Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Simple mystical effect on your photo

Last week, one of my friend asking me how to create the mystical effects to one of my picture. Now, i want to share this simple tutorial in Photoshop.
I hope this could be your refferences when editing your pictures. Some of this text will be translate in Indonesian language to help my friend from Indonesia to read it

tutor1.jpg

Step 1.
Fix your original photo histogram by using image adjustment level and curve
(Perbaiki histogram foto dengan adjustment level dan curve)

hb_asli.jpg

Step 2.
Use Unsharp Mask tools to more sharpen your photo, if your photo not to sharp.
In this photo, i used the amount 100 and radius 1px
(Gunakan filter-sharpen, unsharp mask untuk mempertajam foto apabila kurang tajam, dengan amount 100 dan radius 1px)

Step 3.
Create duplicate layer from background and rename as cloud, then use filter-render-clouds to create smoke effect to the photo
(Gunakan filter-render-clouds untuk memberikan efek asap pada foto)

Step 4.
Coloring the smoke with yellow to give warm effect to the smoke, I used color balance on image adjustment on this step
(Buat warna asap yang agak kekuningan dengan mengubah color balances ini untuk membuat suasana hangat dalam kabut)

hb_cloud.jpg

Step 5.
Change the Cloud layer Opacity to 81% and Fill to 51%
(Ubah opacity layer cloud menjadi 81% dan fill nya menjadi 51%)

Step 6.

Use your creativity in deleting some smoke area on your photo
(Hapus asap pada beberapa bagian foto sesuai kreasi anda)

hb_cloud_edit.jpg

Step 7.
Create enother duplicate layer from background and name it Blur. Then use filter-blur-gaussian blur with 50px
(Duplicate lagi layer background dan beri nama blur, lakukanlah filter-blur-gaussian blur dengan 50px)

hb_blur.jpg

Step 8.
Change the blending option of Blur layer to Hard light. This will give more contrast light to your photo
(Kemudian ubah blending layernya menjadi Hard light untuk menambahkan kontras cahaya pada foto anda)

hb_jadi.jpg
Finish

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