(before and after) Style credits to this picture can be found in this post: Makeup Forever!
A lot of people have been asking me to do more Photoshop video tutorials showing how I process my images, especially my headshots. It really varies most of the time though, depending on each picture and how much I want to process it. Today’s picture a few people asked me to share how I processed some parts of it and also how I added the bokkeh background.
Please feel free to comment or email if you have any questions or suggestions and let me know if you found this tutorial helpful. Have a great weekend! <3
» You can view all of my current tutorials on my tutorials page.
A couple of weeks ago I was inspired by this pose and dress and wanted to create an image of a girl falling apart in pieces. I was experimenting with different tutorials I found online and they just weren’t helping me as much. So I showed my plurk friends a work in progress image (in this plurk) and they gave me lots of good advice, which I took and came up with the image you see here. However, it still needs a lot more work and polishing up but I’ve finally given up on it, for now. Real life got me busy so I haven’t had time to look up more tutorials or see how else I can improve it.
In the meantime, a few of you have messaged me and asked me how I did this effect. It’s really hard for me to explain it over IM or email so I promised to do this video and here it is. Not sure if it’s easy to follow or if it makes any sense but this is what I did to get this effect.
You can download the shattered glass photoshop brush that I used in the video from Theme Cavern at this link.
If I know myself well, I am sure I am going to continue to figure this shattered image out more in a few weeks when I have more time. If I can think of a better way to do this so it looks more polished, I will definitely share it here!
Let me know what you think of this tutorial and if you want me to share more like this!
» You can view all of my current tutorials on my tutorials page.
Credits:
*Skin: al vulo- Arya* natural blonde brow milk by Hlin Bluebird
*Hair: ::Exile:: Say What You Want:Sable by Kavar Cleanslate
*Dress: MEB : Lady by MariaElena Barbosa
*Mesh Hands: Slink Mesh Hand Casual by Siddean Munro
*Pose: flowey. Whiskey Monday: Punching Holes in the Clouds by Flutter Memel (@ Pose Fair)
People are always asking me how I add the highlights and shadows on my pictures. Of course, a lot of that are my windlight settings. But I also play around a little bit in photoshop. I do some dodge and burn, which I used on my hair in this picture. Using curves on adjustment layers is another thing I do sometimes, but it’s really not that obvious. It’s a very minor adjustment that I think adds a little more depth to an image. I’m not sure how useful you’ll find this technique, but here it is anyways.
I just did this image for fun because I’ve been dying to use the Shakti Face Jewelry by Eshi Otawara so I’ve decided to submit this into the Glam Affair Amberly contest. If you haven’t heard about the contest, click on over and check out the awesome linden prizes. It’s always fun to enter a contest, it really motivates me to work a bit harder. I hope you guys enter it too!
» You can view all of my current tutorials on my tutorials page.
Credits:
*Skin: Glam Affair – Amberly – Africa 11 D by Aida Ewing
*Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Giselle Mesh Hair – Chocolate by MissAllSunday Lemon (@ FaMESHed March)
*Eyelashes: Miamai_Catwalk Lashes_Glitter 01 by Monica Outlander
Eyes: Mayfly – Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Midnight Hazel) by Arkesh Baral
Eye + Face Jewels: Shakti Face Jewelry by Eshi Otawara
So, I was a bad girl this week and totally goofed off instead of learning something new in photoshop. Therefore I thought this time I would share a skin smoothing tutorial that helped me a lot a few years ago. This is the technique I still use to smooth skin. The tutorial is by Ryker Beck and can be viewed at this link. I get asked a lot how I smooth the skin in my pictures so I figured I’d go ahead and share that. And while I’m sharing tutorials from other SL residents, this is another great one by Elysium Eilde showing us how to get rid of those pesky grid lines you get in shadow pictures.
