today learn how to add glowing paint to your face using any image and it's
actually really easy to do when it does look really neat so let's get right into
it today's tutorial is split into two
different parts i'm firstly we're going to be working in photoshop because we
need a very dark and a moody image for the glowing paint effect to actually
work and then we're going to move into illustrator where we can create the
actual effect itself so in photoshop take any image of yourself or a person
for that matter and double click the layers window to unlock the image then
we need to duplicate the layer however make sure to use the new option which
would duplicate the layer into a new document so once you have the new layer
ready we're going to want to convert the mode to grayscale which you can find
here when you have a grayscale image we need to increase the levels of tiny bits
acid image has some nice contrast going on which will help the glowing and paint
effects really burst out later in the video
so once you've done that simply a press command or control C on your keyboard to
copy this layer and then head back to the original image and press command or
control V which will paste the grayscale image over the top now we want to change
the blend mode of this grayscale image to multiply which you can find right
here in the layers window and I'm have a couple more steps before we actually
finish using Photoshop but again it is necessary for the effect work in
Illustrator later in the video now we're going to add a lighting effect for this
layer and you want to make sure that you're using the spot option this can't
be a tad tricky and a bit fiddly but you want to enhance the facial region with
these spotlights and you can change the actual size of the spot area by hovering
your cursor until you see the text hotspot angle appear in your screen and
it can be difficult to locate at times but just keep trying to locate it now
don't worry if you have areas still lit on the background because we're going to
change that later in the next step
create a new layer and make sure you have black selected in the color
palettes press a beer for the brush tool and have a somewhat slower pasty and a
soft brush in use and you can then carefully paint over the areas of your
background that are still illuminated and this is going to finish off the
image for the glowing paint effects I
personally like to make a new document and then drag my image onto it and I
used a new layer of black to fill in the negative space on the left but once
you've completed that save the image as a PNG or JPEG and then we can head back
into a debilitated this step you're going to need some vector brushes or as
some vector brush strokes rather and I have multiple links down below where you
can find free and also paid versions of vector brushstrokes now it's just a case
of dragging them onto your image and applying a gradient now I've positioned
my brush stroke vertically and so the angle of my gradient needs to be in
ninety degrees I'm gonna use three spot gradient colors
and to add a spot color just click on the spectrum bar as you can see here now
you may want to change the color modes if you have a grayscale gradient and you
can use whatever colors you want but I'm going to use a similar blue hue
throughout my entire gradient it's also worth noting that it can be effective to
have one side of your gradient with a lower opacity or even set to 0% opacity
because this is going to help the glueing paint effect blend into your
design that much better but if you drag the stroke onto the image you will see
that it doesn't look ideal in any way shape or form well that's where we open
up the transparency window which for me is still actually located next to the
gradient depending on your design you might want
to experiment between overlay soft lights and maybe even color burn but for
my design today overlay it seems to her best so I do feel this glowing paint
effect really looks neat and awesome and it's a lot of fun to play around with on
different images do you remember to set up the image in
Photoshop first however because you do want a dark and I'm moody background let
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