Tutorial #1: Gryffindor Trio Screencap

9 steps, good for beginners, pretty cool!


From this:


To this:


Or this:


It doesn't look all that good, but I used a bunch of different techniques!

Step 1: Open a screencap or picture of the trio or whatever you like. Change the lighting, color, sharpen & blur, etc. Change whatever you want to make it look better!

Here is the screencap I will be using. (Thanks so much to

homeofthenutty

Now, use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to outline the Gryffindor ties and stripes on their shirts. Right click on it and select layer via copy. Then once you are done copying all the ties and stripes, merge each one down. But don’t merge with the original picture.

This is how the copied ties and stripes should look. Don’t mess with the original picture, this is just to show you how it should look!

Step 3: I really want to make the Gryffindor colors stand out so I increased the saturation (my setting was +45). Do it only on the copied ties and stripes!

You should have something like this.


Step 4: Now, to make it even more interesting, I desaturated the base picture. But I didn’t like the complete black & white, so I undid the desaturation part and instead only desaturated it a little bit (mine was -65).

OPTIONAL: I went back to the copied ties and stripes then duplicated that layer. I set it to hard light at 50%. It gives it more solid, darker color. So it looks like this.


Step 5: Finally, merge all the layers together.

Step 6: Now, go to Filter - Distort - Diffuse Glow. I set the Graininess to 0, the Clear Amount to 15, and the Glow Amount to 10. Make sure your background color is set to white! I didn’t like how Harry and Hermione’s faces were glowing and Ron’s wasn’t, so I used the Burn Tool over Harry and Hermione’s faces. Try to match it best with how Ron’s face looks!

This is how it should look.


Step 7: I still didn’t like how it looked so I duplicated the base picture and set it to multiply at 50%. And then I desaturated it completely and also increased the lightness to 30. But Harry and Hermione’s eyes were darker than I wanted so I used the Dodge Tool on just their eyes. Merge those 2 base pictures together.

This is where you could stop.


OPTIONAL: I also added a motioned blurred background. First, you duplicate the base picture twice. Then, go to Filter - Blur - Motion Blur and set the distance to 35 and leave the angle at 0. Then with the second duplicate picture you take the Background Eraser Tool and erase the background that you want zoomed. Then merge the layers and you should have something that looks like this!


Step 8: To add a little something more to this picture, I took this texture

and put it to color dodge. Then I erased whatever was covering their faces.

Now you have this!


Step 9: The last thing I did was add this texture

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