A Work in Progress: Once upon a time...



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Once upon a time...
In Contest:
indian head


Original image


step 1 of 12

Cut out the head using pen tool.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 1

step 2 of 12

Used the green layer to work on. Because it has good contrast and brightness. Duplicated it.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 2

step 3 of 12

Used filter-surface blur to smooth out the face, leaving the hair intact.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 3

step 4 of 12

created a new layer with fill-50% grey. That shall be our colour for the coin.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 4

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Used filter- lightning effects. Now in the drop box i used to apply it on the green copy layer. And unchecked the "white high"box, so it would not look carved out.
Freestyle settings here.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 5

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Now, i cut out the coin shape with elliptical marquee tool and created a new layer.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 6

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New layer with fill - white. This shall be the background for picture.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 7

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Now i wanted to add a border to the coin. I selected the coin with ctrl-layer and then used select - modify - contract, so i could contract the selection by 40 pxls.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 8

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After contracting, i inverted the selection and used ctrl+j to create a new layer. So now i got a ring layer separated from the coin.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 9

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Used bevel and emboss blending to get a nice embossed effect. Used circular light source.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 10

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Added text and used the same blending an tit, just changed the circular light source to upper left.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 11

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Some final touches to the coin, and at the end i added a reflection of the coin. finish.

Creation of Once upon a time...: Step 12

Final result

Creation of Once upon a time...: Final Result

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avatar lchappell
lchappell says:

You really should turn this into a tutorial, great work all around!

(5 years and 3455 days ago)
avatar erikuri
erikuri says:

Perfect!...

(5 years and 3451 days ago)