Elemental
Tutorial Details:
- Program: Photoshop
- Version: CS2, CS3 + CS4
- Difficulty: Mod/high
- Estimated Completion Time: 1-2 hours
This tutorial is more of a walk through of the PSD and expects you to know where the photoshop tools are and what they do!
Final Design:
Please note the final design is bigger than the images shown, they have be resized to fit and load on the web.
Step 1:
The first step is to simply create a new document (1000x800) and fill the background layer a grey colour (#353232).
Step 2:
Open up a texture and then place it over your background. The texture used was transparent so it was left on normal but you might need to change the mode to "overlay" or "screen" depending on your texture.
Step 3:
Open up a grid/design plans texture and set it to MULTIPLY at 67%.
Step 4:
Open up a C4D render and place it into your document. Make sure it is fairly big and intresting, as all the details are placed onto this image.
Step 5:
Using the shape tool create some circles and lines and place behind the C4D render. Leave these on 100% opacity.
Step 6:
Add some more shapes but this time fill them and add gradients. Merge these layers into one once you are finished.
Step 7:
Simply using a soft brush at around 70-200 pixels do some dots in various different bright colours. Leave on normal at 100% opacity.
Step 8:
Add some text coming off the C4D. (Its hard to see in the small picture but click here to see the large version)
Step 9:
Add your pre-rendered stock image.
Step 10:
Add some leaves and greenery to the image. Make sure it flows well with the image.
Step 11:
Add in some fire. If using stock images set to screen and then erase parts to mould it around the person.
Step 12:
Finish off by adding some more fire and then some water at the arm.
Step 13:
Add some more text. The text here has been duplicated and moved a few pixels left and then turned yellow to give it a 3D effect.
Step 14:
Create a new layer (hit "d" on your keybaord to reset colours) and then using the radial gradient tool make it so the white is over the C4D + dancer render.
Then turn this layer to soft light at around 36% opacity.
Step 15:
Some final brightness and contrast layers were added, but these only change the piece very sutally.
Step 16:
Finally apply the image and then sharpen. You are then done!
