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Dragon Effect in Photoshop

Hello, guys, I am Vaibhav and today I am going to show you a tutorial on Dragon Effect in Photoshop. Last time I discussed Instagram Earlybird Filter.

Stock: http://random-acts-stock.deviantart.com/art/Viking-2012-stock-49-285935962

In this tutorial, I am going to use Adjustment Layers, High Pass Filter and several other tools.

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STEP 1

The first thing that we need to do is to change the hue and saturation. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation. Decrease the Saturation to -24 and increase the Hue to +7.

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Your image should look like this.

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STEP 2

Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Curves. Make the graph looks like the one shown below.

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Your image looks like the one shown below.

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STEP 3

Now we are going to stack all the layer onto a new layer. Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E/Cmd+Shift+Opt+E. You will find a new layer at the top of the layer panel which is basically a combination of all the layers.

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Go to Filter>Other>High Pass. Increase the Radius to 15.5. Press OK.

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Your image should look like the one shown below.

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STEP 4

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay.

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Do give the image more grunge look, duplicate the High Pass layer by pressing Ctrl+J/Cmd+J and reduce the opacity to 62%.

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Your image should look like the one shown below.

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STEP 5

Time to give the image a bit Yellowish tint. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Photo Filter. Change the Filter to Warming Filter (85) and increase the Density to 25%.

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Your image should look like the one shown below.

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STEP 6

Time to create a new layer. Press Ctrl+Shift+N/Cmd+Shift+N. On this layer, we are going to use the Dodge and Burn tool to make the image more grunge. Go to Edit>Fill. Choose the Use as 50% Gray and press OK.

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Change the Blending Mode of the new layer to Overlay.

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STEP 7

Grab the Burn Tool from the tool panel. Change the Range to Midtones and the Exposure to 37%.

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Apply Burn tool on the areas which are highlighted with Red color.

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Now grab the Dodge tool and apply Dodge tool on the areas highlighted with Red color.

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And now you are done.

Thank you for reading this tutorial. We’ll meet again next week.

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