Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to transform a person's
face into the look of Gene Simmons from KISS.
For your convenience and to save time, I provided
this image that we'll use to create the makeup around the eyes. Its link is located in the
video description or project files. Open a photo you'd like to use. I downloaded this
one from Shutterstock.com. Make sure the person is facing you straight on.
Click the icon at the upper, right of the Layers panel and click "Duplicate Layer". Open the Document
list and click "New". Type in "Displacement" and click OK.
Displacement maps generally look best when they're blurred,
so go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. I'll blur it 5 pixels.
You may need to adjust this amount, based on the size and resolution of your photo.
Make the blur look similar to this example. Then click OK.
Go to File and "Save As".
Click "Desktop" and save it as a ".PSD" file.
Then, click Save.
If you see this warning, click OK.
Click the small "x" on the right of the Displacement tab to close the file.
Make 2 copies of the photo by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J, twice. We'll remove all the color from
the top layer by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + U. Then, change its Blend Mode to Multiply.
Click off the eyeball next to the layer to hide it and click the thumbnail of Layer 1
to make it active. We need to make a selection around the face to isolate it for the white
make-up. There are many ways to make selections, but for this example, I'll use the Pen Tool.
I did an entire tutorial on how to use this tool, so I won't be going over it in-depth here.
I'll create paths that follow the contours of the edge of the face and hairline.
When you reach the original starting point of a path, you'll see a small circle. This tells
you that if you click on it the point, you'll close the work path. Click the Paths tab to
open the panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and Paths. Ctrl-click or Cmd-click
on the thumbnail to make the work path into a selection. Go to Select and Refine Edge.
Check "Smart Radius" and brush over the edge of the hairline and forehead. Smart Radius
automatically adapted the radius to the image edges thereby including the hair along the
edges with the selection. Output it as a "selection" and click OK.
Go to Select and Save Selection.
Type in "Face Shape" and click OK or press Enter or Return.
To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Open the Layers panel and open the Eye makeup shapes that I provided.
To get it into your photo document, press "V" to open your Move Tool and drag the eye makeup
shapes onto the tab of your photo. Without releasing your mouse or pen, drag it down
onto the image and then release. To resize and position it onto the face, open your Transform
Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. Temporarily, reduce its opacity so you can see through
it. Drag it to the center and to resize it, 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. Center it
over the nose and position the points on the bottom a bit below the nose. If you want to
warp the shape, click the "Warp Transform" icon and drag the lines and points on the
grid to warp the shape. To ensure that the shapes will remain symmetrical to each other,
wherever you place the point on one side of the grid, mirror the position of the point
on the other side of the grid. To accept it click the checkmark at the top or press Enter
or Return. Since, I'll keep the original shape, I'll undo the warp by pressing Ctrl or Cmd
+ Z. Increase the opacity back to 100% and change its blend mode to "Soft Light".
Next, we'll add makeup to the lips.
Press "Z" to open your Zoom Tool and drag it over the mouth
of your subject. To move it, press & hold the Space bar on your keyboard as you
drag your image. This time, I'll use the Pencil Tool. I'll make the Size: 5 pixels and the
Hardness: 100%. I'll press Enter or Return and the F5 key at the top of my keyboard to
open the Brush Presets. I'll make sure none of the settings are checked, except "Smoothing".
Then, I'll press F5 again to close the panel. I'll click the Quick Mask icon so I can draw
a quick mask. I'll draw around the edge of the lips and when I get to a corner, I'll
release my cursor, go to here and Shift-click on the image to make a straight line. I'll
release my cursor, go to to the edge of the bottom lip and Shift-click again to make another
straight line. I'll continue to follow the edge of the lips and when I get to here, I'll
make another dagger-like shape. To fill it in, I'll open the Paint Bucket Tool and click
inside the quick mask. I'll press "Q" to make it into a selection and invert the selection
by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I. I'll fill it with black and since black is the
foreground color, I'll press Alt or Option + Delete. Then, deselect it. To fit the entire
document back onto your canvas, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Next, we'll make the widow's peak
at the top of the forehead. Open the Channels panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and
Channels. Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of the face shape to make it into a selection.
Open back up your Layers panel and press "Q" to see the selection as a quick mask. With
your Pen Tool make a "V" shape over the center of the forehead overlapping the hair. To reposition
the lowest anchor point, press and hold Ctrl or Cmd as you drag it. Let's bend in
each side of the V. Go the middle of a side and Alt-click or Option click directly on
the path to add an anchor point. Then, Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on it as you drag it in.
Repeat these steps on the other side.
Click at the top, left on the quick mask to make anchor point
and continue to do this around the head until you've reached the first anchor
point to close the work path. Open your Paths panel and Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail
of the work path to make it into a selection. Press "Q" to make the selection into a quick
mask and then, deselect it. Press "Q" again to convert this new shape into a selection.
Open back up your Layers panel and fill the selection with black. Then, deselect it.
Make Layer 1 active. Click the Adjustment layer icon and click Hue/Saturation.
Click the Clipping Mask icon to clip or restrict the adjustment layer to effect just the one layer beneath
it in the Layers panel. If we didn't clip the adjustment layer, it would effect all
the layers beneath it in the Layers panel. Drag the Saturation all the way to the left
to remove all the color. To bring back some of the color, reduce its opacity to 80%.
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and choose Levels.
Clip it
and brighten the Input midtones to 1.16.
Make the dark makeup layer active. We're ready to displace it, so it'll
wrap around the contours of the face. Go to Filter, Distort and Displace. Make the Horizontal
and Vertical Scales 5, Stretch to Fit and Repeat Edge Pixels. Then, click OK.
Click the "Displacement" file that you saved at the beginning and click "Open".
The dark make-up made a subtle, but important shift.
You'll see that it's now wrapping itself ] around the contours.
To remove the dark shapes under the nose, open your Zoom Tool and zoom into it.
Open your Eraser Tool and choose a small point size with a hardness of 0%.
Brush over the dark points under the nose to erase them, as well as the inside of the eyes.
Then, fit your entire image back onto your canvas.
Drag the dark makeup layer to to the top of your Layers panel.
Make the black and white face layer visible and active.
At this point, your image should look approximately as dark as this, however, since this layer
will be used for the black make-up, we need to make it even darker and have more contrast.
Click the Adjustment layer and click Brightness/Contrast.
Clip it
and for this image, I'll make the Brightness: -62 and the Contrast: 78.
Experiment with your image to make it look similar to this.
Next, we create the white make-up.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of the dark
make-up to make the shapes into a selection. Make the black and white layer active. Click
the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the black and white layer.
Open the Channels panel.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of the "Face
Shape" to make a selection of its shape. Open back up the Layers panel and press Ctrl+ Alt
or Cmd + Option as you click on the thumbnail of the dark make-up layer to add its shape
to the selection.
Make Layer 1 active and click the layer mask icon to make a layer
mask of the selection next to it. Lastly, we'll remove some of the skin color from the
dark make-up. First, scroll to the top of the Layers panel and make the the top layer
active. Then, make a composite snapshot of your image by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Alt
+ E on Windows or Cmd + Shift + Option + E on a Mac.
Go to this layer mask and press
and hold Alt or Option as you drag a copy of it next to the composite snapshot.
Click the Adjustment layer icon and click Hue/ Saturation.
Clip it
and reduce the saturation to minus 40.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!