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Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Photoshop CS5

Select now the Soft Round brush of black color and Opacity of 50%.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Create a new layer above the girl’s layer, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between new created layer and girl’s layer in the Layers panel to create a clipping mask. Use the brush along the head’s contour, painting the artifacts left from the background’s removing.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next result:

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Select once again Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Hue/Saturation this time.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Drag the slider to the left to decrease the Saturation and the Lightness of the color range.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Select the next brush form Seu_Davi set downloaded before:

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
On a new layer we’ll draw several spots using black color.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Next try to combine the brushes from c130_splatter set downloaded before, to draw new spots on a new layer. The color is #282320

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
It’s the result we should get:

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the effect of pressed-in texture.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Select now the Soft Round brush with Opacity of 10% and black color.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Now we have to make the next shown arbitrary brushstrokes:

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Set the Blending mode to Soft Light for this layer.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Duplicate this layer (Ctrl+J) to increase the effect:

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Select once again Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections for raising the contrast.

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next result:

Create a Dramatic and Surreal illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Finished!

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