A Work in Progress: smoker



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smoker
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dragan effect


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original image of the man

Creation of smoker: Step 1

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background

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smoke

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Lightroom adjustments

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I clear cut the man.

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Placed on background

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Added a Hue and saturation layer set to only effect the man

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Added a Brightness and contrast layer

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Highpass set to hard light

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added the smoke,, used Warp to pull it the way I wanted it, set the layer to screen and lowered the opacitiy

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added a new layer filled with 50% gray and set to overlay,
I then used the darken brush on some areas

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I isolated the jersey and copied it to it's own layer above all the rest. set the layer to multiply and lowered the opacity to 63%

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added a Hue and saturation layer to affect only the jersey

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Now for the background,
I duplicated the background and used High Pass and set the layer to hard light, lowering the opacity

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used curves on the background

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added an vignette,
used the lasso set and 130px, inverted it and copied it to a curves layer

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the history pallet.

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Final result

Creation of smoker: Final Result

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