Cross Processing Tutorial and Write Up

Cross Processing Write Up

To create the cross processing effect, I firstly opened my image into Photoshop and then clicked on "create new fill or new adjustment layer" icon in the Layers palette and selected "curves". From the channel drop-down box, I selected the colour red and dragged the curve to form a gentle S shape, and this darkened the shadows and brightened the Red channel's highlights. Secondly, I selected the blue channel and dragged the curve's top-right point downwards in order to take some of the blue out of the highlights. I then moved the curves top bottom right up a little bit, blocking out the Blue channel in the shadows. I did the same with the green channel, adding another gentle S curve. This increased the contrast of the picture, and then i focued on the colour balance and not the contrast. I added the curves adjustment layer and set its blending mode to luminosity so it didn't cause any more colour shifts.

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Vampire Tutorial

Vampire Tutorial - Write Up

I edited this woman using Photoshop to make her look like a vampire. Firstly, I used the sponge tool in the tool palette to turn her skin colour a grey/white. I messed around with the tool, turning it to desaturated, and I also messed around with the flow, putting it to about 80%, to get the grey skin tone I wanted. For the lips and the eyes, I used the burn tool. I made sure to create a powerful burn effect I put the range on shadows and the exposure around 50%. This darkened the lips to a blood red shade and I also used it to darken the eyes and create shadows around them.

Next, I coloured her eyes to a dark green/black. To do this, I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool. I selected the eye, added a new adjustment layer, then clicked hue/saturation, which allowed me to darken and change the eye colour to a dark green. To create the vampire teeth, I did the same as I did to edit the eye, but instead of using the magnetic lasso tool to colour them, I clicked the warp button and dragged the teeth down to make the fang shape.

Lastly, I added the blood splatters to the woman's face. By using http://www.brusheezy.com, I found a brush which made blood effects and then downloaded a couple into a Brushes folder in my network space. Secondly, I extracted the file, copied it into the brushes folder, then clicked on the brush tool and loaded the brushes. I finished by adding the blood splatters to the woman's skin and teeth and by darkening the woman's hair to black with the burn tool.

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