Doom City, a strip cover - Photoshop Tutorial

“Doom City” Requirements: Photoshop CS or newer Difficulty: Medium +, Hard Time: 1,5 – 2 Hours Outcomes: Resources: You will need some pictures for this tutorial. ( City, man, clouds, office, wood ) Okay, let’s start with the tutorial: 1. I opened up ‘city’ picture. 2. Placed ‘clouds’ picture. Transformed it to fit my picture properly. 3. Now […]

“Doom City”

Requirements: Photoshop CS or newer

Difficulty: Medium +, Hard

Time: 1,5 – 2 Hours

Outcomes:

Outcome ( CityofDoom )
Outcome ( CityofDoom_table )

Resources:

You will need some pictures for this tutorial. ( City, man, clouds, office, wood )

City
Clouds
Human back
Office
Wood

Okay, let’s start with the tutorial:

1. I opened up ‘city’ picture.

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2. Placed ‘clouds’ picture. Transformed it to fit my picture properly.

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3. Now I used Polygonal Lasso Tool ( L ) to make selection of few highest buildings on the picture.

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4. After that I right clicked on my selection > select inverse. Now add layer mask. Little button next to New Layer in Layers pallet. Voila, now your clouds don’t interrupt buildings on the picture.

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5. Now using soft round black brush I brushed these parts with lower opacity to make the blending softer.

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6. Ctrl+L brings up Levels window, I played around with gamma ( middle triangle ) and White ( lower right triangle ). After you are satisfied click OK.

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7. Now make new layer ( ‘Sky shadow’ ) and using white-to-nothing gradient make a vertical line like shown on pic.

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8. Now open up ‘office’ pic.

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9. Using Polygonal Lasso Tool ( L ) select windows.

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10. Delete.

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11. Put your office picture in the previous document.

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12. Using Burn Tool ( O ) burn out these areas to make them darker.

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13. Now you can crop your picture using Crop Tool ( C ) and make it bigger.

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14. Hide office layer. Make a new layer. Go on Image > Apply Image.

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15. Ctrl + T to transform it. Right click > Flip vertical to mirror it. Transform it something like shown on picture.

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16. After that you can delete unwanted parts, lower it’s opacity and I blurred it a bit with Gaussian blur. It’s up to you.

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17. Make a new layer. CTRL + Left Click on icon near office layer to make a selection. Now use soft white brush to paint highlighted areas.

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18. After finished, put it on 18-20% opacity.

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19. Select windows using Magic Wand Tool ( W ).

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20. On new layer fill that selection with white color and put on low opacity. ( 14% )

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21. After that do 19. And 20. Step again but this time after that go Filter > Noise > Add noise.

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23. CTRL + Left Click on office layer icon.

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24. Now using black-to-nothing gradient make shadows like shown.

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25. Now cutout man in ‘man’ picture and bring it to your document.

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26. Ctrl + Left Click on man layer icon. Gradient it like in previous steps ( ex. 24. )

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27. Create new layer. Fill it with white rectangle.

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28. Type in some text. I used Broadway font.

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29. Again type some text. Save your outcome as .jpg. ( File > Save As.. *jpg )

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30. Now open up ‘wood’ picture in separate document.

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31. Place your outcome.

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32. Duplicate your layer, select it and bring up levels window. ( CTRL + L ). Put both of these values to 0 to make it black. After that blur it a bit.

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33. Merge those two layers. ( Select them and CTRL + E )

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35. Duplicate your layer. CTRL + T again. You should have little circle inside your transform lines, drag it to lower left corner.

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36. Now rotate it a bit.

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37. Now repeat this process unitl you are satisfied.

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38. Make a new layer below everything except background.

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39. Fill it with black-to-nothing gradient, like I did.

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40. I selected every picture and moved them a bit to center.

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41. New layer. Image > Apply image. Filter > Sharpen. Filter > Sharpen. Edit > Fade Sharpen ( about 25%)

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42. Duplicate layer. Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur.

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43. Now add a layer mask and fill it like this. White-to-black reflected gradient. ( gradient is on mask )

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44. New Layer. Image > Apply Image. White-to-nothing radial gradient. Put it in the middle. Put it on soft light to around 70% opacity.

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45. Now on the last step I used some Color Lookup adjustment wich you can only find on Photoshop CS6. It’s called filmstock_50.dl.

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If you wish to download .psd for both files:

That’s it. You have learned how to manipulate with different images to produce one realistic and you have learned how to put that newly created image in space.

Thank you and be sure to check out some other tutorials!

Continue reading here: Create a Beautiful Dark Texture in Photoshop

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