It's a small present for one of my friend who had gone... to America (did I got you there?). I made it for DIM2's Final Flash project (well actually it turns out to be useless, since our project was a video/flash project). You might find this style is quite identical to Sadako (that's Samara in the American version. "Of what?" you might ask, "of the super hit movie/novel "the ring"" I will answer, "where did you've been all these time?", I might continue). Actually, it's quite easy to make a ghost image. All I did was quite simple and doesn't require much Photoshop skill. Well, might as well telling you the steps that I took. First, change the color, if the picture not dark enough adjust it to make it darker depend on how your eye see it you might adjust. Then, do a little modification to the model. What I did was adjusting the color of the skin to make it brighter until I receive a white-ish skin like what you see, for the othe part especially the hair, will be made to be darker (even darker than the environment, the main purpose for me in doing this is to hide away parts of her face that haven't been covered by the hair). I also use glow but with black instead of bright yellow to create an evil aura around her. Next, I use one of my favourite affect to create the dirt on her shirt ( quite easy, new layer> gradient> cloud filter> overlay> done). Last thing I did was to use burn tool to make the photo a little more scarier (I don't think it's a wise move since the picture doesn't look any better, but then, I'm too lazy to fix it, sorry). Oh, one thing I haven't said, the "ghost" should be created in a different layer from the background, it's much easier that way. Last thing, the original image:
Should you find this post confusing and quite annoying to read, that's because I made it so (just kidding, this is the first time I try to do something like this so...). If I receive any request for a clearer version, I will gladly re-edit it (so please, please don't request it, I'm a very lazy guy, again, just kidding). One last thing, I want to express my thanks to Giang who is the model of this photo. Every best wishes to you.
It's a small present for one of my friend who had gone... to America (did I got you there?). I made it for DIM2's Final Flash project (well actually it turns out to be useless, since our project was a video/flash project). You might find this style is quite identical to Sadako (that's Samara in the American version. "Of what?" you might ask, "of the super hit movie/novel "the ring"" I will answer, "where did you've been all these time?", I might continue). Actually, it's quite easy to make a ghost image. All I did was quite simple and doesn't require much Photoshop skill. Well, might as well telling you the steps that I took. First, change the color, if the picture not dark enough adjust it to make it darker depend on how your eye see it you might adjust. Then, do a little modification to the model. What I did was adjusting the color of the skin to make it brighter until I receive a white-ish skin like what you see, for the othe part especially the hair, will be made to be darker (even darker than the environment, the main purpose for me in doing this is to hide away parts of her face that haven't been covered by the hair). I also use glow but with black instead of bright yellow to create an evil aura around her. Next, I use one of my favourite affect to create the dirt on her shirt ( quite easy, new layer> gradient> cloud filter> overlay> done). Last thing I did was to use burn tool to make the photo a little more scarier (I don't think it's a wise move since the picture doesn't look any better, but then, I'm too lazy to fix it, sorry). Oh, one thing I haven't said, the "ghost" should be created in a different layer from the background, it's much easier that way. Last thing, the original image:
Should you find this post confusing and quite annoying to read, that's because I made it so (just kidding, this is the first time I try to do something like this so...). If I receive any request for a clearer version, I will gladly re-edit it (so please, please don't request it, I'm a very lazy guy, again, just kidding). One last thing, I want to express my thanks to Giang who is the model of this photo. Every best wishes to you.
1 comment:
Really nice effect - and a great explanation of how to get it. Thanks a lot.
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