade both helmet front & back until it looks shiny.
Step 5
Place the Necklace photo into your working document on the topmost layer. Resize, rotate, and Distort it until it fits on the model’s neck.
Step 6
Let’s add a bit more hair to the model using our Hair Brush set.
Use the technique we outlined in Step 3 to reveal the model’s arm.
Step 7
Now let’s make some ribbons with the Pen Tool (P). Create a new layer on top of everything, name it Ribbon 1, select the Pen Tool (P), then draw a path like the one shown below (remember to use the Direct Selection Tool to customize your path where needed).
Using the Direct Selection Tool, right click on the path, then choose "Fill path", fill it with any color, then click OK. We will fix it later. Apply a layer style as shown below with a Gradient Overlay.
Note : if your ribbon is not curvy enough, just go to Edit > Transform > Warp, with this tool you can freely create many styles of ribbons. As you can see I created two more ribbons with their Opacity set to 60%.
Step 8
Now let’s create some stars. Choose the Brush Tool (B), select a soft brush 15px, then open the Brush Palette.
Paint stars on the canvas as shown below. Use the scatter and size jitter feature to vary the size and placement of each star.
Set Star layer’s blending mode to Overlay, then select the Eraser Tool using a soft, large brush to erase stars you don’t want.
Step 9
Open the Rose photo, cut out one piece, crop it, then go to Edit > Define Brush > Name it Rose.
Now go back to your working document, select your Brush Tool (B), choose the rose brush that you just created, open the Brush Palette and use the settings below.
Create a new layer and bring it to the front. Choose red, orange as colors, draw pieces of rose that follow her body, after her hand.
Step 10
Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance. Do this three times to make three Color Balance layers. Use the settings below.
Now click on the layer mask thumbnail of the Color Balance 2 layer, select the Eraser Tool using a soft, large brush with the Opacity set to 50% erase the center area of the picture, do the same thing with the Color Balance layer 3 and you are finished!
Final Image
Take a look at the final image below.
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You might want to tag this NSFW guys.
Nice work :) i love the colours!
Really really nice output. But i would prefer to give the wings more visibility.
P.S.: The Rosa-Brush looks definitly cool when its used.
Please fix your unholy-stock resorces links, the profile is closed..
It’s not, you just have to log into deviantart.com. I’ve used his stock many times…
wOw~ i like the model but really dont like the color blance :)
I agree. The image is very well done, but the color balance made it look a little messy, without contrast. But it’s a great tutorial, and I liked the rose brush too.
I think the colours made it look very cosmic, which I assume was the intention as we were made to add stars. Love the colours :)
COOL!!!!, this a really nice tutorial, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
This is a pretty solid tut! I like the composition and effects, but the colors don’t really fit the piece in my opinion. All in all a nice effort!
Guys, please tag NSFW.
Like some others are saying, I think that the “goddess” looks great, but IMO I think that the background looked a lot better before you added particles, and contrast, and color correction. Leave it be at step 6 or 7
The composition looks quite flat at steps 6 & 7, I think the color scheme is great, she is suppose to be a “Love Goddess” after all and the strong amber and pink hues helps sell this.
the stock images are not available :(
The stock provider (Unholy-Stock on DeviantArt) announced two months ago she’d remove her stock because she no longer has time to maintain it. Please, if you write a tut, make sure the stock is still available before posting the tut.
Anyway: I like it!
Her wings make her look like a caterpillar :P
Lol thought the same thing when I saw the pic:
“Goddess? lol. no. Try instect.”
nice tut though, really love the outcome but I have to agree with the rest the colours could be a bit better or just leave them, I like everything else though.
My suggestion is to remove the fabric holding her up, then she would look like she is flying. And also proportion-wise, the size of those strands/locks of hair are way too big.
So you don’t mind nudity in your tutorials/articles? Just wondering, not gonna go all out but it’s a good thing to know, since I cover SexiDesign! I love the stock photography from mjranum I’ve used it many a times for my pieces like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awalkinmyshoes/3729910009/in/set-72157621480899381/
I like the technique for the flower petals, but I agree, the pinkish color acts as kind of a frame or border that seems unnecessary.
Melody, if it’s tastefully done then nudity is acceptable – this is digital art. We certainly don’t want that to become too dominant a direction of the site though. In general we do avoid it in most cases. In this case it fits the subject well. I have rejected proposals because of nudity in some cases – usually if it is more obscene and less attractive. It’s always a judgment call on this topic. Thx.
