Spring Breakby Kriss Skorjanec



Usually we soften portraits, but not this time. We are going to crack it up. Big time..

1. Open the image in Photoshop and duplicate it. Now set the new layer to Linear Dodge. This gives our portrait more vivid colors.


2. Let’s get even more Contrast and Dynamic. Create a new Adjustment layer „ curves „ . Make sure you have the Channel set to RGB and slightly give the Contrast a little Boost.


3. To add more Contrast hold down the [ALT] Key and click in the layers window between the Curves layer and the layer beneath ( in our case it’s called Layer 1 )


4. Okay. Now starts the fun part of our project. Let’s take our texture and place it in our PS document right on top of the other layers. Set the layer mode to multiply.



5. Now we want to get rid of the red colors in our work. That’s an easy one. We go Just beneath our texture layer and add another Adjustment layer. Create a new Adjustment layer -> Hue/ Saturation. Now take the Saturation down to -100.