As promised here’s a short Photoshop tutorial I’ve put together that shows how you can spice up the background in your portrait shots by first of all adding a ‘spotlight’ effect behind your subject. Also for those of you who like to use coloured gels on your backgrounds in the tutorial I show how you can fake this look very simply and very quickly.
As I use Photoshop CS5 the first part of the tutorial shows how the effect can be created using tools only found in CS5 such as the Refine Mask command, however I also show how you can create a similar effect just as quickly using CS4 or earlier versions by making use of Blend Modes.
As always any feedback / comments are welcome so please feel free to make use of the comments section below.
In the mean time have a great weekend.
Enjoy
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Photo Shoot & Technique: Female Model Head Shots » Glyn Dewis Blog - [...] Friday I posted a video tutorial called ‘Colouring the Background‘ and this is the technique I used to add the spotlight behind Claire as well as the blue [...]
Glyn - Hey Lloyd, you’re very welcome mate; glad you like them
Thanks for dropping by and commenting,
Glyn
Lloyd Barnes - Thanks for some very useful tips - should save me a lot of time
Glyn - @Neil…Excellent, glad you like it mate. Check out Calvin’s added extra tip in the comments section re changing the HS layer blend mode to colour…works a treat!
Cheers, Glyn
Glyn - Hey Calvin,
Thanks so much for dropping by and for the added tip; really appreciate it mate
I’ll definitely pass that on.
Hope all is well with you,
Glyn
Calvin - Hi
I used a similar way for my projekt photographer.
But i change the blendmode of the color layer into “color” for a better result.
But many ways are possible
lg Calvin
Neil Holmes - Spot on tip Glyn, I will use this to update the way I change H/S backgrounds
Cheers Neil.