I agree with Jimbo. The pictures are inappropriate. High school students want to use this sight in design classes, and with these kinds of pictures they have to block it. It would be a shame, because PSD tuts+ was a really big help when I was in design classes.
I’ll certainly keep this in mind. I didn’t realize that high schools would block classic art teaching. There is a tradition of using nudes in painting going far back into history. When they teach art at your school do they censor that out? In college it’s quite common to draw nudes (live in class) to learn about the human body – be able to reproduce the nuances of it in your work. The pose here is quite classic. However, this is only a small fraction of the material on this site. Thx for your feedback and we’ll keep this topic in mind.
Don’t change your mind by comments like this. I don’t think any high school that only has a little bit sense of art would block a site PSDTuts+
If you are offended by this post there is probably sexually something seriously wrong with you.
its cool all high school students in the 21st century have either seen boobs, have boobs, or sucked on boobs.
^^^ WIN!
haha-amen to that man but hell thats not all they do now a days…..so i think the small nude photo isnt that big of a deal….its not calling out porn, but yet a more artistic photograph…..
not a bad tut id say…
Maybe ?
But just please tag this NSFW.
Beautiful image! Some good tips ! thanks:)
very cool ,admiring…..
OMG Amazing Work !!!
Great tut thanks alot
The helmet link is not working :/ 404 page…
Could please fix or post as comment the links for the helmet and the neckless…amazing work!!
awesome photo montage in this great tutorial, you did excellent job. thanks for sharing
Sorry guys for this inconvenience. The helmet and necklace stock photos are not available because unholy-stock closed his account on Deviantart. And since he allows us to freely use his stock photos. I post a backup link here to download those photos : (and credit still goes to unholy-stock)
http://h.imagehost.org/secure/0168/unholy-stock.png
(mirror) http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/4318/unholystock.png
very very nice!!! can`t wait to do it.
Inappropriate? America’s funny. People are allowed to own guns but still have to be protected from nipples…
+1 on the NSFW tag. My virgin eyes!
Agree with Da Buddha. She looks like a caterpillar. Guess that’s why I’m feeling so uncomfortable looking at this work…
the Helmet link is dead
super cool!
this is awesome effect
the space effect is superb. its fast and good looking effect
Nice outcome but I would definatly change the colours.
very nice!!! thanks for share it!!!
amazing! very inspiration to me
whoa! respect! nice blends!
very nice thanks i need to get me this cs5 version.
amazing.
you can teach me brother?
It looked better in Step 9 .
But good tut nonetheless
I was just starting, I thank you very useful help
awesome tutorial Dude.thank you very much for sharing.keep sharing your wonderful works further also…
Is obscene and less attractive when you see it in that way.. the color balance its ok for me… maybe without the pink colors in the border and a little more contrast but i like it because have a Love Goddess style, that´s the purpose of the image so it’s okay.
And the stock works fine you just need to log in with your deviant account.. please to all that dumb ppl read before comment.
Thanks for this nice tut i will give a try later.
It’s so cool.
Long time no see you ^^
look the head in hair, this bad
very amazing.. Some good tips ! thanks
Amazing result, appreciate the share of techniques and methods
This tut is very detailed with great techniques and effects. Good job.
As for the comments…cmon guys, it’s a fantasy scene, she’s a goddess – it’s ok if the color and contrast air more on the side of ‘fantasy’, eh? And NSFW? This is not sexually explicit whatsoever. The nude body has been a work of art throughout recorded history. Go to your local museum and you’ll see a nude body or two, hell you may see one strutting down the street on your way depending on what city you live in.
Good , I love color and ur creative that is very nice, but sometime I have problem with my design follow u, cos it’s long and lots of use tool and style. However I love.
Hi Nhan, I am a fan of your work, Vietnamese too. Hope to see you around.
The Helmet link is broken again… Can someone put it up online and give us another link, please?
Nevermind… It’s here
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/4318/unholystock.png
i like this tutorial, and i did it in cs4, just used the pentool instead
Great Tutorial Thanks
I like!! I stuided art and spent 2 years drawing and painting nudes, oh my virgin eyes were never the same!!lol big difference in art and smut. this be… cant wait to try this with my new Cs5