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Naughty or Nice? Creating an Illustration with Personality in Photoshop
Dateline: December 21, 2005
Version: Photoshop CS
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Starting with a studio shot of a model,
London-based illustrator Matt Herring opened the image in Photoshop and
changed the mode to Grayscale to make
preparations for the angel side of the image.
He duplicated the image six times, and saved
each copy as a separate document. Herring
then made Levels adjustments to each duplicate.
By adjusting the midtones in Levels, he
revealed more detail by making lighter duplicates
or creating darker silhouettes. On
some duplicates, he chose Filter > Pixelate >
Color Halftone and set the Max. Radius to 5
and the Channel Screen Angles to 45 degrees
for a small halftone pattern.
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Herring next changed the mode of each duplicate
to Duotone, selected yellows and creams
for the darkest Grayscale duplicates’ ink colors,
and chose oranges and reds for the lighter, more
detailed duplicates’ ink colors. Each duotone
image was then pasted into a new CMYK document
with the silhouetted copies at the bottom
of the layer stack, the more detailed duplicates
in the middle, and the halftone patterned images
at the top. Herring then changed each layer’s
blending mode to Multiply and added a new blank
layer to paint blue into the model’s eyes. Finally,
he merged all the layers and selected Image >
Adjustments > Posterize set to 9.
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For the devil side of the
image, Herring repeated much
of the same process of creating
separate documents for the
duotone duplicates, but used
magentas and reds as the ink
colors instead. He then added
black-and-white duplicate layers
to which he made Levels and
Brightness/Contrast adjustments
to bring out more shadow and
highlight detail, and to make the
overall devil side more contrasty
than the angel side.
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Herring added details such as the red eyes,
eye shadow, beauty mark, blush, eyebrow pencil,
and eyeliner to the model by using the Lasso tool
to make heavily feathered selections and choosing
Edit > Fill to add color. For lipstick, he went
back to the original photo to cut out the model’s
lips, pasted it as a new layer, and added a Hue/
Saturation adjustment layer to increase the red.
To turn the model’s hair red, he used one of the
silhouette layers to outline her hair with the Lasso
tool and make it a selection, then filled it with a
solid red. He then brought out the detail by layering
a black-and-white duplicate set to Multiply
over it.
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To bring the two images together, Herring
flattened each document and brought them
together into a new document on separate
layers. For drop shadows of the model, he
made two duplicates from the devil image,
filled each with black, adjusted the Opacity
of each of these layers to 10% and 20%,
applied a 6-pixel Gaussian Blur, and placed
them below the angel and devil images. He
then added layer masks to each layer and
concealed the other half of the image using
the Rectangular Marquee tool and Edit > Fill
to create clean lines through the middle and
separate the sides of the model.
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The final image is shown at left (click to enlarge).
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