Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Today’s tutorial, we will show you how to create a fantastic space dancer with nebula texture using photoshop. In this tutorial we will be using image adjustment options, layer blending, masking, filter effect and very importance to choose the right stock texture for design. So why not have a try…

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

  • Dancer
  • Nebula Texture 1

Step 1

Load the dancer image into Photoshop and resize the image to 1200px * 1477px. The purpose of resizing image is to make it rough the same size as the textures we’re going to apply on it.

Make a duplication of the background layer, hit Ctrl + Alt + Shift + B and apply the Black and White adjustment Tool with following settings:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Name this duplicated layer “black and white”. Make another two duplications of this “black and white” layer and change the blending mode of those two duplicated to “Hard Light”.

You will have the following effect so far:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Step 2

Load the “Nebula texture 1″ image into Photoshop, copy and paste it onto our dancer document. This will create a new layer and let’s name it “nebula texture 1″.

On this “nebula texture 1″ layer, go to Edit > Transform > Free Transform (or Ctrl + T), resize, rotate this layer as you wish, the ultimate goal is to find a position where the outer part of the nebula image is surrounding the model.

When you’re satisfied, right-click this nebula texture 1 layer and choose “create clipping mask”.

Here is the effect so far:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Now we can go on and add some image adjustments layers for the nebula layer, so as to make it more stand-out.

From bottom to top, we add the following image adjustment layers: (make sure you tick the “use previous layer to create clipping mask” option for every one of them)

Color Balance:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Levels:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

On this Levels adjustment layer, apply the following layer mask:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Brightness and Contrast

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

and you will have the following effect so far:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Step 3

Load the “Nebula Texture 2″ into Photoshop, copy and paste it onto our dancer document and use the Free Transform Tool (Ctrl + T) to resize, rotate until it fits into the canvas.

Name this layer as “nebula texture 2″ and change its blending mode to “soft light” and you will have the following effect: (I hide the previous “nebula texture 1″ layer and its related adjustment layers)

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

To add a bit more contrast to this “Nebula Texture 2″ layer, we can add a Curve Adjustment layer (Make sure to tick the “use previous layer to create clipping mask” option) with the following settings:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Here is the effect afterwards:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Step 4

Make all layers visible, you image should now look like this:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Now we can do some retouch of the image. I personally feel the colour contrast is a bit too much, so I add another Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer on top of all layers, with the following settings:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

You will now have this effect:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

You can of course try out other adjustment tools and see what result that bring you.

Step 5

Now we can add some motion into the image. To do this, flatten the image (I would suggest before you flatten the image, save a copy of the existing file, then the save the flattened image as a new psd file), duplicate the background layer once and go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur and apply the following options:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Final Result:

 

Change the blending mode of the duplicated layer to “Screen” and opacity to 80%, you will have the following final effect:

Create a Fantastic Space Dancer with Nebula Texture using Photoshop

Hope you can learn something new from this tutorial.

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