Today, I’m going to teach you how to design an abstract artwork using photoshop. Here is what are we going to do on this post:
Assets
- Dimension Brushes
- Grunge II Texture Pack
- tree IV
- May Queen – S – 8
- hair brushes 2 -wispy-
- Star Brushes Volume 1
- Apple Stock II
Step 1
Lets start with creating a new document from photoshop. Bring grunge texture to your newly created file re-size it and position it. I used light blue one and and play with curves. Don’t forget to use adjustment mask because we are going to use original texture again.
Step 2
Next duplicate grunge texture and set blending mode of this layer to multiply.
Step 3
Next open up the May Queen and mask out the background. I also erase some of her hair because i wanted to change her a little bit.
Step 4
Then i bring up the tree image and mask out background again. Resize and position it behind May Queen.
Step 5
Next mask out unwanted parts of apple image. And again add an adjustment layer for changing its brightness and contrast.
Step 6
Next we will use some brushes to extend our composition.
Step 7
I used my hair brushes to change her hair a little bit. Trick for hair is applying its in black color and duplicating it. If you want to add some highlights just paint over hair on a new layer a change this layers blending mode to overlay. Then i used star brushes with white color and decrease layer opacity to %90.
Step 8
I especially love this effect. We are going to add some glow effect to our composition. It is pretty simple to do. Just pick a color, paint with a rounded soft brush and set layer blending mode to overlay. Of course don’t forget to move your painted layer to back of your object. I picked yellow color for May Queen, dark blue for tree and a crimson red for apple. Here is what i get;
Step 9
We are almost finished. Lastly we will add a photo filter to warm our image a little bit.
We are done. I hope you enjoy this tutorial.
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One Comment
Dorothy Youst
I enjoyed trying this tutorial, I m 85 yrs old and am learning new things all the time. I didn’t know how to download the brushes but went to a help page and found out ! Thank you for this tutorial it helped me very much ! Dorothy