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Stylized Photos Photoshop Tutorial

January 12, 2007 by Oli · 6 Comments [Post to Twitter][Post to Yahoo Buzz][Post to Digg][Post to Reddit][Post to StumbleUpon]




In this tutorial we are going to take an ordinary photo of a woman and stylize it with a few techniques which give it a more abstract feel and make it a bit more interesting.

This is our starter image :

stylized photo tutorial

First of all, duplicate the original photo layer, then on the menu go to, Image > Adjustment > Channel Mixer and use these settings in the dialogue box :

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Now, on the menu again, go to, Image>Adjustment>Hue/Saturation and use these settings :

stylized photo tutorial 2

You should now have this image :

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Now right click on this layer and take the opacity down to 60% :

stylized photo tutorial 4

Duplicate the original photo layer and drag it above the blue layer, right click it and change the blending mode to ‘linear light’ which should give you this result :

stylized photo tutorial 5

Looking good already, just a couple more steps now to finish off - duplicate this layer and you will get :

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Now its a bit too much, last part is on this last layer, go to, image > adjustments > desaturate and we’re done, your final image will look like this :

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You can also download the psd for this tutorial.

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6 Responses to “Stylized Photos Photoshop Tutorial”
  1. Emelie says:
    January 26, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    This was a really good tutorial !
    I liked the result I got :’D

  2. Anonymous says:
    February 17, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    GAY!! anway nice tut.. LOL

  3. Adam says:
    March 30, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    This only really works if you have a decent image to start with. A lot of images I tried just didn’t work. Still a great effect though!

    Here’s my little addition: If you delete the last layer of the tutorial and then apply a ’surface blur’ (filter - blur - surface blur) and set radius to around 11 and threshold to around 225, you get a really nice effect. Again, you have to have a suitable image in the first place. Darker images tend to look a bit crap.

  4. shaz says:
    September 9, 2007 at 12:57 am

    cool effect looks like the cover from a shakira album. Now thats how they do it could be used to get rid of imperfections to

  5. Exchange links says:
    September 26, 2007 at 6:21 am

    Good effects, i say about the girls :) Thank.

  6. dakota says:
    October 29, 2007 at 8:51 pm

    nobody can see her face but thats okay is a good tutorial =]]

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