Zombified Tutorial!

by **Flaw of Insanity** Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:57 pm

Hey peoples! Your friendly explosive Artistic Madman here! I'm going to show you a cool trick in CS3 photoshop, MAYBE CS4 if I can get it to work as well as it should...

Step 1: Find a photo and open it in photoshop, I'm using a stock image I found on Deviant Art.

Step 2: Duplicate the layer, and find your dodge tool on your tool bar

Step 3: Use the dodge tool around the eyes (this can be a sloppy job right now)

Step 4: Go to Image/Adjustments/Variations (before I did this, if you are working with a very big image like I am, delete a lot of the stuff you don't need before hand - -)

Step 5: Choose whatever color you want the eyes to glow (for a zombie manner I recommend Red, White or Yellow)

Step 6: Erase everything BUT the eyes, be sure to do a REALLY good job here.

Step 7: Goto your background layer

Step 8: Use the sponge tool (under the same place as dodge, you have to hold down mouse button)

Step 9: Go over the skin, be sure to do as many coats as you think makes them look "dead".

Step 10: Use the burn tool (same place as sponge and dodge) (make sure range is Midtones) under the eyes, around the cheek bones and anywhere else you see fit.

Step 11 (optional): Change the burn tool's range to Shadows and go around the mouth, do enough coats and it looks like blood.

FINISHED!