Strange Portrait in Photoshop

CATEGORIES: Photoshop, Tutorials | Dave Cross | January 30, 2009

In this tutorial Dave Cross experiments with the color range command and goes to work on a portrait to create some creative variations of the image.

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this is a pretty cool tutorial!!!

Comment by scott webb | January 31, 2009 @ 7:39 am

Thanks, Dave! Liked the integration with Illustrator, but frankly just enjoyed watching how you use the mouse and hearing key commands to get more done faster. I’d forgotten about Command-J to duplicate, didn’t know about the presets for Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows in the color range selection, and never realized I could drag through layers to hide them (was always clicking one at a time). Much appreciated.

~benc

Comment by ben capozzi | January 31, 2009 @ 10:07 pm

Nice ideas

Comment by khaled | February 1, 2009 @ 3:09 pm

All f a sudden, I can’t get the video tutorials on this site and also on the Planet Photoshop site to play. Have been watching them for years, but now I can’t even get the ones that I was able to watch last week to play. Using a Mac OS 10.5.6 and Safari. Have also gone to the Adobe site and did a re-install of the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

Help

Comment by Allan Sicks | February 2, 2009 @ 5:36 pm

amazing.. u have sorted out my big problem
thanks

Comment by uma | February 3, 2009 @ 8:54 am

I had the same problem with my Flash Player. When I updated my system software, Flash would only work on certain things in Safari.

Resolved it by using FIREFOX. Don’t know why, but it works.

Comment by Linda | February 3, 2009 @ 2:22 pm

I don’t have illustrator but managed to follow the photoshop bits to create this image. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dereksbeard/3249006470/

Comment by Derek Smith | February 4, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

Awesome tutorial there! Inspiring, to the point, full of handy tips and well-narrated. This will fuel me for the next few hours. Thanks!

Comment by Stuart Marshall | February 7, 2009 @ 4:05 pm

thnks

Comment by Cliptoematic designs | February 8, 2009 @ 9:32 pm

Very very cool Dave!

Comment by kitty pie | March 5, 2009 @ 5:41 pm

great tut:) many Thanks

Comment by matt | March 30, 2009 @ 4:27 am

I remember you from the lessons in Photoshop Elements . I think you are the greatest. I like everything that you teach.

Comment by pat | April 6, 2009 @ 10:10 am

Hi – just watched this tutorial and loved it but there is a much simpler way > sorry!
Create a selection > in the Paths palette at the bottom select button Make work path from selection > this creates a path of your selection (same as Live trace in illus) > then Edit > Define custom shape. simple!! love it, will make use of this handy new skill.

Comment by milibeke | April 18, 2009 @ 1:04 am