Photoshop tutorial: Create a person made of water from a photo

Intro

In this photo manipulation tutorial, Jennifer Cirpici explains how to create a figure that appears made from water, working from a stock photograph.

Water is a difficult element to blend, but Jennifer’s tutorial proves it’s not as hard as it looks. She shows you how to achieve a stunning end result with many basic blending tricks, including painting lighting and shadow, and setting up a focal point with a gradient. She also shows you how to make a ‘rain brush’, handy to paint with if you don’t have stock images of water.
The effects here are often used in advertising for drinks or perfume, as water represents freshness, cleanness and the quenching of thirst.

Time to complete

4 hours

Software

Photoshop

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Photoshop tutorial: How to remove a background in Photoshop

How to remove a background from a photo in Photoshop in this step-by-step tutorial.

Intro

Removing the background from a photograph can be a really tricky task, particularly if the subject you want to cut out has lots of hair, or if the background is exceedingly complex. Here, we take you through the process of removing a background from an image to help you overcome that challenge.
First, you'll need to open the image you wish to remove the background from in Adobe Photoshop. Here, I'm using a photograph I took of a giraffe at Colchester Zoo to demonstrate this technique, which has a very defined boundary between the bit we want to keep (the giraffe) and the background. For images with fine detail around what you want to cut out – such as hair – see our tutorial on how to cut out hair in Photoshop.

I'm using Adobe CC, but the background removal technique detailed here will work in Photoshop CS5 and above, though some elements may look slightly different.
Once you've chosen the image you want to remove the background from and opened it in Photoshop, use the slideshow controls above and right to follow the remaining steps in the tutorial (if you're viewing this site on a computer or tablet – if you're on a phone, just scroll down).

Time to complete

10 minutes

Software needed

Adobe Photoshop CS5 or later

 

Step: 1

Now, you'll need to make a selection. To make a selection there are various tools you can use, but for beginners, the easiest tools to use are the Quick Selection Tool and the Magic Wand Tool. There's also the Lasso tool, which can be more accurate but also take longer to use.
For this example, we're using the Quick Selection tool, which can be found in the tools panel.
Make sure you're using the Quick Selection tool with the '+' in the centre, by pressing the shift key.
Select the background that you'd like to remove by clicking and dragging around the area. If you accidentally select something you didn't want to, you can press and hold the alt key on your keyboard to use the '-' Quick Selection tool and remove it from the selection. Remember to press shift again before continuing to select more of the background, though.
You don't need to be too accurate with things like hair and fur, because you can refine the edge later (we'll come onto that in a minute).
When you're happy with your selection, right click and then click 'Select inverse'.

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61 best Photoshop tutorials

Learn techniques for Photoshop across art, illustration, graphics and photography in these tutorials from the world's best practitioners.

Photoshop is a very versatile software tool, as flexible for seamlessly compositing disparate elements into a beautiful photomotage as it is making your photos look even more stunning. It also provides an effortless platform for creating dynamic graphics for both web and print - and let's not forget its pragmatic usefulness as a day-to-day tool for tranforming graphics and photos into the perfect format for your output requirements.
Here we've created a round-up of the best Photoshop tutorials from the past decade of Digital Arts, covering everything from collage and illustration to photography and typography. Some require a recent version of the software, such as Photoshop CC or Photoshop CS6 – but many will work in Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 or CS5.

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