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The goal of this tutorial is to create a very subtle goth effect. Just like the one on the left. I rate this tutorial as a simple one, and you only need a strong basic understanding of Photoshop to complete it. Keep in mind that effect I've made here can be achieved by a large variety of methods. Methods described below guide you through one of the many ways to acheive this effect. You should also remember that you do not need to follow this tutorial exactly step by step. Try to experiment with values of tools and filters mentioned below, you might always come up with a very interesting effect of your own. Let's start then. First you will need to find an appropriate decent quality image, no doubt you have one in mind. This tutorial uses the face of Eden Dawn from Eden-stock.  Open the image you want to edit. Resolution of the image I'm working on is 1000 x 1333. Remember that if the resolution of our image differs greatly you should adjust sizes /strengths of tools /filters you'll use later. We will concerntrate on the face but don't crop the image now. You should do it at the end. At this stage you probably don't know or aren't sure exactly how you want the whole composition to look like in the end. In this case I want the face and the rest of the body against a black background. So I've painted black all the area I want to be black. To paint edges near the face I've used a brush size of 20 and a hardness set to 50%. Use burn tool to feather areas of the image like the hair and dress into the black Before
 
SkinWe will begin with some basic touch-up. Name the layer 'backup' grab your clone stamp, set it's diameter to 20-30. Make it very fuzzy and begin with removing any unwanted imperfections from the face. Things like scars, spots, etc. If your picture is a poor quality one or has small grain all over itself. You can also try to remove it by using the blur tool or by duplicating the layer, blurring the whole duplicate, applying a layer mask to it and using this mask to reveal only areas that need to be blurred. Make a copy of the 'backup' layer, name it 'face' now you can lock the 'backup' layer because from now we will only edit some fragments of it later and we will not edit the 'backup' layer itself.
Let's begin with that 'dream' effect. Make a copy of the 'face' layer. Use gaussian blur to blur it and call the layer 'blur' (I've used a 7.0 pixel radius in gaussian blur) Change the blending mode from normal to screen. Now adjust the opacity to about 60% (set the value to what you think gives a good looking effect) Now make another duplicate of the 'face' layer. Place it on top of the other layers. Name it 'overlay' and change it's blending mode to overlay. The picture should gain some gentle contrast - don't forget about tweaking the opacity of the 'overlay' layer. I've used 50% opacity. Now you will have to make the skin more pale and remove some unnecessary shadows from the face. To do this we will use the dodge tool. I've set the range to the midtones, exposure to about 30% and size to 90. As always this value depends on how pale you want the skin to be. Make sure your active layer is 'face' layer. Start brushing with dodge tool over the skin. Avoid dodging over the lips, eyebrows, eyelashes etc. Now you can easily tweak the look of the skin by just changing the opacity level of the layers you have made. We will use a similar technique for the lips.
LipsCreate a new layer set named 'lips set.' Change the whole set opacity to something near 70% Inside it create hue/saturation adjustment layer with saturation set to -100. That will desaturate the whole image. Fill the layer mask of this adjustment layer with black. Now take a white soft brush and paint on the layer mask over the lips - so that only lips are desaturated. Now ctrl+click on that mask layer to give us selection over the lips. Save that selection. Next create another adjustment layer above the previous one. Only this time make it brightness/contrast adjustment layer. Set it to something like:
 
If you had selection over the lips activated, the adjustment layer should already have a mask. If not just create a layer mask identical to the previous adjustment layer mask. Now load the lips section again and go back to the 'backup' layer, copy lips and paste them into the same place on the new layer. Name that layer 'multiply' and set the layer blend mode to multipy. Now we have three layer which are responsible for the color of the lips. By tweaking their opacity values and/or internal values of adjustment layers we can easily adjust the look of the lips. Play around with them for optimal effect. Don't forget that you can also tweak opacity of the whole 'lips set' layer set. And there you have it, nice lips!
EyesFirst let's correct the eyebrows. On this picture they are already very dark but we can still make them a bit darker. Take your burn tool, set it to around 30, exposure to about 10-20% and range to midtones. Now stroke the eyebrows, remember to have the 'face' layer as the active layer. You can always play around with the sharpen tool, with it's mode set to darken, this can give a quite nice effect. Still on your 'face' layer as active take the burn tool with low exposure, make it very fuzzy and work on the area between the eyebrows and the eyes themselves. Now all you have to do is decide what to do with the iris. You can either leave it the way it is, modify it a little or even replace it with a whole new, more detailed iris. As for the picture I'm using the original brown iris look good but we will modify them using a rather simple method. Take the dodge tool, set it to 20-30% opacity, size around 15 and set it to soft. Now brush circles on the 'face' layer, over the irises to give them more depth. And there you have it, Enjoy! More Articles:
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