Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you a quick way to transform a photo of a face into an exciting portrait
that blends abstract expressionism, pop art and glitch art.
In addition, the method allows you to instantly replace your photo with another without having
to redo any of the effects.
I provided this bare metal texture that you can download, so you can follow along.
Its link is located in my video's description or project files below.
Open a photo of someone that you'd like to use for this project.
To place it into the bare metal texture file, press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag
it onto the tab of the bare metal texture.
Without releasing your mouse or pen, press and hold Shift as you drag the photo onto the image.
Holding Shift kept the photo centered over the texture.
To fit your photo onto the document, open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T.
To see your 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 reposition it, go inside the bounding box and drag your image.
Then, press Enter or Return.
We'll crop off the areas that extend beyond the edges by pressing
Ctrl or Cmd + A to select it and going to Image and Crop.
Deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
To fit the image back onto your canvas, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0.
We'll convert our photo into a Smart Object, so we can adjust the effects at any time,
as well as, replace the photo with another without having to redo any of the effects.
Click the icon at the top, right corner of the Layers panel and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Click the eyeball icon next to the copy to hide the layer
and make the original layer active.
Change its Blend Mode to "Color Burn".
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Levels".
I'll drag the Input highlight level to 143 and the Output black level to 64.
Click the Adjustment layer icon again and this time, click "Vibrance".
Drag the Vibrance to 100 and I'll make the Saturation: 20.
Make Layer 1 active and go to Filter, Distort and Shear.
Go to the bottom anchor point and drag it to the right a bit.
Drag the top anchor point approximately this much.
Make the top layer visible and active.
Change its blend mode to Multiply.
Go to Filter, Distort and Wave.
Feel free to experiment with the settings.
For mine, I'll make the number of generators: 100...the Wavelength: 1 and 94...the Amplitude:
998 and 999...and the Scale: 1%.
The Type is "Sine" and the Undefined Areas is "Repeat Edge Pixels".
To quickly create a new portrait, double-click the Smart Object to open the source photo.
If you're using a version earlier than CC, go to File and Open. Then, find and click a
photo you'd like to replace the original one with and drag the photo onto the Smart Object's
original source photo.
If you're using version CC or later, go to File and Place Embedded.
Again, find and click a photo.
Then, click "Place".
If you're using a version earlier than CC, use your Transform Tool to resize the new photo.
On versions CC and later, the Transform Tool opened by default.
If you need more room, zoom out by pressing Ctrl or Cmd plus the minus key on your keyboard.
Then, resize and position the new photo to fit the document.
Close the tab of the Smart Object.
When this message pops up, just click "Yes" to save the changes.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!