Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create the ultra-violet, black light effect.
For your convenience, I provided this photo,
but feel free to use another photo if you like. Its link is in my video's description or project files.
To save time, I also provided the shape of the sunglasses which we'll use later.
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The first step is to make a selection around the subject. There are many ways to do this, however,
for this example, let's use our Quick Selection Tool. Make its Radius 10 pixels. If you're using
CC 2018 or later, click the Select Subject button. It does a relatively good job automatically
selecting our subject. To fill in areas it didn't select, just drag your tool over them. If you're
using an earlier version, drag your tool over your entire subject. To remove areas of the selection,
press and hold Alt or Option as you drag over them. To refine soft or feathery areas like hair,
go to Select. If you're using a version earlier than CC 2015.5, click Refine Edge. For later
versions, click Select and Mask. If you prefer to use Refine Edge, Shift-click Select and Mask.
I did in-depth tutorials on both of these filters, so if you'd like to watch them,
I provided their links, as well. Check "Smart Radius". This detects smooth and hard edges.
To adjust the size of your brush, make sure the CapsLock key is off and press the right or left
bracket key on your keyboard. Brush over the edge of the hair and other areas to refine its edges.
Feather it 1 pixel to soften the edges a bit and check Decontaminate Colors. This prevents
the background colors and tones from bleeding into the edges of our subject. Drag it to 100%.
Output it to a "New Layer with Layer Mask".
We'll create a black background under the active layer by Ctrl or Cmd-clicking the New Layer icon.
Check your foreground and background colors. If they aren't black and white respectively,
press "D" on your keyboard. Since black is our foreground color,
press Alt or Option + Delete. Make the layer mask active and open your Brush Tool
and Brush Picker. Pick a soft, round brush. Let's make its size 1400 pixels to start. Its Hardness
is 0%, the Opacity is 50% and the Flow is 100%. Click over the head two or three times. Reduce the
brush's size and click again. Continue adjusting its size to gradually reveal the original
background of your photo directly behind the head. Make your subject active and go to Filter,
Distort and Diffuse Glow.
The Graininess is 0, the Glow Amount is 2 and the Clear Amount is 10.
We'll convert our image into a Smart Object, so we can continue to add filters
to it non-destructively. To do this, Shift-click the bottom layer to make all the layers active
and click the icon at the upper, right. Click "Convert to Smart Object".
Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Brightness/Contrast".
Drag the Brightness to minus 150 and the Contrast to plus 100. Open the Adjustments
panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and Adjustments. Click the "Hue/Saturation" icon.
Check "Colorize". For the Hue, type in 220, the Saturation: 33 and the Lightness: minus 20.
Open the Adjustments panel again and click the "Levels" icon. For the Input midtones,
type in point 65 and for the Input Highlights, type in 200.
For the Output highlights, type in 210. Click the Adjustment Layer icon and click "Solid Color".
In the hexadecimal field, type in:110094. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Change its Blend Mode to Color Dodge. Next, we'll add glows to the skin and teeth.
Make a new layer and let's name it highlights. Change its Blend Mode to Color Dodge.
With your Brush Tool active, press "x" to invert the foreground and background colors,
so white is your foreground color. Reduce the brush's size approximately this much
and reduce its opacity to 50%. Brush above and below the sunglasses, the top of the nose
and the teeth. Next, we'll make the sunglasses glow to the UV
light. Open your Channels panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels.
Ctrl or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the Glasses channel to select its shape. Open back the Layers panel
and make your subject active. Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut the inside of the selection and copy it
to its own layer. Then, deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
We'll jump the cut-out glasses to the top of the Layers panel by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + the right bracket key until it s at the top.
Convert it into a Smart Object, so we can modify it non-destructively. Make a copy of it
and click the eyeball next to the copy to hide it. Double-click an empty area of the original
glasses layer to open the Layer Style window. Click Outer Glow . If the box isn't white, click
it and pick white. The Blend Mode is Linear Light, and the Opacity is 30%. The Technique is Softer,
the Spread is 0% and the Size is 10 pixels. The Contour is linear, and the Range is 50%.
Make the top glasses visible and active. Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur.
Blur it 1 pixel.
Go to Image, Adjustments, and Invert. Go back to Image, Adjustments and Hue/Saturation.
Check "Colorize". For the Hue, type in 210. The Saturation is 77 and the Lightness is 10 pixels.
Make a copy of the copy.
Double-click Gaussian Blur of the second copy. If you see this message, it's just letting us know
that the other smart filters will be temporarily turned off. Make the Blur Radius: 10 pixels.
Double-click Hue/Saturation and make the Hue: 240 and the Lightness: minus 10.
Change the Blend Mode to Screen. Next, we ll add a soft glow around the inside perimeter
of the lenses. To save space in the Layers panel, let's collapse the Smart Filters.
Ctrl or Cmd-click the glasses of Layer 1 to select its shape. Press "Q" to make the selection into
a quick mask. Make a new layer. Open your Paint Bucket Tool and invert your colors, so white is
your foreground color. Make sure "Contiguous" is checked. You'll see the reason in a moment.
Click anywhere outside the glasses to delete the quick mask. The reason the shapes of the lenses weren't
deleted is because Contiguous was checked. Press "Q" to revert the quick mask into a selection.
Invert the selection by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I. We'll fill the selection with black and
since our background color is black, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete. Then, deselect it. Reduce the Fill
to 0%. This makes the black lens shapes invisible, but it'll retain the Layer Style effects that
we'll be adding to it. Double-click the glasses to open its Layer Style window. Click Inner Glow.
The Blend Mode is "Soft Light", the Opacity is 30%, and the color is white.
The Technique is Softer, the Source is Edge, the Choke is 0% and the Size is 250 pixels.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!