Arquitecto

Step 1 |
Lets start by taking a look at the photo I’ve chosen for today’s tutorial. This is a great shot by the photographer Tinebra from Italy. I was looking for something sort of dark, sexy andmildly gothic to begin with for this particular effect because the genre seems to suit the effect well. Not to say that you couldn’t apply this effect to a photo of your two year old niece frolickingin a garden of tulips. |
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Step 2 |
Lets begin by duplicating our Background layer by pressing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J), not only to preserve the original image incase we need to come back to it,but because we’re about to apply 4 quite destructive filters to the image and we’ll need to have a copy of the original underneath for masking purposes later. I’m going to call this layer Grunge. ||
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The first thing I want to do is really stir up the lines in the photo and to do this we’ll be using the Ripple filter. Choose Filter>Distort>Ripple from the main menu and set theAmount to 999% and leave the size at Medium.For the sake of scrolling and download speed I’ll only be showing you a portion of the image as we go through these steps. |
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Second we’lluse the Diffuse filter to rough up the edges of our ripples by choosing Filter>Stylize>Diffuse from the main menu. Leave the mode set to the default which is Normal and click OK. |
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Third lets soften the effect of the Diffuse filter with a slight blur by choosing Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur from the main menu and using a radius of 0.5 pixels. |
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Step 6 |
And thelast thing we’re going to do here is randomize the mess just a little more using the Splatter filter by choosing Filter>Brush Strokes>Splatter from the main menu and then using the settings 9and 4. |
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Step 7 |
For the sake of reference, here’s what my image looks like so far. |
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Step 8 |
Obviously we don’t want the entire image to look like this, so lets click the Add...