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Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to quickly create the look of woodcut portraits from photos.
This is an update of tutorials I've in the past.
This version is quicker and more flexible.
I provided this wood texture that you can download, so you can follow along.
Its link is in my video's description or project files below.
You can find hundreds of fantastic, high-resolution wood textures at Storyblocks.com.
Open a photo of someone or some thing that you'd like to use for this project.
I downloaded this photo and the other again, from Storyblocks.
The first step is to make a selection around our subject, so we can separate it from its background.
For this example, I'll make a selection just around his face,
since that’s what I'd like the portrait to be.
I'll zoom into his face by pressing the "z" key on my keyboard to open the Zoom Tool and
drag it over the face.
I'll open the Quick Selection Tool to make the selection.
If you're using this tool, as well, drag it over your subject's head to select it.
If you want to remove areas outside your subject, press Alt or Option as you drag over those areas.
To check the selection, press "Q" to make it into a quick mask.
Press "Q" again to revert it back into a selection.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut it out and copy it.
To place your subject onto the wood texture, press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag
your subject onto the tab of the wood texture.
Without releasing your mouse or pen, drag it down and release.
Drag it to the middle.
To resize it, open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. If you don't see
the Transform's entire bounding box, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
Go to a corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow,
press and hold Alt or Option + Shift as you drag it in or out.
To re-position it, go inside the bounding box and drag it.
Then, press Enter or Return.
Click the Adjustment layer icon and click "Black White".
Presently, the Adjustment layer is affecting all the layers below it, however, we want
to restrict it to just our subject.
To do this, either click the Clipping Mask icon or press Ctrl + Alt + G on Windows or
Cmd + Option + G on a Mac.
We'll convert our black and white subject into a Smart Object, so we can continue to
add filters to it non-destructively and be able to adjust those filters at any time.
To do this, Shift-click our subject to make it active, as well, and click the icon at the upper, right.
Click "Convert to Smart Object".
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the "Sketch" folder and click "Photocopy".
Make the Detail: 11 and the Darkness:46.
Go to Select and "Color Range".
Choose "Shadows".
Make the Fuzziness: 0% and the Range: 90.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to your subject.
If you want to remove unwanted spots on your subject, first, we'll invert our foreground
and background colors by press "x" on our keyboard.
Now, black is our foreground color.
Open your Pencil Tool and Pencil Picker.
We'll adjust the size in a moment.
Make the Hardness and Opacity, both: 100%.
To adjust your the Size of your Pencil, first, make sure your CapLock key is off
and then, press the left or right Bracket key on your keyboard.
Brush over the unwanted spots to mask them out.
Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light.
Click the "fx" icon and click "Bevel Emboss".
The Style is Inner Bevel, the Technique is Smooth
and the Depth is 100%.
The Direction is Down and the Size: 4 pixels.
The Angle is 120 degrees and the Altitude is 30 degrees.
The Highlight Mode is Linear Dodge, the color is white and the Opacity is 35%.
The Shadow Mode is Linear Burn, the color is black and its opacity is also 35%.
To make our portrait easier to see, make a copy of the layer and reduce its opacity to 30%.
Lastly, we'll increase the overall contrast of our woodcut.
Click the Adjustment layer icon and click Levels.
In the Input Shadow field, type in 26 and in the Input Highlight field, type in 242.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!