Spring Breakby Kriss Skorjanec


6: Adding shadows. To make our work look more 3D we will have to boost the shadows, espacially in the mouth and between the teeth and the upper lip.

For this I like to work on a layer, that contents all the visual layers beneath, just like a screenshot. That gives you even another advantage: you can adjust the intensity of the shadows with the opacity of that layer. Make sure you have the top layer selected. Hold down [shift] + [Ctrl] + [alt] press [N] , then [E]. That will give you a layer that contains all the other visible layers.


7. Select the Burn tool [O]. Range: Midtones. Exposure: 10 – 20 %. Choose a round brush with soft edges and start burning up the shadows. The blue lines show you where you should boost the shadows.


8. To get more life in our picture we can give more color to our grass. So let’s add another Adjustment layer on top of our composition. New Adjustment Layer -> Hue/ Saturation. Instead of Edit: Master we choose -> Edit: Greens. And now we increase the Saturation for about + 20.



9. Well, we did it. Now we can flatten the image and sharpen it up a little. After the flattening we go to Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask....

The settings you choose depends on what you want to do with your project. If you want to print it, i recommend to sharpen it a bit more than it looks perfect on your screen.


Now your effect is complete, I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.


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