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How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Hard Round brush.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to represent many small ellipses of the color #FCF29A (brush Opacity – 70%).

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Make a copy of the last made layer containing the triangle. Choose after that the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command and change the copies’ sizes, placing them as below. Change the Gradient Overlay style:

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide the next zones on the triangle as shown.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Make a copy of the recently made triangle’s layer. Remove the mask out of the layer’s copy and choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing them as below. Insert several changes on the Gradient Overlay style of the layer’s copy.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

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How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the layer the same way we did before. Choose also the Soft Round brush of black color (brush Opacity – 15%).

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide out the next zones on the layer containing the triangle.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Make one more copy of the triangle’s layer and remove the mask out of the copy. Use the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to place the copy as on the next picture. Change the Gradient Overlay parameters.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the layer again and use the same Soft Round brush of black color to hide out the next zones on the triangle’s layer.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in 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.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape of white color as shown.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and then press CTRL+I to Inverse the color. Choose the Soft Round brush of white color.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Paint in the mask using this brush to hide out some zones on the rectangle’s layer the same way as it is shown on the picture.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in 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.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next triangle as shown.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Stroke.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Using the same tool, we must represent another triangle of smaller size of the color #FEF49B. Set Fill to 80% for this layer.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

Finally we have to create a new layerand draw a small circle using Hard Round brush of #835DA6 color.

How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

 

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How to Create a Colorful Abstract Photo Manipulation in Photoshop CS5

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