Drawing realistic color portrait (Tutorial)

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In this tutorial you will learn how to transform your photo into drawing portrait. You will create amazing effect from usual photo.

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Here I have this picture

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1.Step.And I will start by separating the THE LADY from the back ground, it`s easy to do , use the pen tool to do it.
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And make sure you are using the shown options

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and start to make a selection around the lady

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Here I have made the selection

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2.Step. As you notice that there's some errors with the hair, so we're going to exclude the background from the hair, to do that select this option for the pen tool

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and exclude the background

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3. Step. Now go to Paths window, right-click over the path you have made and select "make selection"




Make sure that you are making New selection

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Here you made a selection around the lady

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So inverse the selection to select the background, and then delete

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4.Step. Now convert the picture to black and white by pressing Ctrl+Shift+U
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then open the Levels window

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set the shown values or change as it fits your picture

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5. Step. After changing the level, you may get some shadowed areas, paint those areas with white

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this is after painting them

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6. Step. Now create a new layer for coloring the hair, place it over the lady's layer and make it a Clipping mask


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7. Step. Now for all the coloring layers use the same settings of Creating Clipping mask and Changing their mode to Darken


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8. Step. start coloring the hair with yellow

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9. Step. And in a new layer, color the face


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and so on for everything


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10. Step. And finally make a layer to make some shadows over the eyes and around the nose


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These are all the layers I had


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11. Step.Now we have to work on the background. make a new layer at the bottom and color it with any color, and then select the two colors that you want the background to be painted with them

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and then apply the filter Halftone pattern, from Sketch list. Use Circles as the type and set the size and contrast you want



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Result:

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