Photoshop Tutorial | How to make a Tumblr Style Graphic / Edit

 How to make a Tumblr Style Graphic / Edit

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These are actually surprisingly easy and don't consume much time or thinking (meaning, yes they are pretty mindless to be honest) 

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How to make something like this:

(Haesica) SNSD's Jessica + Super Junior's Donghae

Lets begin:

I'm going to start with a png of Uee (of After School)

the background of this picture has already been removed which makes editing a lot easier.

• File > New or CTRL- N                                                                                                    and make a new file with the width of 537 and the height of 360                                        Copy and paste your picture onto the new document and delete the white background.
• Now, using the Lasso tool (on the skinny left panel)                                                               cut off the part of the body you don't want to use

• This is what i now have

its a slanted cut, which i purposely intended. ( you should aim for an uneven cut opposed to a straight one to give your overall image more depth)

• Then add a background. I think nature backgrounds work really well for these type of edits so i tend to stick with them.
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Here is mine after copy & pasting the background behind the image:

• Now i'm going to play with the coloring on the girl's layer (Uee's) because the colors of her and the background clash

• Image > Adjustments > Curves

(Channel RBG) Output: 160 Input: 123

This will make Uee lighter and blend into the background.

The difference is subtle, but in the end makes a difference.

• Now copy & paste this ON TOP of the other two layers

Set its mode to multiply 

• I have this
  

Copy & Paste this new black texture ON TOP of all the layers

set its mode to lighter color

Copy & Paste this other texture ON TOP of only the background layer NOT your person's layer

Set its mode to color burn

This is what mine looks like now.

You can pretty much just finish here, but i'm going to make a few final tweaks.

Such as lowering the saturation of the background layer until it has more of a grey hue.

Image > Adjustments > Hue & Saturation

Saturation: -63

And then i'm going to paste premade text ON TOP of all the layers

But its hard to read the text, so i'm going to brighten Uee's layer with curves.

Image > Adjustments > Curves

Output: 66 Input: 0

Then i'm going to double click Uee's layer on the right layers panel to open the layer style window. 

On the left side of the new window, check "drop shadow"  to give the layer a more pop out effect.

Flatten everything.

Extras:

• Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen

• Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient

(for this case you could add a light blue gradient and lower its opacity, rasterize, and erase around the middle.)

• You can always add extra textures and coloring if you'd like to polish your image.

I'm not going to in this case, because i'll just keep it simple

Here is the final result: