Soft and dreamy movie effect - 14 September 2010

5:56 PM

Soft and dreamy movie effect

With few simple steps your pic can get a special effect like its in a movie scene. We will create a soft , dreamy effect on the face also make it stand out with warm color from the background darkened.

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This effect is suitable to close-up portrait photographs.

1. Duplicate your pic. Apply photo filter. Its to make the face have warm tone. If your model face is dark or warm, skip this step or lower opacity.

Then apply Gassian blur with 10 px. Set this layer to Multipy 50%

2. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E. Choose Filter- Distort - Diffuse glow ( i set background color to fbd0d0).

3. Apply Gassian blur with 4px and lower opacity to 50%.

4. Apply Lens Correction:

5. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E. Use Ellipse Marque tool to create a selection around the model face, set feather = 20. Select Inverse we have:

Choose Image - Apply Image:

Press Ctrl+L to adjust levels , increase dark green tone that is popular in movie effect:

Choose Select - Inverse again then apply Photo filter from Image - Adjustment:

Ctrl+D to deselect we have final effect:

Some tips for this tutorial:
- You should use warm tone ( warm pin, warm yellow...) for Photo Filter steps.
- If you want any of your model face part is lighted up by Diffuse glow, create selection around it and set right feather ( 10-20) then you can apply it and with correct parameters ( dont try only my parameters ).
- If you dont want diffuse glow effect to affect the background and any unwanted parts, make selection for only the part you want to apply it, copy it onto a new layer . After Diffuse glow step merge two these layers then you can use Lens correction filter.
- You can choose another color for Diffuse glow depending on your pic ( but light color recomended)
- When use apply image in step 5, change opacity to fit your pic. Make selection for any parts that are still in light and apply image again till you feel ok.

Views: 35991 | Added by: Admin | Tags: Photo effect, Dreamy, Effect, Photoshop tutorial, Soft, movie, Portrait

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Total opinions: 29

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1 CRK (2010-09-15 9:00 AM)

wow! beautiful ^^
love this

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2 Admin (2010-09-15 2:42 PM)

thanks , im glad to hear it .
Good day my friend

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3 Rhoden (2010-09-15 4:19 PM)

nicely done, very beautiful .. its what i expect of u.................
you rock jenny!!

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4 Admin (2010-09-15 10:21 PM)

Thanks you very much Rhoden. I'll try to make my next posts better. Im glad you come here again and we can exchange more words . Best wishes to you

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5 Rhoden (2010-09-16 4:00 PM)

i will be waiting for hte next one.. i love your tuts.. keeep it up

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6 Hoàng Tiến (2010-09-17 11:55 AM)

Welcome! you try to help me make this work offline <Night's feeling>
Upcoming birthday of my girlfriend, I want to give her style photographs <Night's feeling.> you try to help me. I thank you very much!

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7 Melissa (2010-09-18 2:20 AM)

Hi Jenny,
I just bumped into ur tutorial on soft and dreamy movie effect but you didn't specify which program u used to get dat result can u kindly mail it to me and pls in details tanx a lot for sharing this it so nice of you.

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8 Admin (2010-09-18 10:04 AM)

@Rhoden: thanks
@Hoàng Tiến: i will .
@Melissa: thanks, i use photoshop cs2.

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9 Hoàng Tiến (2010-09-18 11:28 PM)

you is my great hope, I always believe from you!

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10 Jack (2010-09-22 8:17 PM)

Good tutorial again from you....
we have included your tutorial in our website as i informed you before have a look at this link
http://www.deepetch.com/photoshop_tutorials

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11 Admin (2010-09-22 9:40 PM)

@Jack: im looking at it, thanks for regarding my tutorials . Best of success for you and your site

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12 shabnam (2010-09-28 4:33 PM)

hi I visited your long time ago, I really liked it. Now I think it is quite changed if I m not wrong. I really like your tuts.
http://www.clippingimages.com/

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13 Admin (2010-09-28 5:17 PM)

Yes, u r right, i changed my theme :D. Of course i still remember you who had left many comments on my site. I just surprised to find you are a girl

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14 gamk (2010-09-29 7:07 PM)

dear! very nice amazing tutorial amazing, awesome

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15 Admin (2010-09-29 8:28 PM)

Thank you , i appreciate your footprint

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16 sheena (2010-10-11 10:02 PM)

Hi very fantastic tutorial. I really like it awesome

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17 Admin (2010-10-11 10:16 PM)

Thank you sheena for nice words, it means a lot

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18 shakthi (2010-10-15 1:09 AM)

your tutorial is very nice.. i tried using my photo and its superb.... thank u

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19 dian (2010-10-15 5:07 PM)

nice tutor..like this

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20 Admin (2010-10-15 9:56 PM)

@shakthi: thanks for visiting and letting me know it ... sweet
@dian: thank you

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21 Lai (2010-11-23 8:52 AM)

I have a like picture and I tried it with CS5 but it didn't look at good. Anything different between cs4/cs5? I followed step by step..

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22 Admin (2010-11-23 8:42 PM)

which steps are you confused about? btw, i dont know much about cs4/cs5. I use CS2.

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23 nayeem (2011-06-14 4:21 PM)

hi this good

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24 Admin (2011-06-17 5:21 PM)

thanks

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25 Fotoclipping (2012-02-11 2:00 PM)

Wow! Its nice, excellent tutorial.
http://Fotoclipping.com/

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26 Admin (2012-02-13 4:55 PM)

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27 Raam Krrish (2012-03-24 1:48 PM)

Awesome!!! These Tutorials are really very helpful!! Keep posting More!!

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28 Admin (2012-03-25 3:48 PM)

thanks, will try to update oftener

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29 foto clipping (2012-07-23 4:52 PM)

Nice effect....

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