Halloween Photo Effect: Turning Portrait Into Stone Statue
This is a simple tutorial on how you can make a statue from a portrait with Photoshop. It is highly recommended if you’re using a close up portrait of a woman/man.
You can download the stone texture image for free at Free Stockphotos.com
Have fun!
Step1. Open your portrait (file>open or ctrl+o)
Step 2. Desaturate your photo; image>adjustments>desaturate or shift+control+u
Step 3. Open your stone texture file, and drag it into your face photo. Change the layer blend mode to multiply.
Step 4. Now you’ll need to eliminate the eyes. using your pen tool draw a path around her left eye and make a selection (go to your Paths Pallete, click on the work path, and click the ‘Load Path as a Selection’ in the bottom of your pallete).
Step 5. Use the clone tool and select an area of the stone texture as your source and clone it around the eye. Go to curve adjustment and play around with the curve to adjust her new eye brightness/contrast. Choose your blur tool, and smooth the edges of the new eye. Here’s what I come up with:
Step 6. Now repeat step 4 and 5 to do the right eye.
Step 7. To make the eye more three dimensional: create new layer, change the blend mode to ‘linear burn’ and change the opacity to around 20-30%. Choose the brush tool and choose black foreground color. Start to burn the area around the eyes with your brush tool. Play around with your opacity to get the perfect result. Here’s mine:
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Very nice tutorial, where did you get the stone texture?
Thanks Steve, you can easily find and donwload any stone textures from free photos sites..
Hope that helps..
your result is really beautiful (mine didn’t come out that good, maybe because of the photo and the texture I used. Can you pubish your texture?) but you should have explained the steps more detailed, e.g. are there new layers in STEP 4 and 5?
Norbert..nope, you don’t have to create a new layer in step 4 & 5..
As for the texture, Sorry..I couldn’t find it on my hd, must have deleted it. Try to go to free stock photos sites..They have heaps of good stone textures.
This tutorial is very nice!
I’m tutorial author too but never got such “artistic” idea. I admire to artists like you, i have too technical aproach…
very nice!
Nice tutorial and very creative.
Love the tutorial…but where specificaly did you get the stone texture photo??
How do you do step 3?
what photo program are you opening these with? i cannot get the stone texture to go over the photo
Wow this is fantastic!
hello.
the photo that you create is fantastic.
well done.
i will be glad if you explain a little more about the blur tool. i dont know what to do…
thank you for your ideas