Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Poster Design with Light Effects

For this tutorial, I come up with a concept of having a poster design of an ordinary photo and with some light effects. I have here a photo of Ms. Kim Chiu, actress here in Philippines to be our model.>>>>> *credits: Photos are from their respective owners. SO DON'T SUE ME. <<<<< -denztriker

Open the image on Photoshop.

Next step is to select the clothes portion. By using this step, we will be using the pen tool or the lasso tool. (I used the polygonal tool due to time constraints).

Then right click on the mask area, select on  layer via copy.

Then go to Filter>>> Distort>>> Glass. Put the levels of the following: Distortion: 12, Smoothness: 3, Texture: Frosted, Scaling: 140. Then click OK.

Next, is go back to the background layer, which is the layer with the original image, select the hair using pen tool of the lasso tool. We have here a clean background so I used the polygonal lasso tool.

Then Layer via copy.

Go to Filter>>> Brush Strokes>>> Ocean Ripple. Set the Ripple Size to 9 and Ripple Magnitude to 7.

Here is the result of the Ocean Ripple effect on the hair. You can see that there are some parts of the hair that was messy. Particularly on the part besides the forehead.

So we need to delete those parts. Use the eraser tool with the appropriate diameter and hardness like the example below. Delete the parts that were messy.

This was the result after deleting some parts of the ocean rippled hair.

Then create a new layer, fill it with black. Locate the new layer above all the layers.

Go to Filter>>> Render>>> Lens Flare. In this case, we adjust the brightness to 132% and the lens Type to 50-300mm Zoom. We locate the lens Upper left corner like the example image below.

Then set the layer blending mode to Hue. And this was the result.

Duplicate the layer with lens flare effect and switch the layer blending mode to the one was currently copied to Color Dodge.

Add some text to our canvas to look like a poster. Click on text tool and I type this “kim chiu”, the actress’ name with the color pink.

Adding some shadows to the text. Go to Layer>>> Layer Style>>> Drop Shadow. Set the blend mode to Multiply, Color: black, Opacity: 80%, Angle: 50 degrees, Distance: 10px, Spread: 0px, size: 16px. Then click on OK.

Then click on Stroke. Set the size to 3px, Position: outside, Blend mode: Darken, Opacity: 60%, Fill type: Color, Color: Yellow. Click OK.

And this was the result of this tutorial. Hope you like it. And Ms. Kim Chiu does =)