Bright & Shiny Art Tutorial.

To use this tutorial, you must have a basic knowledge of Photoshop and its tools. Here the pictures I used for this collage:

For this kind of art I always start on a white canvas. I started with the image of Alexa. Run a smart blur (radius 1.1) over Alexa´s picture. As always I duplicated the image and set it to soft light. Both have been desaturated and I used the diffuse glow filter to make it shiny. On some points of her face (lips and eyes) I used the burn tool becaus they just were too light. Now I started to randomly add brushes. (Linzee, AvH, Orchidee, Blind Rage) Now we have the basic for our collage.

Next I used Thia´s background. Put it on top of the collage, used the gausian blur and set it to screen.

The next step is we take the same background, run a motion blur and set it again to screen. Here I also played a little with brightness and contrast.

I duplicated the b/w picture we started with and put it on top of it all, set to softlight. Now, the color looks a lot brighter.

I´m not happy with the lips and eyes. So I duplicated the them using the copy merged command. I now have 4 layers of lips, set to linear burn. For the eyes I have now 2 layers. One is set to screen and one is set to color burn.

I love sparkles, as you all know. *g* So I just randomly added some of Linzee´s beautiful stardust to the collage.

We´re almost done. Now I flattened the whole collage and added on top of it the paper picture. The setting is color burn and I used the gausian blur. That´s it.

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