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Preview:


'Breakout' Photo Effect.





Step 1:


Let's start out by creating a new file. I used a 700x525 pixels canvas set at 72dpi, and I filled my background with a black color. In a new layer add a picture of a face, grab the example used in this tutorial here.





Step 2:


Duplicate your picture layer from step one and go to Filter > Pixelate > Pointilize, add the settings below.







Step 3:


Turn the picture into black and white by going to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.





Step 4:


Now sharpen the image through Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen More.





Step 5:


Set the layer's blending mode to Soft Light at 80% opacity.





Step 6:


Create a new layer and draw a black circle with 57 x 57 px dimensions.





Step 7:


Under Layer Style(Layer > Layer Style) add an Outer Glow, Inner Glow Satin and Gradient Overlayblending options to your black layer. Then set the layer's blending mode to Lighten.























Step 8:


You should now have a break out effect on the skin.





Step 9:


Add more break out designs by duplicate the original layer and resizing through Edit > Transform > Scale.





Results:


'Breakout' Photo Effect.



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There are 4 comments
July 22, 2008 - 17:07

I checked the steps and here's some things I noticed that might help:

On Step 2, before applying Pointilize, fill background color to black. The first time it showed up as white, and I thought maybe it wasn't clear that the duplicate layers needs the black backgorund as well.

On Step 7, follow the Steps EXACTLY as it outlined. I had to check over several time and even repeating the steps until I found the desirable results.

Overall, it took me about 20-30 minutes, although admittedly, my PS skills are pretty rusty.
Hmm..

carthago
July 22, 2008 - 12:38

Well thx alot for this tutorial, but my results also didnt look alike. and i checked everything and did everything like you did. what is a possible reason?

July 22, 2008 - 08:36

Thanks for tutorrial, very nice.

Stefan

July 22, 2008 - 05:46

Nice tutorial. Only problem I had though was that mine didn't look like yours... so what I did was lowered the opacity of the "zit" layers to 50%.

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