Zombie Photo Manipulation Techniques in Photoshop
The zombie genre of television shows, movies, and games has risen dramatically in recent years, and so has the desire of fans of this genre to create their own zombies. Software required: Photoshop CC v14.2.
What you'll learn
The zombie genre of television shows, movies, and games has risen dramatically in recent years, and so has the desire of fans of this genre to create their own zombies. So much so that websites and mobile applications have been created to do just this with your photos. You'll soon see that there is no better place to do this than inside Photoshop. In this tutorial we'll learn a variety of different techniques to help you accomplish the infection of your own photos with the end result being a believable zombie. We'll learn how to manipulate the pose of a subject making them feel much more lifeless. Next, we'll learn how to add things like wounds, bite marks, and damage to their body to make it appear that they were infected. From there, we'll begin to paint details that would be difficult to get by manipulating existing information in our photos. Finally, we'll color correct and retouch our subject to fit back into the original image. After going through this training, you'll have some great ideas about how you can add a zombie infection to your own photos. Software required: Photoshop CC v14.2.
Table of contents
- Getting Started Removing the Subject from the Background 8m
- Refining Our Mask for the Hair 7m
- Manipulating Our Model's Pose with Puppet Warp 7m
- Manipulating Our Model's Pose with Liquify 7m
- Manipulating the Leg Pose 7m
- Changing Facial Features with Liquify 7m
- Beginning to Tear up the Clothes 8m
- Detailing Torn Areas 8m
- Painting Dirt on the Clothing 7m
- Planning out Areas of Decomposition 8m
- Cloning Texture Onto Areas of Torn Flesh 8m
- Painting Areas Around the Wounds 8m
- Beginning to Manipulate the Eyes 8m
- Painting the Sclera and Iris 7m
- Painting Details of the Face 8m
- Refining Facial Details 8m
- Adding Additional Dirt and Blood 6m
- Patching up the Background 7m
- Beginning Color Corrections 7m
- Finishing Touches 8m
About the author
Eddie began teaching creative professionals over ten years ago for Digital Tutors. In 2014 Digital Tutors was acquired by Pluralsight and he continued his focus on creating high quality training for artists in both the film and games industries. With a background in graphic design and illustration Eddie has always been focused on visual appeal. This can be seen through his courses in which he shares secrets for achieving production level quality for concept art, illustrations, textures, mater... more