hi this is marty from blue lightning tv i'm going to show you how to create
a chrome statuette from a photo i provided this template that contains two layers
a base for the statuette and a black background feel free to widen the canvas if your subject
requires more room to do this go to image and canvas size then just increase the width then fill
the rest of the background with black but before you do if your foreground and background colors
aren't black and white respectively press d on your keyboard since the foreground color is black
press alt or option plus delete to fill the rest of the canvas with black before we continue if you
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create a background for our statuette click the lock icon to unlock the background double-click
the layer to open its layer style window click gradient overlay and the gradient bar click the
black white gradient preset and the lower left stop click the color box and pick black then
click ok or press enter or return click the lower right stop the color box and pick black again
click below the bar to add a new stop and for its location
type in 72 click the color box and in the hexadecimal field type in 7 f 4 2 0 0.
click below the bar again and for this stop's location type in 74 click the box
and type in four f two nine
now we have a simple background for our statuette
next we'll add a spotlight that brightens the center of the wall
and floor click the new layer icon to make a new layer press x to invert your
foreground and background colors so white is now your foreground color open your brush tool
and brush picker pick a soft round brush make its size 2800 pixels its hardness zero percent and
its opacity and flow a hundred percent center your cursor approximately here and click once
change its blend mode to overlay next we'll add a reflection of the base onto the floor
make the base active and make a copy of it by pressing ctrl or command j
name the original base reflection and reduce its opacity to 20 percent press v to open
your move tool and press and hold the shift key as you drag the reflection copy down pressing
shift kept it aligned as you dragged it go to filter blur and gaussian blur blur it 5 pixels
next we'll add a reflective glow to the inner and outer edges of the base double-click the top base
to open its layer style window click inner glow if the color box isn't white click it and pick white
the blend mode is linear dodge and its opacity is 20 percent the technique is softer and the source
is edge the choke is 0 and the size is 70 pixels the contour is linear and the range is 50 percent
click outer glow the color is white the blend mode is screen and the opacity is 10
the technique is softer the spread is zero and the size is 80 pixels the contour is linear
and the range is 50 percent next we'll adjust the chrome base's color cast to the background
before we do let's save some space in the layers panel by collapsing the effects
click the adjustment layer icon and click hue saturation we want the adjustment layer to affect
just the base directly below it however since adjustment layers affect all the layers below
them in the layers panel we'll need to clip it or restrict it to the base layer to do this click
the clipping mask icon or go to layer and create clipping mask another way to clip it is to press
and hold alt or option as you hover your cursor between the layers when you see this icon click it
check colorize make the hue 30 the saturation 10 and the lightness 0. open a photo of someone or
something that you'd like to use for this project i downloaded this one from shutterstock using a
full figure is preferable since it is a statuette first we'll separate our subject from its
background there are many ways to do this but for this example let's use the quick selection tool if
you're using cc 2018 or later click the select subject button to let photoshop automatically
select it in earlier versions drag the tool over your subject to select it to remove areas of the
selection press and hold alt or option as you drag over those areas once we're happy with our
selection we'll soften its edges by going to select modify and feather feather it 1 pixel
click the layer mask icon to make a layer mask of it we'll place our subject and its layer mask
onto the base by pressing v to open the move tool and dragging it onto the tab of the base document
without releasing your mouse or pen drag your cursor down and release to resize your subject
press ctrl or command t to open your transform tool
go to a corner if you're using cc 2019 or later press and hold alt or option as you drag it
in or out in earlier versions press alt or option plus shift as you drag it then
press enter or return to reposition it just drag it we'll convert our subject into a smart object
go to filter blur and gaussian blur blur it 1 pixel
go back to filter blur and surface blur basically surface blur blurs an image
while preserving its edges make the radius and the threshold both 20. the radius specifies the
size of the area sampled for the blur while the threshold determines the amount of blur
click the adjustment layer icon and click black and white
clip it to your subject click the adjustment layer icon again and this time click invert
then clip it to the subject change the blend mode to difference shift-click the subject to make it
and the two adjustment layers above it active and convert them into a smart object
go to filter and filter gallery
open the artistic folder and click plastic wrap make the highlight strength
10 the detail 1 and the smoothness 15.
go to filter blur and gaussian blur blur it 1.5 pixels
click the adjustment layer icon and click curves
clip it to the subject
the curves panel basically shows the tonal range of our image by dragging the dark tones up
the mid-tones down and the light tones up creating a hill a valley and a hill we're drastically
altering the tones of our image the magic happens once we press ctrl or command j to make a copy
of it and clip it feel free to drag the curves until you're happy with the look of the chrome
shift-click the subject to make it and the two adjustment layers above it active and convert
them into a smart object we'll copy the inner and outer glows of the base onto our statuette
by pressing and holding alt or option as we drag the copy onto the statuette layer
we'll copy the hue saturation of the base as well drag the copy to the top
and clip it to the statuette lastly we'll add the reflection of the statuette below
the base reflection first let's collapse the smart filters to save some space
make the statuette active and make a copy of it press ctrl or command and the left bracket key
to jump the statute copy down between the base reflection and layer 1 which is the
white brush stroke that gave us the central glow over our background wall go to edit
transform and flip vertical
press and hold the shift key as you drag it down position it so that the hidden bottom
of the flipped statuette is positioned to the bottom of the visible statuette
reduce its opacity to 10 percent control or command click the thumbnail of the base reflection
to select its shape alt or option click the layer mask icon to make an inverted
layer mask of the selection this hides the statuette reflection behind the base reflection
go to filter blur and gaussian blur blur it 5 pixels
to restore back the color of the background re-clip the adjustment layer to the statuette
this is marty from blue lightning tv thanks for watching
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