Today I’m wearing a new skin by Shai Delacroix of Casa Del Shai. It’s a very realistic dark skin. I love the warm tone and the makeups it comes with. You can check out the Casa Del Shai facebook page for more pictures of the skin and all the makeups. Then take the slurl to straylight to try on a demo yourself.
The light and summery mesh top I’m wearing is a new release from Zaara Kohime of {Zaara}. This is Zaara’s first mesh release with a lot more to come in the following weeks. I am so excited for all the stuff she’s about to release so make sure to add her blog to your readers and like her facebook page to keep up with all her upcoming releases. Zaara has also put all her new releases on marketplace.
I also wanted to share this last picture as well which I blogged on the iRez blog earlier this week. I love the mesh sunglasses from Maxi in this image that I picked up at Fameshed this month. Check out Seraphim for all the details on what’s available there this month.
Credits:
1st & 2nd picture:
Skin: *Shai* Jamaica Skin – GREEN by Shai Delacroix
Hair: booN KBO906 hair chocolate with booN hairbase by boo Nakamura
Eyes: Mayfly – Deep Sky Mesh (Desert Dawn, w4) by Arkesh Baral
*Blouse: Zaara : [Mesh] Ashima Blouse *fire* by Zaara Kohime
*Shorts: Zaara : Mitya shorts *red* by Zaara Kohime
*Headband: LaGyo_Catalina headbend gold by Gyorgyna Larnia @ Collabor88 for July
*Earrings: Intrigue Co. – MESH Sandcastle Earrings @ Collabor88 for July
*Poses: Geez by Grazia Horwitz
3rd picture:
Skin: [Aura] Helena – Love Notes – Caramel by Tyr Rozenblum
*Hair: >TRUTH< Ashlee Streaked - fairyfloss by Truth Hawks
*Sunglasses: MG - SunGlasses - Milano Cats-Eye 40's by Maxi Gossamer @ Fameshed for July
*Necklace: [HANDverk]Coral Pendant Necklace by Daphne Klossovsky @ Fameshed for July
*Blouse: Zaara : [Mesh] Ashima Blouse *ivory* by Zaara Kohime
*Shorts: Zaara : Denim shorts *ivory* by Zaara Kohime
*Pose: Magpie by Echo Davi
Location: {Zaara}
Continuing with my photoshop adventures this summer, I decided to focus on learning how to enhance the eyes this week. I love looking at a picture and the first thing that pops out at me are the eyes. So I found this really cool tutorial on youtube however, it’s one of those speed tutorials. He’s not talking about what he’s doing, he just does it and you just got to be quick and follow along. I did my best by pausing often and making the video screen as big as I could. I did learn a lot from this one, especially with the application of the eyeshadow, that was very neat. I hope you guys are able to follow along with it like I was, if not, I can try and type it out for you, lemme know!
I’m kinda totally in love with this dress. This is like the perfect “Berry” dress. It’s red, it’s poofy, it’s just so pretty. I adore it! You can find it at Fairy Tales at the Chantkare booth.
I’m not wearing any accessories in this post. I’m not a big accessory person in RL either, well, unless it’s big heavy traditional indian jewelry. And rings, I love my rings! But I just felt like wearing any jewels would take away from this look and make it less sexy, for me anyways. But then again, I’m not a stylist! :P
Also, this sim is just gorgeous. I found it on koinup and it’s definitely one of my favorite places to shoot now. And you can rez! TY sim owners that let us rez stuff, I truly love you for it! <3
Let me know if there's any good photoshop tutorials you might know of or things you might want me to cover. I'm going to try and learn something new each week!
Credits:
*Skin: PXL Faith Olive By Hart Larsson (not released yet)
Hair: =DeLa*= Mesh Hair “Moelleux” Dark Brown 3 by Kuranosuke Kamachi
*Dress: Chantkare Oscar Enchantment Gown by Applonia Criss (Available at Fairy Tales)
*Poses: Diesel Works by Rogan Diesel
Location: Neva River
