From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Establishing trails of blood - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Establishing trails of blood
In this exercise, I'll how you how to create the effect of blood, or if you prefer, raspberry syrup, oozing out of a guy's lips. I've saved my progress as Lips with blood .psd, found inside the 07_refine folder. I'm going to switch over to the Channels panel, scroll down to the bottom of the list, and you'll see an alpha channel that I've created for you in advance called blood trails. Now, I created this effect entirely using the Brush tool, along with the Smudge tool; that's it. So it's another one of these painterly effects; that's why I figured I'd just go ahead and give it to you, but to give you a sense of how I rationalize this particular mask, I'll go ahead and press the Tilde key, so we can see the mask is a Rubylith overlay on top of the composite image. And you'll see that I went ahead and painted along the upper right ridge of the bottom lip, and I smeared that brushstroke into the lips using the Smudge tool, as I say. And then I went ahead and painted a few blood trails…
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Introducing the Refine Mask command6m 58s
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Automated edge detection8m 23s
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Turning garbage into gold6m 19s
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Starting with an accurate selection7m 11s
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Selection outline in, layer mask out7m 48s
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Matching a scene with Smart Filters4m 29s
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Cooling a face, reflecting inside eyes4m 45s
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Creating a layer of ghoulish skin4m 28s
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Adding dark circles around the eyes5m 20s
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Creating a fake blood effect5m 38s
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Establishing trails of blood7m 40s
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Integrating the blood into the scene7m 3s
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The ultimate in masking automation1m 6s
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