Creative Adding Label to the Skin

Here is useful tutorial where I’m gonna show you how to add the label to the human skin in Photoshop. In this tutorial I will be using this stock photo of the man.

Firstly, you should find a nice stock photo to work with. As I mentioned above, I used a photo of the young man, if you want you can download it and get to work. Open up it and press Ctrl+J to duplicate layer. After that move to the lower layer and desaturate it with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. Then go back to the copied layer and correct the color balance using Image > Adjustments > Levels. Set up following presets:

Then change layer opacity to 70%.

Now, duplicate this layer with previous and duplicate (Ctrl+J) new layer again. After that apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:

Then mess with the layer mode & opacity/fill. I tried Overlay with opacity of 45%.

See the difference now? Ok, after that select the Sharpen Tool and increases the sharpness on man face.

I would like to add a contrast more. For this effect use the Burn Tool (Brush: 20 px, Range: Midtones, Exposure: 40%) and add dark spots on the face.

Move to the next step. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection as on my picture below and fill it with black color.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and apply Outer Glow layer style to this layer.

Your picture should look as mine:

Ok, create a new layer, after that select the Brush Tool and a hard round brush about 4 pixels and add a couple of more strokes with dark red (#47091a) color.

Then apply Filter > Blur > Radial Blur:

Ok, mess with the layer mode & opacity/fill one more time. I tried Overlay with opacity of 70%.

Time to add the label! Create a new layer use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create selection as on the picture below and fill it with color of #c0b6ba.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D, then get out the Horizontal Type Tool to write out the text. Use the Arial font and chose font color as #221820 for text lines.

Merge text layers and label layer together and apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise to add a little bit noise to the label.

Hopefully your picture looks something like this:

Ok, after that apply Edit > Transform > Free Transform to rotate label and move it left as on my picture below.

Move to the next step. Select the Burn Tool (Brush: 20 px, Range: Highlights, Exposure: 20%) and add some dark lines to the label.

Looks better now, isn’t it? Time to bring the shadow under the label. Move to the layer under and create another one layer above. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection and fill it with black to transparent gradient.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and use the Blur Tool to add a little blur to the shadow.

And the last one thing that we need to do is to bring sutures to the picture. For this effect select the Brush Tool and a soft round brush about 1 pixel. Make a couple of sutures with black color on the new layer.

Looks not so realistic. But I know how to resolve this problem. Press Ctrl+T and reduce current layer halved.

Duplicate this layer with Ctrl+J and move it below like on my picture. Merge two of these layers in one and set up opacity to 75% for new layer.

Ok, that is it! Looks realistic and very creative as for me. Don’t be afraid to make your own experiments.

Create Your Own Christmas Balls

Create Your Own Christmas Balls

Here I’ll show you how to make funny colorful Christmas balls using Photoshop techniques.

First of all, you should create a new document about 500×500 pixels and fill it with white color. After that select the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create selection as on my picture below. Fill selected area with color of #580001 on the new layer.

Ok, use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create another one selection and fill it with the same color.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D. Now, time to bring some ornament to the ball. I used this ornament or you can use another one which you want. Open up this file and copy ornament to the main canvas. After that apply the Color Overlay layer style to the layer with ornament.

You can mix current picture a couple of times. The result should be next:

Select the ball shape (Ctrl + left click the Layer Thumbnail in the Layers Palette) and press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert selection, after that press Delete to clear selected area.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and continue to create ball’s texture. Create a new layer and fill it with black color. After that apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with following presets:

Change layer opacity to Screen now and use Ctr+T to reduce the noise texture.

Now, we need to clear area out the ball again. Select the ball shape one more time (Ctrl + left click the Layer Thumbnail in the Layers Palette) and press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert selection, after that press Delete to clear selected area.

Deselect area with Select > Deselect. After that use the Sharpen Tool to sharpen noise layer.

Now, merge all layers except background layer in one. After that use Select > Load Selection to select ball again and apply Filter > Distort > Spherize to make the ball volume:

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and use the Sharpen Tool again to sharpen centre of the ball a little bit more.

Time to add glares. Use the Dodge Tool (Brush: 100px, Range: Highlights: Exposure: 50%) to create bright spot on the ball as on my picture you can see below.

Create another one glare in the same way.

Then select the Burn Tool (Brush: 100px, Range: Shadows: Exposure: 20%) to add the dark glare.

Now, create a new layer and use the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create round selection. Fill it with white color.

Remove selection using Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

See the result below.

Merge this layer with previous. Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection like mine and use the Dodge Tool again to make little dodge-work.

Ok, remove selection with Select > Deselect. Time to add the top to our ball. How to do this? In the beginning create new layer above, then select Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection as mine and fill it with color of #a09c95.

Deselect current layer (Ctrl+D). Now, use the Dodge Tool (Brush: 45px, Range: Highlights: Exposure: 50%) to add a little glare to the top.

Merge current layer with previous and use Ctrl+T to reduce the ball about 20%.

And the last one thing left. Select the Line Tool and set foreground color as #2f1e00. Draw two lines about 1 pixel as on my picture below.

Ok, we are done for now! I added two different colors balls more. Please don’t be afraid to experiment with different colors and techniques.