by - Gearlock
In this tutorial, I'll just give you some basic about adding textures to skin and some basic tips.
Image courtesy of Tinderstock.
1) Ok, first you gotta get you picture (pic.1.)
Now , go to Image - Adjustments - Brightness/Contrast and then higher the contrast to +35. Mess around with the setting to your liking or to get something close to (pic.2.)
2) The saturation is too high so to lower it down with to hue/saturation to your liking
or get it close to (pic.3.) Add some depth to your image (Image>Adjustments-curves
and make some changes until you like it.
3) Textures time! Choose a texutre you like on a seperate layer, change the blending mode
to Multiply then resize and distort your texture to your taste. In this case
I just re-sized it to 50% or 60% from it's actual size.
I also applied same setting as step 3
(curves, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation)
I also desaturated the girl picture, to give a better look and to make the eyes stand out more. To finish things up I picked up an old photo frame picture and set it on overlay mode.
Well, you just read the basic
Now its time to you to use your imagination, like adding more textures, images for a perfect collage. Here's some things of what I usually do:
When choosing textures, you have to see what do you want from that texture, if it's
a) the colors of it or b) the "shapes" of it (like crackings, relief, and stuff).
When choosing a) watch out when you high up the contrast, try not making the saturation too high, so it wont look much realistic.
When choosing b) remember to make the saturation low and the contrast high. Plus, always use the burn tool on the darker areas and on the shadows to give more depth.This is very important step, and its applied either to (a) or (b). I personally like color contrast a lot. A good hint is to desaturate most part of your piece and leave only a few things with color. This works well specially on eye manupulation. Try to be original don't stick to just adding textures...it will end up too random. Try adding objects or even rendering of some 3d shapes mix them up.
This is a very common one, I call it continuity problem... Look at this manipulation. There's a problem with it, do you know where it is? look at the image on the left where I drew the And thats not physicaly correct. Solution: do (on the tecture layer) some burning on the contours of the fingers. Or you can just erase the crackings on the fingers area :)
So, there you go...I hope you find this somehow usefull, I know I'm not very organized, but I hope you dont get too confused...I just tried to give you some basics and also give some usefull tips...the walkthrough is just to help illustrating it :) and sorry for the bad english.