[SKETCHi]

[h1]Bruising[/h1]
Here is an example of what we will be making.


Click here for the original image I used. Special thanks to mcelb1200 at MacGeneration.net.

1. Burning.
 a. Open your photo.
 b. Duplicate the background layer, you never want to work on the original layer.
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 c. Select the Burn tool
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 d. Using a large soft brush, zoom in and begin brushing around where you want the bruise to be. I chose to put it around his eye.
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2. Color.
 a. Make a new layer and call it Bruise Color 1.
 b. Set your foreground color to 3E3E6D.
 c. Brush around the same area as you burned.
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 d. Open the Blending options for the Bruise Color 1 layer. Use these settings:
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 e. Set your background color to 86901B.
 f. Make a new layer and call it Bruise Color 2. Place it under the Bruise Color 1 layer.
 g. Again, brush the same area. This time, only paint the center of the bruise and in any shadows on the person in the photo.
 h. Now, switch your foreground and background colors and paint the highlights of the bruise.
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 i. Open the Blending options for the Bruise Color 2 layer. Use these settings:
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 j. One more color layer to add, this will be for the darkest purple in the bruise. Make a new layer and call it Bruise Color 3, put it under the Bruise Color 2 layer.
 k. Switch your foreground and background colors back. Paint just the most inner part of the bruise, the darkest shadows on the photo of the person. Feel free to add a little more yellow if you think it needs it.
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 l. Open the Blending options for the Bruise Color 3 layer. Use these settings:
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3. File > Save...

Finished! That was easy wasn't it?

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Bruising PSD

[RichT]

Another nice photo manipulation tutorial from SKETCHi. Good job, bro.

[Kenshin Ikari]

sorry kid.... looks fake

[Starchild]

Yup Nice tut, here's the pic of my 6 month old as requested

[foxshox]

haha awesome.. maybe a bit to dark, but still good hahaah, im calling CPS

[ZT]

omg lol, nice

[Oli-G]

Nice tute... a bit too spread out, doesn't seem to follow the contour of the face, but I guess if you get hit by a wrecking ball that would be the case!

[ZT]

meh.. maybe the eye would be a little red, lol

[Cre8iv Mynd]

this tut now on pixel2life....good job sketchi!

[SKETCHi]

It's doing really well on P2L too. It's got almost double the amount of clicks as the one below it.

[ZT]

pwned

[serega]

Hello
i have a problemm
Step 2
a new layer is transparent and i can`t brush on this
Help me please
Thank you

[SKETCHi]

Uh... there should be no reason why you aren't able to brush on it.

[serega]

but something make it wrong
Sorry

[SKETCHi]

I can't really help you... the only reason I could think of for something like this happening is the layer is locked or invisible.

Here are a couple images that might help, make sure your layer looks like Layer 1 in the diagram.